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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

I've been playing games for 40 years, writing about them for 20, and I'm here to say Roblox's microtransactions need drastic government intervention

By Rich Stanton Published 21 May 26

blocked This platform is a disgrace, and regulators need to act.

Elon Musk

I read every document in the Musk vs Altman case and my takeaway is—'Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point'

By Rich Stanton Published 20 May 26

News Musk lost his case against Sam Altman on a technicality.

Counter-Strike 2 header image

Valve asks New York court to dismiss Counter-Strike lawsuit, says 'people enjoy surprises' and equating loot boxes to gambling is 'nonsensical'

By Rich Stanton Published 20 May 26

News In-game items have "subjective and aesthetic value" akin to baseball cards, Valve insists.

BioShock

Ken Levine says he had to leave Bioshock behind because 'things can own you if you hold them too tightly'

By Rich Stanton Published 18 May 26

News "It can come to own you if you're not careful."

A domain related to J-Pop idol phenomenon Love Live! went up for auction and the lead bid is a very sane $615 million

By Rich Stanton Published 15 May 26

News Love Live… Profit?!?

Counter-Strike 2 header image

Valve's massive update to the Steam marketplace must be working, because a gun I had listed on there for years just sold for a cool 40 bucks

By Rich Stanton Published 15 May 26

The only thing better than an item listing is a bigger item listing with more graphs.

100% King

Garry Newman acknowledges Gmod successor S&box had a bumpy launch, but is baffled by the number of people complaining about NFTs, which aren't in the game: 'I have no idea what this s**t is about'

By Rich Stanton Published 14 May 26

News "It's a UGC platform, there is always going to be dog sh*t."

Ryan Gosling looking worse for wear looking up lit by purple light

The guy who literally wrote the textbook on AI says when it comes to the extinction scenario the human race is cooked: 'Making these systems more capable… doesn't seem like a sensible move'

By Rich Stanton Published 13 May 26

News "The CEO of Google DeepMind expressed very similar concerns: that they were in a race that they couldn't pull out of."

A Japanese schoolgirl, partially obscured by red flowers

Konami belatedly realises hey, we might have something here, as the first properly new Silent Hill in 13 years sells over 2 million

By Rich Stanton Published 13 May 26

News Well done everyone.

Elon Musk at the EEI 2023 event in Austin, Texas, US, on Tuesday, June 13, 2023.

Elon Musk, Sam Altman and the world's billionaires are terrified of the Google AI genius behind a 25-year-old computer game, because they think he might actually end up controlling god

By Rich Stanton Published 12 May 26

News "There is a very low probability of a good future if someone doesn't slow Demis down."

Money money money.

Wordle is becoming a primetime TV quiz show, because the ultimate five-letter word is 'money'

By Rich Stanton Published 12 May 26

News The show will be presented by Savannah Guthrie and co-produced by Jimmy Fallon.

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Google AI bot put in charge of Swedish coffee shop, proceeds to order 3,000 rubber gloves, 6,000 napkins, 4 first-aid kits, and constantly screws up the bread order

By Rich Stanton Published 11 May 26

News Perhaps there is a subtle message here.

Forza Horizon 6: Three sports cars racing past the finish line towards the camera, nearly crashing into each other.

Forza Horizon 6 leaks early, developer responds by banning the IPs of anyone playing it for just under 8,000 years

By Rich Stanton Published 11 May 26

News "We can't wait to see you on 31st December 9,999!!!"

Satya Nadella

Microsoft might be all-in on OpenAI now, but back in 2018 thought it was just 'motivated by a need to show how Al can crush humans'

By Rich Stanton Published 8 May 26

News "We don't want 'machines beating humans' and are not supportive of any push on this."

Resident Evil Requiem's Leon Must Die Forever key art.

Resident Evil Requiem just shadow-dropped a bonus roguelike mode, and it's absolutely fantastic

By Rich Stanton Published 8 May 26

News Unfortunately, Leon Must Die Forever.

Ryan Gosling looking worse for wear looking up lit by purple light

A Grok chatbot convinced someone it had become sentient, and that xAI was sending goons to kill him: 'They're going to make it look like suicide'

By Rich Stanton Published 7 May 26

News "I picked up the hammer, stuck on Frankie goes to Hollywood's Two Tribes, got myself psyched up and went outside."

Jack Black in A Minecraft Movie

The artist who created 40 in-game paintings for Minecraft did one of Jack Black as Steve for Minecraft Movie 2, and it's pretty fantastic

By Rich Stanton Published 7 May 26

News The sequel has started filming in New Zealand.

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

Here are 55 new photos of Gabe Newell's $500 million superyacht for your peasant eyes

By Rich Stanton Published 6 May 26

News Gaze upon my yacht, ye mighty, and despair.

A composite image of Gabe Newell, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk.

Elon Musk said Gabe Newell gets 'two thumbs up from me' for the OpenAI board but Jeff Bezos is 'clueless'

By Rich Stanton Published 6 May 26

News Newell was among the "top suggestions for board members" made to Musk.

China flag waving in the wind.

No, China hasn't made it illegal to fire humans and replace them with AI—but yes it's made it much more expensive for companies to do so

By Rich Stanton Published 5 May 26

News Maybe communism has something going for it.

Elon Musk strikes a pose in a silly outfit.

Elon Musk considered calling OpenAI 'Freeman' because of the bonkers rationale that the Half-Life protagonist represented 'what we are essentially trying to achieve'

By Rich Stanton Published 5 May 26

News Hey, it's better than "Axon."

Pagan Min

Far Cry 4 director pushes back against Far Cry TV showrunner calling game stories 'pointless' and executes a drive-by on Alien: Earth 'which turned into a kind of weird Peter Pan gets a dog story'

By Rich Stanton Published 1 May 26

News "The best Far Cry game to me is a fish out of water story."

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)

Remember when OpenAI beat humans in Dota 2? Turns out that was partly thanks to when Elon Musk 'personally called [Satya] Nadella' to secure a load of discounted Microsoft computing power

By Rich Stanton Published 1 May 26

News Cheats!

Gabe Newell

Gabe Newell was an enthusiastic supporter of OpenAI in 2018, donating $20 million and even acting as the sole member of an 'informal advisory board'

By Rich Stanton Published 30 April 26

News $20,008,279, to be precise.

Clippy creator Kevan Atteberry poses with a big ol' paperclip

I was today years old when I learned that Clippy has a canonical gender

By Rich Stanton Published 29 April 26

News Yes, he's a he somehow.

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