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
Reports of World of Warcraft's death may have been greatly exaggerated, as Blizzard's GM proudly wheels out a graph showing it's doing really well—but no hard numbers
By Rich Stanton published
news Things that make you go wow.
V Rising gets the crossover every self-respecting vampire wants: Castlevania's Simon Belmont is coming to try and kill you
By Rich Stanton published
news Anyone fancy a stake?
South Park: Snow Day review—A fun co-op distraction, but the novelty soon wears off
By Rich Stanton published
Urine trouble Worthy co-op hijinks that don't drag on, but also a reminder that South Park has been used much better in past games.
Mass Effect 5 exec producer re-emphasises to fans that all the game's senior leads are trilogy veterans, and here's who they are
By Rich Stanton published
news Mass Amnesia.
Helldivers 2 CEO says they'll 'never' turn off friendly fire: 'We would have to turn off bullet damage against enemies as well'
By Rich Stanton published
news Now get back down to that planet, soldier.
After a leaker puts XDefiant delay down to chasing COD, the game's producer can't resist responding with a 'major eye roll'
By Rich Stanton published
news Game development is hard.
The new Windows update made me think I'd installed malware, but it was just Microsoft's latest attempt to try and fool me into using Bing
By Rich Stanton published
news This should be illegal.
Ark's animated series surprise drops with a ludicrously stacked Hollywood cast ready to get chomped by dinos
By Rich Stanton published
news Michelle Yeoh! Russell Crowe! Vin god-damn Diesel!
Respawn finally comments on Apex cheating scandal that saw pro players' games hijacked, basically says nothing at all
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Metal Gear Delta's producer says 'we're doing our best' to create a 'modern-style Metal Gear' but the core design will remain unchanged
By Rich Stanton published
news "It's our mission for those of us who remain at Konami to preserve Metal Gear for future generations."
Denuvo's new feature can invisibly watermark your game footage so publishers can track down leakers
By Rich Stanton published
news Don't you care about "the overall integrity of the content distribution process"?
Halo co-creator that joined EA to work on Battlefield 'gut punched' as publisher lays off entire team: 'I don't have anything positive to say about EA'
By Rich Stanton published
news Ridgeline games had been working on a narrative-focused Battlefield entry.
Stardew Valley's dripfeed of 1.6 patch notes reaches artistic levels of absurdity: 'You can now drink mayonnaise'
By Rich Stanton published
news "Some day I could make pickles edible."
Konami releases David Hayter-fronted video series about Metal Gear's incredible legacy, doesn't mention Metal Gear creator, director, and writer Hideo Kojima once
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news Boss? Boss?!?
Palworld's made so much money it's 'too big for a studio with our size to handle', but CEO says it's not going to go public or sell up yet: 'I want to make multiple small games'
By Rich Stanton published
news Won't someone think of the shareholders!
Palworld dev says 'a game without a multiplayer mode just doesn’t feel right in the era we live today'
By Rich Stanton published
news "Colleagues were against leaving useless bodies in the game, but I pushed it through."
As the Warner Bros suits begin to blame Suicide Squad for everything but the weather, the newly released game's price is almost slashed in half
By Rich Stanton published
news Meanwhile, the most telling thing about the game's latest update is how little there is to say
Paradox says where we're going, we don't need no marketing plan as it just shows off and chats about the unannounced Europa Universalis 5
By Rich Stanton published
news Where we're going is 15th-19th century Europe.
Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?'
By Rich Stanton published
news Newell remained magisterially above the fray.
French Counter-Strike team re-sign star French player, celebrate by sticking him on a golden gun-throne in front of the Eiffel Tower because they're French
By Rich Stanton published
news At least he's not in a beret carrying some onions.
CCP reveals first details of survival game set on a single shard in the EVE universe, but wait: here comes the blockchain
By Rich Stanton published
news Would you Adam and EVE it.
Shellshocked Helldivers 2 players so stunned by indiscriminate friendly fire from Stratagems they've begun to question if the Automatons are behind it
By Rich Stanton published
news "That thing deliberately shoots at you without a doubt in my mind."
Helldivers 2's latest major order gives players the chance to make a sector permanently bug-free with a planet-sized pesticide system
By Rich Stanton published
news Quarantine those bugs to death.