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

Sam Altman at the Integrated Review of the Capital Framework for Large Banks Conference at the Federal Reserve on July 22, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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

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AI wars How did we get here.

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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!'

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News Chet Faliszek, who's previously worked on the series, doesn't have much time for the latest rumour.

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The Dragonborn looking up and shouting
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'

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News "I don't think players look at the hours of experience per price of the title once it gets past a certain number."

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The Elder Scrolls VI
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’

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News "Bethesda games have maybe pulled back from doing that a little bit."

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The Dragonborn looking up and shouting
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'

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News “I led the charge on that, to be frank.”

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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)
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'

By Rich Stanton Published

News "He tries desperately not to."

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A football referee holding up a red card
Top football manager reminds football media that real football 'is not Football Manager, unfortunately'

By Rich Stanton Published

News Would probably be nice if Tottenham could reload their season though.

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Beyond Good and Evil 2 key art
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'

By Rich Stanton Published

News "We remain committed and focused on delivering a remarkable game for our players to enjoy."

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Linux Designer Linus Torvalds - stock photo. Linus Torvalds was the designer of the open-source operating system Linux.
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'

By Rich Stanton Published

News "In the absence of an agreed-upon process, the community would find itself playing Calvinball at an awkward time."

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Mio Amakura from Fatal Frame 2 remake with the camera zooming in on her face as she looks surprised
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

By Rich Stanton Published

News It's also getting a demo just before launch.

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A photo shows the logo of Roblox during the Gamescom video games trade fair at the Trade Fair Center in Cologne, western Germany, on the first day of the fair on August 20, 2025. The 2025 edition of the vast Gamescom trade fair in Cologne, Germany, had its opening night on August 19, 2025 and will be running from August 20 to 24, 2025. (Photo by Ina FASSBENDER / AFP) (Photo by INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images)
Roblox comments on ongoing missing child case and the statement is, uh, not great

By Rich Stanton Published

News Read the room.

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Government building in Kim Il-sung square, Pyongan Province.
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

By Rich Stanton Published

News The regime may have made off with more than $2B last year.

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An FBI agent using a comuter.
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'

By Rich Stanton Published

News "Microsoft believes customers are in the best position to decide how to manage their keys."

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G-Man’s Wobbly Walk from Garry's Mod
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'

By Rich Stanton Published

News "People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazi party Jeremy. You can't trust people."

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Halo Campaign Evolved's Master Chief
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'

By Rich Stanton Published

News Hail to the Chief.

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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

By Rich Stanton Published

News There's inevitably plenty of reaction, little of it good.

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You'll never guess what the 'Random Heart Attacks' mod for Red Dead Redemption 2 does

By Rich Stanton Published

News OK, maybe you will.

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LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 04: Executive Producer Todd Howard attends the UK Special Screening of "Fallout" presented by Amazon MGM Studios & Prime Video at White City Television Centre on April 04, 2024 in London, England. "Fallout" is launching exclusively on Prime Video on 11th April 2024.
Todd Howard says 'Fallout 5 will be existing in a world where the stories and events of the show happened or are happening'

By Rich Stanton Published

News Do I get to shred someone's face with a glass jug Todd? Todd?!?

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LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 04: Executive Producer Todd Howard attends the UK Special Screening of "Fallout" presented by Amazon MGM Studios & Prime Video at White City Television Centre on April 04, 2024 in London, England. "Fallout" is launching exclusively on Prime Video on 11th April 2024.
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'

By Rich Stanton Published

News "I think I'm best behind the camera."

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Epic Mickey
Disney quaffs the Kool-Aid with a $1 billion investment in OpenAI that will see its most iconic characters used to generate AI slop

By Rich Stanton Published

You ain't never had a friend like me.

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Ella Purnell as Lucy
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'

By Rich Stanton Published

News "We could have made a Fallout movie or Fallout TV show a decade ago⁠—we had certainly been asked."

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LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 17: Hideo Kojima attends the UK premiere of "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" at the BFI IMAX Waterloo on May 17, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)
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'

By Rich Stanton Published

News The man loves falling down virtual mountains.

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Protagonist Lucia Caminos in Grand Theft Auto 6.
Rockstar animator posts unseen GTA 6 clips in demo footage which is immediately nuked, but the internet just does not forget

By Rich Stanton Published

News Why steal cars when you can rent a bike?

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Garry's Mod
Garry's mod successor s&box goes open source and even opens up the finances, Garry says: 'Valve gave me my chance, I'm already rich, I don't want to f*ck anyone over'

By Rich Stanton Published

News "We can all win together."

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escape from tarkov hardcore wipe
Escape from Tarkov director says the launch week's wobbles were 'actual stress testing not only of our servers but also our mind and nerves'

By Rich Stanton Published

News Trying to Escape from "Mixed" reviews.

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