Latest articles by Rich Stanton
XDefiant is now ex-Defiant as the game closes and its executive producer leaves Ubisoft: 'We just didn't have the gas to go the distance'
News "We saw a lot of reactions from other games to what we were doing and that to me speaks volumes."
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney takes yet another victory lap after Apple's latest appeal fails: 'The long national nightmare of the Apple tax is ended'
News "Tim, you're gonna make Tim Cook retire early."
Valve buys fan favourite Counter-Strike map from creator: 'They reached out to buy it on day 1, a great honor and I don't want anyone to think we hesitated for one moment'
News Cache was already in the Workshop, but now looks set for the competitive map pool.
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney takes his victory lap as Fortnite returns to the app store after nearly 5 years: 'Thanks to all of the folks who initially sided with Apple then later came around to the winning side'
News "A clear win for Epic Games."
Former Valve writer Marc Laidlaw says he 'retired too hard', but there's no way he's coming back for Half-Life 3: 'We need new stuff, [not] me going 'Well the G-Man wouldn't do that in my day'
News "Definitely the Half-Life part of my life is way behind me."
Someone flipped a switch on Elon Musk's Grok AI so it wouldn't stop banging on about 'white genocide' and South African politics, xAI blames 'an unauthorized modification' but doesn't say who did it
News "It’s awfully easy for the people who are in charge of these algorithms to manipulate the version of truth that they’re giving."
Hideo Kojima has an idea for a game where you age and die, 'but no-one would buy it', then immediately suggests one where you eventually forget how to move
News I mean, the Memento license is right there.
OpenAI CEO whines to Congress about pesky regulations, once more insists the tech's impact will be 'as big as the internet, maybe bigger'
News As far as senators are concerned, it's all about beating China.
Rockstar says GTA 6's second trailer is now the biggest video launch of all time, whatever that means
News Half a billion views and counting.
Bill Gates says Elon Musk's DOGE cutbacks are directly responsible for kids dying: 'The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one'
News Adds that Musk has no idea what these agencies do.
Hideo Kojima says Death Stranding 2 has so much tactical espionage action that even his own staff 'worried it was getting a little Metal Gear-ish'
News Th-thank you Boss!
Rockstar just dropped a ton of new GTA 6 details
News Jason's a veteran, and everyone is on the make.
Eric Barone's been playing lots of chess and reckons Elon Musk's 'tech tree' idea isn't awful: 'What if someone did a Balatro treatment… a chess roguelike?'
News "I'm not like a huge chess guy, it's just always been something that I've wanted to be decent at."
Nexon wins the bidding war to make a new StarCraft as well as distribute a Blizzard mobile game that's being called 'Overwatch 3'
News I can't be the only one wondering: why?
Fallout creator laments the loss of the game's earliest development materials: 'I had that in digital form and was ordered to destroy it'
News "The amount of stuff that's been lost about Fallout and its early development saddens me," Tim Cain says.
OpenAI exec tells judge hell yeah, we'd happily buy Chrome—and stuff it full of AI!
News Ay ay ay!
OpenAI countersues Elon Musk and the gloves come off: 'These antics are just history on repeat—Elon being all about Elon'
News "When he didn’t get his way, he stormed off."
Half-Life 2's 2003 beta reveals the mystery behind a City 17 river that once led players to the foot of the Citadel
News Valve once had us spending a lot more time exploring the waterways of City 17.
Path of Exile 2's nerf-happy update has the playerbase revolting, review-bombing their baby, and scorning the developer's promises: 'Like reading a Blizzard post on fixing Diablo 4'
"I'd rather just go into work than play this game right now."
Nintendo's fearsome CEO once called Shigeru Miyamoto in to ask if Tetris was any good, who replied 'your secretaries and accountants are all playing at lunchtime and after work, and that's never happened before'
News Knew what to look for.
Hideo Kojima says Death Stranding's now had over 20 million players, and the fact folk are still playing 'makes me the happiest'
News "Sams from all over the world are still delivering."
A whole bunch of Korean studios are trying to convince Blizzard to let them make a new StarCraft game, including MMO specialist NCSoft
News You must construct additional videogames.
