Latest articles by Rich Stanton
Snake voice actor David Hayter was befuddled by Metal Gear Solid's convoluted plot: 'I'd be like 'what does this mean?' and they'd say 'just say it''
News "That's what makes Metal Gear, Metal Gear."
Mass Effect Andromeda actor says the game got a 'bum rap' from 'chuds' and was 'done dirty by a publisher expecting too much from it'
News "Their love of hate sealed the deal."
This composer just remade the entire soundtrack of the first Elder Scrolls game: 'It really gives you a sense of wonder and adventure'
News "Arena has always been a game that I hold close to my heart,"
This Skyrim mod that makes NPCs AI chatterboxes just got a massive overhaul
News "I am floored by this mod."
Turkiye passes legislation to tighten its grip on Steam and other gaming platforms, but it's social media companies that really get it in the neck
News And how.
Crypto-scammers are offering cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz safety for Bitcoin, and Iran's already fired on at least one
News At least no-one's been hurt, yet.
Slay the Spire 2 dev says an early idea was to actually reduce the card pool, but players hated it: 'We need new stuff!'
"They were not jiving with that at all."
Hideo Kojima went to Valve and like a master troll took a photo of himself with 3 Half-Life gravity guns
And the orb!
Fallout co-creator says non-linear design is all about never assuming how players will act, illustrates his point by fantasising about an NPC guard he seems to really hate
News "Your job is to provide a nice map for them to play on."
Fallout: New Vegas dev says it could've been set in New Orleans because 'the vibe was so cool, the flavor was cool, [it would've been] so sweet'
News Get Obsidian on that New Orleans idea stat.
Rust has a 'horse shield' meta problem, so one enterprising player has come up with a 'horse baiting' meta to fix it
News There's always someone with a bigger stick.
If you can't get enough Troy Baker in your videogames, here's the good news: he's going to start making them
News Wonder if they'll star Troy Baker?
Even after Ubisoft confirmed 'gaming's worst-kept secret' of an Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake, it somehow manages to leak another trailer before the reveal
News I suppose it kinda fits a pirate game.
Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow'
News I'm not quite sure that would be the biggest issue.
Apparently the name of one of the most famous RPG series of all time was a last-minute band-aid: 'I don't think he knew what it meant any more than we did'
News "In the end, we had a game that almost didn't resemble our original idea at all."
Design lead on the first Elder Scrolls fondly recalls the days when Bethesda would finish a game, then the team would 'assemble boxes, inserts and use the heat gun' to get it shipped
News "We even spent time shrink-wrapping the games ourselves."
Hero modder gives all of Skyrim's jarls unique sitting poses on their fancy thrones
News I'd never even noticed they all sat the same.
An oldie but a goodie: John Carmack once told us Quake Arena 'was my favourite id Software game… always the one that I looked at as a pure game'
News The game just "stands the test of time."
If you're finding Resident Evil: Requiem a bit scary, why not mod it to make the enemies tiny
News Makes Chunk look adorable.
Todd Howard says Starfield's NG+ was misunderstood and defends Bethesda's new U-turn on how it works: 'You can tell us if we've done our job right'
News "We want to be trying to do more things that update the game where it's going to change the next 100 hours."
World Championship Wrestling once spent millions on a gimmick ripping off Mortal Kombat’s Sub-Zero, before Midway threatened to sue and WCW immediately gave up: 'We were gonna lose big, like real big'
News Glacier was not hot stuff.
Today I learned that Excel incorrectly assumes 1900 was a leap year, and Microsoft will never fix it because the whole house of cards would collapse
News Luckily, most users don't build spreadsheets focused on 1900.
Double Dragon and Kunio-kun creator Yoshihisa Kishimoto dies at 64
News "Please continue to enjoy my father's works and have a good time."
Gabe Newell stepped back from game design during Portal 2's development, because 'he always wanted to be part of the team, but being Gabe and being in his position, that never really worked'
News Portal 2 project lead Josh Weier says Newell didn't want to impose his ideas on designers, but being one of them wasn't an option.
