Latest articles by Rich Stanton
Ken Levine says he had to leave Bioshock behind because 'things can own you if you hold them too tightly'
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
News Love Live… Profit?!?
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
The only thing better than an item listing is a bigger item listing with more graphs.
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'
News "It's a UGC platform, there is always going to be dog sh*t."
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'
News "The CEO of Google DeepMind expressed very similar concerns: that they were in a race that they couldn't pull out of."
Konami belatedly realises hey, we might have something here, as the first properly new Silent Hill in 13 years sells over 2 million
News Well done everyone.
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
News "There is a very low probability of a good future if someone doesn't slow Demis down."
Wordle is becoming a primetime TV quiz show, because the ultimate five-letter word is 'money'
News The show will be presented by Savannah Guthrie and co-produced by Jimmy Fallon.
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
News Perhaps there is a subtle message here.
Forza Horizon 6 leaks early, developer responds by banning the IPs of anyone playing it for just under 8,000 years
News "We can't wait to see you on 31st December 9,999!!!"
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'
News "We don't want 'machines beating humans' and are not supportive of any push on this."
Resident Evil Requiem just shadow-dropped a bonus roguelike mode, and it's absolutely fantastic
News Unfortunately, Leon Must Die Forever.
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'
News "I picked up the hammer, stuck on Frankie goes to Hollywood's Two Tribes, got myself psyched up and went outside."
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
News The sequel has started filming in New Zealand.
Here are 55 new photos of Gabe Newell's $500 million superyacht for your peasant eyes
News Gaze upon my yacht, ye mighty, and despair.
Elon Musk said Gabe Newell gets 'two thumbs up from me' for the OpenAI board but Jeff Bezos is 'clueless'
News Newell was among the "top suggestions for board members" made to Musk.
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
News Maybe communism has something going for it.
Elon Musk considered calling OpenAI 'Freeman' because of the bonkers rationale that the Half-Life protagonist represented 'what we are essentially trying to achieve'
News Hey, it's better than "Axon."
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'
News "The best Far Cry game to me is a fish out of water story."
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
News Cheats!
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'
News $20,008,279, to be precise.
I was today years old when I learned that Clippy has a canonical gender
News Yes, he's a he somehow.
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'
News "Over 750,000 people use the mod on a daily basis, and over 1.5 million of you use it every week!"
