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Rich Stanton

Rich Stanton

Senior Editor

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

Gabe Newell in a Valve promotional video, on a yacht.

Marketing guy invents the concept of 'Real Steam' to explain why 'magic' games, AKA good games, end up selling: 'Don't tell Valve'

By Rich Stanton Published 20 March 25

News The return of the Ministry of the Bleeding Obvious.

CS 1.6 remade in CS: Legacy.

A gorgeous ground-up remake of Counter-Strike 1.6 is on its way to Steam, and one of the game's original creators says 'it really gives me old vibes'

By Rich Stanton Published 17 March 25

News "Hopefully Valve allows this to get released without any issues…"

Money money money.

Valve tracked 1.7 million Steam users who joined in 2023 to see if they stuck around—they did, and they spent $93 million

By Rich Stanton Published 14 March 25

News Hot stuff.

Roblox CEO David Baszucki.

'Don't let your kids be on Roblox', Roblox CEO tells parents, before comparing himself to Walt Disney and declaring the platform 'the future of communication'

By Rich Stanton Published 13 March 25

News "I would always trust parents to make their own decisions."

The character Neil in Death Stranding 2, who here is posing like Solid Snake.

Hideo Kojima really just went 'screw it' and made Metal Gear Stranding

By Rich Stanton Published 10 March 25

News Snaaake?

A picture of Bowser behind jail bars.

Nintendo wins major French piracy case with EU-wide consequences: 'Significant not only for Nintendo, but for the entire games industry'

By Rich Stanton Published 6 March 25

News "Nintendo's message to consumers is not to download pirate copies of Nintendo games."

GTA 5 money

The Grand Theft Auto series has now sold over 440 million copies, and say g'day to Rockstar Australia

By Rich Stanton Published 3 March 25

News The studio will be renamed Rockstar Australia.

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Bungie's lawyers have to use fan videos of old Destiny 2 content in court because, well, it doesn't exist in-game anymore

By Rich Stanton Published 26 February 25

News A science-fiction writer’s Destiny 2 lawsuit has forced the lawyers to rely on YouTube.

rainbow six siege sledge

Ubisoft announces the 'biggest transformation in Rainbow Six Siege's history' for later this year, so big they're adding an 'X' to the name—But don't call it a sequel

By Rich Stanton Published 17 February 25

News I'm still just going to run around smashing through walls with the sledgehammer.

Doctor Strange in Marvel Rivals

Asked point-blank if they're trolling dataminers with fake characters, Marvel Rivals dev scoffs and says they'd 'rather spend our time developing the game'

By Rich Stanton Published 17 February 25

News Go on, put Ben Reilly in there.

David Bowie between microphones looking directly into the camera.

David Bowie's time on Omikron, and his madcap scheme to buy up a load of old satellites and 'relaunch Ziggy Stardust from space'

By Rich Stanton Published 14 February 25

News "Something about it didn’t gel enough for people even to try it. I think David was a bit pissed off."

CEO of Activision Blizzard, Bobby Kotick, speaks onstage during "Managing Excellence: Getting Consistently Great Results" at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on October 19, 2016 in San Francisco, California.

Bobby Kotick reckons the Warcraft film was 'a terrible idea' for Blizzard, and in the end 'was one of the worst movies I've ever seen'

By Rich Stanton Published 12 February 25

News "It took a lot of resources and distracted them."

Watch DOgs 2

Ubisoft's grudging crawlback to Steam continues with achievements for Watch Dogs 2 added a mere 9 years after release

By Rich Stanton Published 6 February 25

News Yes, it has one for petting dogs.

The Gulf of Mexico shown on a map.

Truly the dumbest timeline: Mexican president formally requests Google Maps does not re-name the Gulf of Mexico, jokes about renaming North America 'América Mexicana'

By Rich Stanton Published 31 January 25

News Google Maps says it's just following longstanding policy.

John McAfee

John McAfee is back from the grave as some sort of AI ghoul-slash-memecoin, and his widow's picking a fight with Elon Musk

By Rich Stanton Published 30 January 25

News Just an average day.

The brass balls on these guys: OpenAI complains that DeepSeek has been using its data, you know, the copyrighted data it's been scraping from everywhere

By Rich Stanton Published 29 January 25

News "Hypocritical little babies."

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Trevor's voice actor says he won't be in GTA 6, though would've liked a cameo where he got 'killed at the beginning'

By Rich Stanton Published 28 January 25

News "Pass the torch, stomp Trevor's head in, and sort of put an end to that."

Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, looks at the camera.

Tim Sweeney says Epic is losing billions fighting Apple and Google because it can afford to, jokes that 'we might run into serious financial problems after a couple more decades'

By Rich Stanton Published 24 January 25

News "So no regrets, though it’s been terribly costly."

Michael Jarman holds his Excel championship belt aloft.

'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'

By Rich Stanton Published 22 January 25

News Who's going in the spreadsheet bin?

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 13: Elon Musk attends the 2024 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on April 13, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)

Elon Musk admits account-boosting on PoE2 and Diablo 4 but says deal with it: 'What would I be apologizing for?'

By Rich Stanton Published 21 January 25

News Used his IRL loot button.

GTA 4 - Niko Bellic

GTA 5 mod recreating GTA 4's map nuked after 6 years of work because people noticed, and Rockstar insisted on a 'friendly takedown', if you know what I mean

By Rich Stanton Published 16 January 25

News Busted.

Valve dev says SteamOS isn't about killing Windows: 'If a user has a good experience on Windows, there's no problem'

By Rich Stanton Published 14 January 25

News "It's not a goal in itself to convert users who already have a good experience."

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Crytek went so overboard on the Crysis tech it created a whole blushing system, implemented nose shadows, and sent devs to photograph leaves in Haiti to get the translucency right: 'We went over bonkers on this one'

By Rich Stanton Published 6 January 25

News "The shader work that came out of this was mind-blowing at times."

A banana, on its own, in an orange void.

That Banana clicker game is somehow still one of Steam's most-played games, with 100K+ concurrents seeing it consistently outranking the likes of Call of Duty and Helldivers 2

By Rich Stanton Published 6 January 25

News GG Activision Blizzard.

Neuralink

In 2024 Elon Musk predicted that 'hundreds of millions' of people will have his brain chips within the next 20 years, so don't forget to hold him to it

By Rich Stanton Published 26 December 24

news Is a genuine brain-control revolution inbound, or is it just more tech bluster?

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