Latest articles by Rich Stanton
Brendan Greene says AI content is ruining the internet because it's 'a loop, LLMs are scanning this junk, and then that becomes truth… it's like a race to the middle of sh*t'
News "How can you trust stuff that says at the bottom you need to fact-check all the answers I'm giving you?"
Sega says yeah you're all real nice about our games—but you sure ain't buying them
News "High evaluations have yet to translate into a further increase in unit sales."
Valve says Steam users downloaded 100 exabytes of games in 2025, and are averaging 274 petabytes of installs and updates every day
News Today I learned what an exabyte is.
Meta's latest legal wheeze is to insist that pirating books is fair use, actually
News Rather than, y'know, outright theft.
Slay the Spire 2 dev celebrates its instant success by reminding players to support 'small indie passion projects' like Marathon too
News Just enjoy the joke for what it is.
The Pokémon Company criticises Trump administration's use of its imagery in political memes, says Pokémon is apolitical, Trump spokesman uses decade-old Clinton post to accuse them of bias
News "Our mission is to bring the world together."
A War Thunder clip shared on social media as footage of the war in Iran racked up over 7 million views, and was even shared by the governor of Texas
News The footage purports to show a US warship and Iranian fighter plane: but it doesn't.
Captain Obvious time: The Fallout TV series has massively increased game sales, even for the '90s originals
News Justice for Fallout: Tactics!
Let it Die is dying, but offering players a onetime purchase to keep it alive offline
News Grasshopper's weird tower-climbing roguelike is closing all online features in August.
Deus Ex: Invisible War wasn't what it should have been because the studio moved to an engine that was really built for Thief: 'A super-boneheaded call, very bad decision… it really tanked development'
News "I wish we could redo that project and just stitch the maps together."
Finally, you can play Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes inside Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain thanks to this mod
News Limb reattachment.
Capcom's latest Resident Evil promotional stunt is a bizarre fictional lawsuit from the Umbrella Corporation aimed at the makers of Cup Noodles
News Apparently Umbrella Noodles are tasty, with a bit of itchy.
Pope Leo's on the warpath about AI again, and this time he's telling off priests for using it to write their sermons: 'The Pope invited us to use our brains more'
News I'm not Catholic, but this dude makes me think of converting.
Resident Evil director Paul W. S. Anderson says he's got no time for people who do game adaptations without playing them—'That's outrageous'
News And also finds time to demolish that awful Doom movie.
Resident Evil director Paul W.S. Anderson says the first movie doesn't adapt the games because it would ruin everything: 'Imagine watching Alien if, going into the cinema, someone told you they all die apart from Sigourney Weaver'
"What I loved about Resident Evil, apart from the fact it was a great game, was it was clearly patterned on a series of movies that I had loved growing up."
The best guns in Resident Evil 4 Remake
Good guns Cram your case with these parasite-murdering weapons in RE4.
Todd Howard says AI's 'not a fad' but 'we're not using it to generate anything… that handcrafted human intention, is what makes things special, and that's where we want to be'
News "You can't ignore it, in terms of it's coming, it's changing."
The White House is a radioactive crater in Fallout 3 because there were no quests there, so why build it? 'It is our version of [Indiana Jones] shooting the guy rather than pulling out his whip and going into a fight'
News "There was no gameplay around the White House."
Rockstar celebrates official GTA mod support by nuking non-official mod platform
News Can't we all just get along?
Bethesda originally thought Fallout 3's metro system should go all over the map, then realised running through miles of tunnels was dull as hell: 'Being realistic sometimes isn't fun'
News Well, not with that attitude.
Shutaro Iida, Konami veteran and programmer for the Castlevania and Metal Gear series credited as 'Curry The Kid', has died at the age of 52
News Iida died on February 10
This space MMO was coded by AI, is played by AI, and all us meatbags can do is watch them
News SpaceMolt is a vibe-coded "living universe" where AI agents face off against one another.
Konami got the main thing right with Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2, but it could and should have offered so much more
Snaaake? A whole chunk of the series' history remains locked on PSP.
