Latest articles by Rich Stanton
Best Shooter 2023: Remnant 2
The Gotys Gunfire Games' subversive sequel was our favourite shooter of the year.
Interpol busts 3,500 alleged cybercriminals and scammers, seizes $300 million of ill-gotten proceeds, and warns about the rise of the NFT 'rug pull'
news "This represents the savings and hard-earned cash of victims."
Best Fighting Game 2023: Street Fighter 6
The Gotys Capcom's flagship series retains its crown.
Obsidian pitched doing a Fallout: New Vegas but for The Elder Scrolls, Bethesda said nah we're good thanks
news "I never got the impression Bethesda was happy with Fallout: New Vegas' reception."
Diablo 2 player seethes for 8 months after hardcore betrayal, befriends one of the gankers before obliterating their character out of nowhere: 'Now we're even'
news This is the kind of pettiness you can only admire.
'Disgruntled' engineer gets fired for porn on work laptop, claims he was watching the Matrix, revenge-hacks employer's IT network, lies to the secret service, goes directly to jail
news Neo way.
Creator behind hugely popular Skyrim co-op mod gives up on the Starfield version of it because, drum roll please, 'this game is f***ing trash'
news "I didn't realize this until after I actually started playing the damn game a week after launch."
Cyberpunk 2077 comes full circle with Sad Keanu meme
news The 2.1 update quietly added a moment of internet history.
YouTuber who deliberately crashed plane for content then lied about it is jailed for six months, even he admits it's the 'right decision'
news Also thanks the judge for "giving me a second chance at life."
GTA 6's first trailer has recreations of a load of real viral video moments in it, and it looks like Rockstar's version of TikTok will play a big part
news Please don't call it DickTok.
The Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer has smashed through 60 million YouTube views in 12 hours
news Y'all got any more of that once-in-a-lifetime reveal trailer?
Elden Ring's producer says development of its Shadow of the Erdtree expansion is 'going well', compares it to Bloodborne with 'new battles and new characters'
news "It's still a little ways off."
Footballer Ronaldo faces $1bn+ class action lawsuit for promoting Binance to unwary customers, and he's still doing it
news The forward says he and Binance are currently "cooking something up".
Activision felt 'now was the time' to put Call of Duty's DMZ mode out to pasture, says play zombies instead
news Is this the end of the extraction shooter trend?
That new version of Ark has disabled crossplay for Windows 10 users because you're a big old bunch of cheaters
news Welcome to Jurassic lark.
Datajack 2020 is the lo-fi hacking fantasy of my dreams
News Something is making me want to say "Mister Anderson."
Lost Isle is an open-word survival game that just makes me want to plunder
news Loot, loot, and oh yes: more loot.
Triumphant OpenAI CEO spends a whole interview dodging questions about why he was fired like he's in The Matrix, but does suggest the nonprofit board is in for some big changes
news "Clearly, our governance structure had a problem. And the best way to fix that problem is going to take a while."
Fallout TV series first look: it's 'dramatic and dark' but with 'a little bit of a wink,' says Todd Howard
News Plus Walton Goggins with no nose.
Wannabe supervillain pulls AI 'heist' to steal competitor traffic, but really just shows how unchecked AI is going to ruin the internet
News Stealing from the collection plate, 2023 style.
With Sam Bankman-Fried in the slammer, now the fugitive crypto 'Lunatic' behind 2022's $40B crash is being extradited from his Montenegrin getaway
news The question is whether he goes to South Korea or the US.
Hideki Kamiya breaks out the tiny violin for the 9 Bayonetta games he once imagined: 'I may have to take the full saga to the grave'
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