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

Slay the Spire 2 artwork
Slay the Spire 2 dev celebrates its instant success by reminding players to support 'small indie passion projects' like Marathon too

By Rich Stanton Published

News Just enjoy the joke for what it is.

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The Pokémon Company criticises Trump administration's use of its imagery in political memes, says Pokémon is apolitical, Trump spokesman uses decade-old Clinton post to accuse them of bias

By Rich Stanton Published

News "Our mission is to bring the world together."

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War Thunder
A War Thunder clip shared on social media as footage of the war in Iran racked up over 7 million views, and was even shared by the governor of Texas

By Rich Stanton Published

News The footage purports to show a US warship and Iranian fighter plane: but it doesn't.

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The Pip Boy from the Fallout series being the benevolent hacker he is
Captain Obvious time: The Fallout TV series has massively increased game sales, even for the '90s originals

By Rich Stanton Published

News Justice for Fallout: Tactics!

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Surreal Woman with occluded face and bikini reaching toward camera
Let it Die is dying, but offering players a onetime purchase to keep it alive offline

By Rich Stanton Published

News Grasshopper's weird tower-climbing roguelike is closing all online features in August.

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The guy from Deus Ex: Invisible War
Deus Ex: Invisible War wasn't what it should have been because the studio moved to an engine that was really built for Thief: 'A super-boneheaded call, very bad decision… it really tanked development'

By Rich Stanton Published

News "I wish we could redo that project and just stitch the maps together."

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Snake looks to camera wearing his eyepatch in Ground Zeroes.
Finally, you can play Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes inside Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain thanks to this mod

By Rick Lane Published

News Limb reattachment.

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Leon Kennedy mog
Capcom's latest Resident Evil promotional stunt is a bizarre fictional lawsuit from the Umbrella Corporation aimed at the makers of Cup Noodles

By Rich Stanton Published

News Apparently Umbrella Noodles are tasty, with a bit of itchy.

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The newly elected Pope Leo waves to the Vatican crowd.
Pope Leo's on the warpath about AI again, and this time he's telling off priests for using it to write their sermons: 'The Pope invited us to use our brains more'

By Rich Stanton Published

News I'm not Catholic, but this dude makes me think of converting.

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Box art for the original Resident Evil, showing a man with a weird face holding a shotgun.
Resident Evil director Paul W. S. Anderson says he's got no time for people who do game adaptations without playing them—'That's outrageous'

By Rich Stanton Published

News And also finds time to demolish that awful Doom movie.

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Resident Evil cover art
Resident Evil director Paul W.S. Anderson says the first movie doesn't adapt the games because it would ruin everything: 'Imagine watching Alien if, going into the cinema, someone told you they all die apart from Sigourney Weaver'

By Rich Stanton Published

"What I loved about Resident Evil, apart from the fact it was a great game, was it was clearly patterned on a series of movies that I had loved growing up."

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Resident Evil 4 Remake - Leon with a handgun
The best guns in Resident Evil 4 Remake

By Sean Martin Last updated

Good guns Cram your case with these parasite-murdering weapons in RE4.

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 04: Video game designer Todd Howard is seen arriving to The Inaugural Gotham TV Awards at Cipriani 25 Broadway on June 04, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images)
Todd Howard says AI's 'not a fad' but 'we're not using it to generate anything… that handcrafted human intention, is what makes things special, and that's where we want to be'

By Rich Stanton Published

News "You can't ignore it, in terms of it's coming, it's changing."

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The White House is a radioactive crater in Fallout 3 because there were no quests there, so why build it? 'It is our version of [Indiana Jones] shooting the guy rather than pulling out his whip and going into a fight'

By Rich Stanton Published

News "There was no gameplay around the White House."

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GTA Online
Rockstar celebrates official GTA mod support by nuking non-official mod platform

By Rich Stanton Published

News Can't we all just get along?

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Fallout TV series still
Bethesda originally thought Fallout 3's metro system should go all over the map, then realised running through miles of tunnels was dull as hell: 'Being realistic sometimes isn't fun'

By Rich Stanton Published

News Well, not with that attitude.

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Konami veteran and Bloodstained director Shutaro Iida.
Shutaro Iida, Konami veteran and programmer for the Castlevania and Metal Gear series credited as 'Curry The Kid', has died at the age of 52

By Rich Stanton Published

News Iida died on February 10

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An AI-generated image of an AI-generated space game, which features a crustacean theme.
This space MMO was coded by AI, is played by AI, and all us meatbags can do is watch them

By Rich Stanton Published

News SpaceMolt is a vibe-coded "living universe" where AI agents face off against one another.

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Yoji Shinkawa's artwork of Old Snake and Liquid Ocelot from MGS 4.
Konami got the main thing right with Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2, but it could and should have offered so much more

By Rich Stanton Published

Snaaake? A whole chunk of the series' history remains locked on PSP.

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The desk in Nutmeg, a football deck-building game.
Nutmeg is a brilliant concept that at its best is almost football Balatro, but boy is this a game of two halves

By Rich Stanton Published

Score draw A dream game with some nightmare trappings.

Score draw
Masters of Albion screenshot
Peter Molyneux's Masters of Albion looks like three games in one, but it also looks like none of them is any good

By Rich Stanton Published

News Jack of all trades, master of none.

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Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater - Gold camo
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater has taken the Metal Gear series to over 65 million games sold

By Rich Stanton Published

News You're pretty good.

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Fallout 3
Todd Howard says Bethesda really didn't expect people to hate the way Fallout 3 ended with a full stop: 'We thought this is Fallout, it’s great! People hated it!'

By Rich Stanton Published

News "I'll give us an average grade on [the fix]."

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Ryan Gosling looking worse for wear looking up lit by purple light
Anthropic AI's safety lead quits with epic vaguepost claiming 'the world is in peril', and so he's off to become 'invisible' and study poetry

By Rich Stanton Published

News Come find out about CosmoErotic Humanism.

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Fallout New Vegas
The Fallout VATS system was inspired by Burnout's crash mode of all things or, as Todd Howard puts it, 'imagine the car parts are, like, eyeballs and guts!'

By Rich Stanton Published

News "And that’s where you felt the stats of your character more than the run-and-gun."

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