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

Robot with glowing red eyes
Bungie and sci-fi author settle lawsuit over alleged plagiarism of his old Wordpress stories for Destiny 2's launch campaign

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News Guess those YouTube lore videos didn't do the trick.

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Gabe Newell in a Valve promotional video, on a yacht.
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

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News "We knew we were asking for unusual things," says Newell, "and Oceanco embraced it with open arms."

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Chief executive officer and chairman of The Walt Disney Company Bob Iger and Mickey Mouse look on before ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), November 27, 2017 in New York City. Disney is marking the company's 60th anniversary as a listed company on the NYSE.
Disney CEO says AI is an 'engagement engine' and Disney+ is soon gonna be crammed to bursting with it

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News And apparently Epic Games will be making games for it, too.

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The two protagonists of Death Stranding Isolations.
There is no stopping Hideo Kojima: Yet another Death Stranding adaptation has been announced, before either of the existing two have been released

By Rich Stanton Published

News Franchise Hardman.

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Zavala looks out at the Witness's attack on the Traveler.
Welp, says Sony, sure looks like buying Bungie didn't work out

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News "Sales and user engagement have not reached expectations."

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Hideo Kojima
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

By Rich Stanton Published

News Next up, Kojima Productions presents an actual baby in a tank.

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Hideo Kojima wearing a Policenauts t-shirt.
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'

By Rich Stanton Published

News Konami took the blue pill on his behalf.

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Counter-Strike 2 header image
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

By Rich Stanton Published

News AK Six-Seeven!

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PC Gamer Top 100 2025
The top 100 PC games

By Phil Savage Published

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.

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Class of 2025
Dr Martin Luther King Jr. delivering the speech now popularly known for the section beginning "I have a dream."
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?'

By Rich Stanton Published

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."

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Zavala looks out at the Witness's attack on the Traveler.
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

By Rich Stanton Published

News Oops!

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Hideo Kojima in Brighton, 2016.
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'

By Rich Stanton Published

News "I experienced the 'harmony between the future and the world' up-close."

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Palworld Ancient Civilization Parts - Grizzbolt with a minigun
Capcom legend tackles Palworld-Nintendo battle and manages to annoy almost everyone: 'It's a game that transcends the boundaries of war'

By Rich Stanton Published

News Yoshiki Okamoto reckons fans shouldn't even be playing it while a lawsuit's active.

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Protagonists Jason and Lucia in Grand Theft Auto 6.
Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says he didn't write any of GTA 6: 'The world's probably had enough GTA from me'

By Rich Stanton Published

News "The game will be great, I'm sure."

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Doug Bowser checking out Luigi's Mansion 3 on the Nintendo Switch during 2019 E3 Gaming Convention.
End of an era as Bowser (no not that one) retires from Nintendo

By Rich Stanton Published

News Where's Wario when you need him?

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GTA Online
'The future of GTA roleplaying' announced in collaboration with Rockstar Games

By Rich Stanton Published

News Well, a nice change from when Rockstar was threatening to sue them.

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Three sheep with big guns in Palworld.
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

By Rich Stanton Published

News Nintendo's really gonna love this one.

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Hideo Kojima
Hideo Kojima presents a Hideo Kojima credit card, fans immediately dub it 'debt stranding'

By Rich Stanton Published

News Tactical spending action.

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Eric Barone at GDC 2025.
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

By Rich Stanton Published

News We demand wild garlic!

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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
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'

By Rich Stanton Published

News The free DLC takes players to an historic part of Saudi Arabia.

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Escape From Tarkov promo art - three EFT soldiers sitting side by side, looking off into the distance
Escape from Tarkov finally puts on the big boy pants and announces a Steam release as it gears up for version 1.0

By Rich Stanton Published

News No date yet, but version 1.0 is due November 15th.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman throws up his hands.
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'

By Rich Stanton Published

News Quit hitting yourself!

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Ryan Gosling looking worse for wear looking up lit by purple light
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

By Rich Stanton Published

News Who doesn't love a bit of end-stage capitalism.

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David Hayter and Maggie Robertson.
Big Boss and Lady Dimitrescu will host the Future Games Show at Gamescom 2025

By Rich Stanton Published

News Over 50 games from the likes of Capcom and EA will be shown.

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Gabe Newell in Half-Life 25th Anniversary documentary video
Gabe Newell says young people need to use AI tools to get 'off to the races' rather than 'reading articles on Variety to try to understand what its impact is going to be'

By Rich Stanton Published

News "I think [AI is] going to be 10 times as significant as the impact of CGI was on filmmaking."

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