Latest articles by Rich Stanton
Did they hit a nerve? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's response to 'authoritarian' Anthropic's annihilation of ads-supported AI doesn't make me trust it more
AI wars How did we get here.
Valve veteran imperiously scorns reports that it's secretly finished Half-Life 3 and moving devs to other projects: 'They've been done for months! They just sit on the game! They're just relaxing!'
News Chet Faliszek, who's previously worked on the series, doesn't have much time for the latest rumour.
Skyrim lead says the $100 videogame may not be the best idea: 'I personally think game developers would be wise to not push the prices higher, but gamers are a special breed... they will pay for what they want'
News "I don't think players look at the hours of experience per price of the title once it gets past a certain number."
Skyrim lead designer says the next Elder Scrolls should look at how Baldur’s Gate 3 made things ‘meaningful,’ because ‘the gaming community has spoken’
News "Bethesda games have maybe pulled back from doing that a little bit."
Bethesda veteran says less RPG complexity in the Elder Scrolls series is good, actually: 'We got rid of attributes in Skyrim and you know who complained? Almost nobody'
News “I led the charge on that, to be frank.”
Skyrim lead praises Todd Howard for trying 'desperately' not to micromanage and be a ‘bottleneck’, even though he still 'does what he calls seagulling where he swoops in and changes things'
News "He tries desperately not to."
Top football manager reminds football media that real football 'is not Football Manager, unfortunately'
News Would probably be nice if Tottenham could reload their season though.
Beyond Good and Evil 2 somehow survives the bloodbath at Ubisoft: creative director says he's 'saddened' by the layoffs and cancellations, but the 19-year project is 'unaffected'
News "We remain committed and focused on delivering a remarkable game for our players to enjoy."
The Linux community now has a succession plan for when Linus Torvalds checks out, after an apparently uplifting discussion about 'our eventual march toward death'
News "In the absence of an agreed-upon process, the community would find itself playing Calvinball at an awkward time."
Fatal Frame 2 is one of the scariest horror games I've played, and it sounds like the remake is tweaking all the right things
News It's also getting a demo just before launch.
Roblox comments on ongoing missing child case and the statement is, uh, not great
News Read the room.
North Korea's crypto thieving went into overdrive in 2025, with one firm estimating it's responsible for roughly 60% of the $3.4 billion stolen in total
News The regime may have made off with more than $2B last year.
Microsoft says sure, it'll hand over your encrypted data to the FBI: 'The lesson here is that if you have access to keys, eventually law enforcement is going to come'
News "Microsoft believes customers are in the best position to decide how to manage their keys."
I asked Garry Newman if he really was going to rename s&box as Garry's mod 2 after an overwhelming poll and he joked 'people are d*ckheads'
News "People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazi party Jeremy. You can't trust people."
Master Chief voice actor says he never wants AI cloning his hunky tones: 'That's where we cross a line… I don't like it, and I would prefer that it not be done'
News Hail to the Chief.
Rockstar baulks as a Charlie Kirk assassination mission is created in GTA Online, bans it and censors his name, but there's more out there
News There's inevitably plenty of reaction, little of it good.
You'll never guess what the 'Random Heart Attacks' mod for Red Dead Redemption 2 does
News OK, maybe you will.
Todd Howard says 'Fallout 5 will be existing in a world where the stories and events of the show happened or are happening'
News Do I get to shred someone's face with a glass jug Todd? Todd?!?
Todd Howard says he's been offered 'a whole bunch' of cameos in the Fallout show but won't be tempted: 'I don't want to distract'
News "I think I'm best behind the camera."
Disney quaffs the Kool-Aid with a $1 billion investment in OpenAI that will see its most iconic characters used to generate AI slop
You ain't never had a friend like me.
Senior Bethesda dev says the Fallout show works because Todd Howard wouldn't let the usual 'videogame directors' touch it: 'We want the best director, the best showrunner possible'
News "We could have made a Fallout movie or Fallout TV show a decade ago—we had certainly been asked."
Hideo Kojima says Death Stranding was 'too unique', OD's going to be 'completely different', but Physint's an espionage game so 'you can make it in your sleep'
News The man loves falling down virtual mountains.
Rockstar animator posts unseen GTA 6 clips in demo footage which is immediately nuked, but the internet just does not forget
News Why steal cars when you can rent a bike?
