Latest articles by Rich Stanton
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.
Gabe Newell caps off Steam Machine week by taking delivery of a new $500 million superyacht with a submarine garage, on-board hospital and 15 gaming PCs
News "We knew we were asking for unusual things," says Newell, "and Oceanco embraced it with open arms."
A Valve engineer fixed 3D lighting so hard he had to tell all the graphics card manufacturers their math was wrong, and the reaction was: 'I hate you'
News Ken Birdwell was all about "getting the lighting right."
US Air National Guardsman gets 15 years for leaking military secrets on a Minecraft Discord server: 'The scope of his betrayal is breathtaking… the amount of damage immeasurable'
News "To feed his own ego and impress his anonymous friends, Teixeira caused exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States."
Phil Spencer says Microsoft's PC-heavy lineup this year is 'historical' and an 'anomaly', so don't get used to it
News "We want our games playable across as many screens as possible."
Arcane creators admit the show was never meant to run for 5 seasons, it was a joke that got out of hand: 'Nothing but tomfoolery'
"It was never the plan for it to last five seasons."
An AI version of a beloved British broadcaster who died last year is doing an 'autonomous' podcast series
Sir Michael Parkinson becomes Sir AI Parkinson.
Under pressure from pro-Israel group, Twitch bans several Arab streamers over a month-old TwitchCon panel
Somehow, this starts with hummus.
Dave the Diver creator says 'story DLC' is coming, jokes about expanding into a 'Dave cinematic universe' with new games
news "I also want to make separate games about each character to show how they met."
David Hasselhoff cracks out the old leather jacket and KITT from Knight Rider to tell gamers to 'grab your joysticks' and fight global warming
news Even if an 80s supercar arguing for climate action feels a tad ironic.
The first Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree patch nerfs the boss-melting explosive perfumes into the ground
news You can no longer Chanel true power.
Google's dumb AI answers increased its greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 50% in the last 5 years
news The company claims that AI will help solve the AI emissions problem.
