Latest articles by Rich Stanton
Bungie and sci-fi author settle lawsuit over alleged plagiarism of his old Wordpress stories for Destiny 2's launch campaign
News Guess those YouTube lore videos didn't do the trick.
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."
Disney CEO says AI is an 'engagement engine' and Disney+ is soon gonna be crammed to bursting with it
News And apparently Epic Games will be making games for it, too.
There is no stopping Hideo Kojima: Yet another Death Stranding adaptation has been announced, before either of the existing two have been released
News Franchise Hardman.
Welp, says Sony, sure looks like buying Bungie didn't work out
News "Sales and user engagement have not reached expectations."
Hideo Kojima outdoes himself once again with an IRL Death Stranding exoskeleton that claims to make your steps 50% more powerful and costs thousands of dollars
News Next up, Kojima Productions presents an actual baby in a tank.
Hideo Kojima just found out that Konami turned down the chance to make a Matrix game 26 years ago: 'If someone had told me, maybe there could’ve been a way to make it work'
News Konami took the blue pill on his behalf.
Latest CS2 patch has skin collectors in meltdown over a supposed $2bn in losses, with others saying 'this is the best update ever', but maybe Valve is just doing some course-correction and doesn't care
News AK Six-Seeven!
The top 100 PC games
Class of 2025 Welcome to the 2025 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games you can play.
OpenAI stops itself from generating 'disrespectful' Martin Luther King Jr. deepfakes, but this is the tip of the iceberg: 'Who gets protection from synthetic resurrection and who doesn't?'
News "King's estate rightfully raised this with OpenAI, but many deceased individuals don't have well-known and well-resourced estates to represent them."
Bungie executes spectacular U-turn by removing new currency it just added to Destiny 2, desperately bestows 777,777 unstable cores on all players for the apology tour
News Oops!
Hideo Kojima waxes lyrical about an Expo in 1970 he credits for Metal Gear and Death Stranding, says that 'young bureaucrats' asked him to help design the 2025 follow-up but his ideas cost too much: 'I haven't had any contact with them since'
News "I experienced the 'harmony between the future and the world' up-close."
Capcom legend tackles Palworld-Nintendo battle and manages to annoy almost everyone: 'It's a game that transcends the boundaries of war'
News Yoshiki Okamoto reckons fans shouldn't even be playing it while a lawsuit's active.
Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says he didn't write any of GTA 6: 'The world's probably had enough GTA from me'
News "The game will be great, I'm sure."
End of an era as Bowser (no not that one) retires from Nintendo
News Where's Wario when you need him?
'The future of GTA roleplaying' announced in collaboration with Rockstar Games
News Well, a nice change from when Rockstar was threatening to sue them.
A week after saying it was going quiet for the rest of the year, Palworld announces a crossover with the brilliant and bloodstained shooter Ultrakill
News Nintendo's really gonna love this one.
Hideo Kojima presents a Hideo Kojima credit card, fans immediately dub it 'debt stranding'
News Tactical spending action.
Eric Barone says he doesn't want 'too much hype' for Stardew Valley's 1.7 update, which is a bit like showing the internet a big red button marked DO NOT PRESS
News We demand wild garlic!
Ubisoft's Saudi-funded Assassin's Creed DLC provokes staff unrest, but the publisher insists partnering with the controversial regime is A-OK: 'Talking with partners who do not share our democratic values does not mean abandoning them'
News The free DLC takes players to an historic part of Saudi Arabia.
Escape from Tarkov finally puts on the big boy pants and announces a Steam release as it gears up for version 1.0
News No date yet, but version 1.0 is due November 15th.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says some folk are using AI in 'self-destructive ways' so it's on us as a society to work out how 'to make it a big net positive'
News Quit hitting yourself!
OpenAI just raised another $8.3 billon in a funding round that values it at an unbelievable $300B, surpassing AMD, Coca-Cola, and General Electric
News Who doesn't love a bit of end-stage capitalism.
