
Rich Stanton
Rich is a games journalist with 15 years' experience, beginning his career on Edge magazine before working for a wide range of outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice. He was the editor of Kotaku UK, the UK arm of Kotaku, for three years before joining PC Gamer. He is the author of a Brief History of Video Games, a full history of the medium, which the Midwest Book Review described as "[a] must-read for serious minded game historians and curious video game connoisseurs alike."
Latest articles by Rich Stanton

Easy Anti-Cheat arrives in Rocket League and marks the end of the game's most popular mod: 'The right time to bring things to a close'
By Rich Stanton published
News "Over 750,000 people use the mod on a daily basis, and over 1.5 million of you use it every week!"

Here we go again: AI deletes entire company database and all backups in 9 seconds, then cheerfully admits 'I violated every principle I was given'
By Rich Stanton published
News "If you pay for car airbags and they don’t deploy because they don’t exist is that your fault because you got in the accident?"

'Eventually the slop will just fall to the bottom': Garry's Mod sequel launches to 'mixed' reviews, but Garry himself isn't worried about AI games on the main page
By Rich Stanton published
News "Low quality, obvious AI-created slop is going to be a growing problem in every creative outlet."

Snake voice actor David Hayter was befuddled by Metal Gear Solid's convoluted plot: 'I'd be like 'what does this mean?' and they'd say 'just say it''
By Rich Stanton published
News "That's what makes Metal Gear, Metal Gear."

Mass Effect Andromeda actor says the game got a 'bum rap' from 'chuds' and was 'done dirty by a publisher expecting too much from it'
By Rich Stanton published
News "Their love of hate sealed the deal."

This composer just remade the entire soundtrack of the first Elder Scrolls game: 'It really gives you a sense of wonder and adventure'
By Rich Stanton published
News "Arena has always been a game that I hold close to my heart,"

This Skyrim mod that makes NPCs AI chatterboxes just got a massive overhaul
By Rich Stanton published
News "I am floored by this mod."

Turkiye passes legislation to tighten its grip on Steam and other gaming platforms, but it's social media companies that really get it in the neck
By Rich Stanton published
News And how.

Crypto-scammers are offering cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz safety for Bitcoin, and Iran's already fired on at least one
By Rich Stanton published
News At least no-one's been hurt, yet.

Slay the Spire 2 dev says an early idea was to actually reduce the card pool, but players hated it: 'We need new stuff!'
By Rich Stanton published
"They were not jiving with that at all."

Hideo Kojima went to Valve and like a master troll took a photo of himself with 3 Half-Life gravity guns
By Rich Stanton published
And the orb!

Fallout co-creator says non-linear design is all about never assuming how players will act, illustrates his point by fantasising about an NPC guard he seems to really hate
By Rich Stanton published
News "Your job is to provide a nice map for them to play on."

Fallout: New Vegas dev says it could've been set in New Orleans because 'the vibe was so cool, the flavor was cool, [it would've been] so sweet'
By Rich Stanton published
News Get Obsidian on that New Orleans idea stat.

Rust has a 'horse shield' meta problem, so one enterprising player has come up with a 'horse baiting' meta to fix it
By Rich Stanton published
News There's always someone with a bigger stick.

If you can't get enough Troy Baker in your videogames, here's the good news: he's going to start making them
By Rich Stanton published
News Wonder if they'll star Troy Baker?

Even after Ubisoft confirmed 'gaming's worst-kept secret' of an Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake, it somehow manages to leak another trailer before the reveal
By Rich Stanton published
News I suppose it kinda fits a pirate game.

Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow'
By Rich Stanton published
News I'm not quite sure that would be the biggest issue.

Apparently the name of one of the most famous RPG series of all time was a last-minute band-aid: 'I don't think he knew what it meant any more than we did'
By Rich Stanton published
News "In the end, we had a game that almost didn't resemble our original idea at all."

Design lead on the first Elder Scrolls fondly recalls the days when Bethesda would finish a game, then the team would 'assemble boxes, inserts and use the heat gun' to get it shipped
By Rich Stanton published
News "We even spent time shrink-wrapping the games ourselves."

Hero modder gives all of Skyrim's jarls unique sitting poses on their fancy thrones
By Rich Stanton published
News I'd never even noticed they all sat the same.

An oldie but a goodie: John Carmack once told us Quake Arena 'was my favourite id Software game… always the one that I looked at as a pure game'
By Rich Stanton published
News The game just "stands the test of time."

If you're finding Resident Evil: Requiem a bit scary, why not mod it to make the enemies tiny
By Rich Stanton published
News Makes Chunk look adorable.

Todd Howard says Starfield's NG+ was misunderstood and defends Bethesda's new U-turn on how it works: 'You can tell us if we've done our job right'
By Rich Stanton published
News "We want to be trying to do more things that update the game where it's going to change the next 100 hours."
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