Latest articles by Rich Stanton
Did they hit a nerve? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's response to 'authoritarian' Anthropic's annihilation of ads-supported AI doesn't make me trust it more
AI wars How did we get here.
Valve veteran imperiously scorns reports that it's secretly finished Half-Life 3 and moving devs to other projects: 'They've been done for months! They just sit on the game! They're just relaxing!'
News Chet Faliszek, who's previously worked on the series, doesn't have much time for the latest rumour.
Skyrim lead says the $100 videogame may not be the best idea: 'I personally think game developers would be wise to not push the prices higher, but gamers are a special breed... they will pay for what they want'
News "I don't think players look at the hours of experience per price of the title once it gets past a certain number."
Skyrim lead designer says the next Elder Scrolls should look at how Baldur’s Gate 3 made things ‘meaningful,’ because ‘the gaming community has spoken’
News "Bethesda games have maybe pulled back from doing that a little bit."
Bethesda veteran says less RPG complexity in the Elder Scrolls series is good, actually: 'We got rid of attributes in Skyrim and you know who complained? Almost nobody'
News “I led the charge on that, to be frank.”
Skyrim lead praises Todd Howard for trying 'desperately' not to micromanage and be a ‘bottleneck’, even though he still 'does what he calls seagulling where he swoops in and changes things'
News "He tries desperately not to."
Top football manager reminds football media that real football 'is not Football Manager, unfortunately'
News Would probably be nice if Tottenham could reload their season though.
Beyond Good and Evil 2 somehow survives the bloodbath at Ubisoft: creative director says he's 'saddened' by the layoffs and cancellations, but the 19-year project is 'unaffected'
News "We remain committed and focused on delivering a remarkable game for our players to enjoy."
The Linux community now has a succession plan for when Linus Torvalds checks out, after an apparently uplifting discussion about 'our eventual march toward death'
News "In the absence of an agreed-upon process, the community would find itself playing Calvinball at an awkward time."
Fatal Frame 2 is one of the scariest horror games I've played, and it sounds like the remake is tweaking all the right things
News It's also getting a demo just before launch.
Roblox comments on ongoing missing child case and the statement is, uh, not great
News Read the room.
North Korea's crypto thieving went into overdrive in 2025, with one firm estimating it's responsible for roughly 60% of the $3.4 billion stolen in total
News The regime may have made off with more than $2B last year.
Microsoft says sure, it'll hand over your encrypted data to the FBI: 'The lesson here is that if you have access to keys, eventually law enforcement is going to come'
News "Microsoft believes customers are in the best position to decide how to manage their keys."
I asked Garry Newman if he really was going to rename s&box as Garry's mod 2 after an overwhelming poll and he joked 'people are d*ckheads'
News "People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazi party Jeremy. You can't trust people."
Master Chief voice actor says he never wants AI cloning his hunky tones: 'That's where we cross a line… I don't like it, and I would prefer that it not be done'
News Hail to the Chief.
Gabe Newell caps off Steam Machine week by taking delivery of a new $500 million superyacht with a submarine garage, on-board hospital and 15 gaming PCs
News "We knew we were asking for unusual things," says Newell, "and Oceanco embraced it with open arms."
David Bowie's time on Omikron, and his madcap scheme to buy up a load of old satellites and 'relaunch Ziggy Stardust from space'
News "Something about it didn’t gel enough for people even to try it. I think David was a bit pissed off."
'Super Bowl for Excel nerds' crowns the king of the spreadsheets in Vegas, complete with championship belt and adoring crowd: 'You'd never see this with Google Sheets'
News Who's going in the spreadsheet bin?
A Valve engineer fixed 3D lighting so hard he had to tell all the graphics card manufacturers their math was wrong, and the reaction was: 'I hate you'
News Ken Birdwell was all about "getting the lighting right."
Shuhei Yoshida, the man behind the most savage gaming roast of all time, leaves PlayStation after 31 years: 'It's been a dream job'
The Sony veteran has been with PlayStation from the start and played a major role in its evolution.
US Air National Guardsman gets 15 years for leaking military secrets on a Minecraft Discord server: 'The scope of his betrayal is breathtaking… the amount of damage immeasurable'
News "To feed his own ego and impress his anonymous friends, Teixeira caused exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States."
Phil Spencer says Microsoft's PC-heavy lineup this year is 'historical' and an 'anomaly', so don't get used to it
News "We want our games playable across as many screens as possible."
Arcane creators admit the show was never meant to run for 5 seasons, it was a joke that got out of hand: 'Nothing but tomfoolery'
"It was never the plan for it to last five seasons."
