
Rich Stanton
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

No one say the 'S' word: Google's trying out gaming again, this time with bite-sized games on YouTube
By Rich Stanton published
news Stadia? Never knew her.

Todd Howard asked on-air why Bethesda didn't optimise Starfield for PC: 'We did [...] you may need to upgrade your PC'
By Rich Stanton published
news "We really do push the technology."

Armored Core 6 PvP evolves into its true form as players drop their weapons and fistfight to the Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance soundtrack
By Rich Stanton published
news Violence breeds violence.

Runescape developer shutters sci-fi looter-shooter and issues refunds across the board
By Rich Stanton published
news Space Punks is also refunding players who've bought in-game items.

Classic Bethesda bug sees Starfield crew members riding on the outside of your ship in deep space
By Rich Stanton published
news Just chilling. Literally.

Legend has spent years making Portal for the N64 and by Gaben he's done it
By Rich Stanton published
news This guy is some sort of Nintendo Jedi.

True to FromSoftware's creative vision, Armored Core 6 now has a mech that's CJ riding Thomas the Tank Engine
By Rich Stanton published
news It's not an anthropomorphised fictional train. It's a meme.

Starfield gets the mod of mods, the granddaddy of them all: script extender
By Rich Stanton published
news Hold on to your spacesuits.

China's gaming restrictions are an 'ineffective policy' that hasn't cut playtime
By Rich Stanton published
news The boffins have the data, and it suggests the CCP's policy hasn't changed behaviour.

WoW Classic hardcore player feigns death for so long they actually die
By Rich Stanton published
news The mechanic is long-fixed in WoW, but persists in Classic.

Valve announces two big changes to Counter-Strike 2: shorter matches, and a new map-specific ranking system
By Rich Stanton published
news Who's ready for 10 more years of Dust 2?

The indie game's indie game is free on Epic
By Rich Stanton published
news Cave Story+ is a classic.

3500 people had a massive firefight in EVE Online out of 'boredom' (and because they had dreadnoughts)
By Rich Stanton published
news New Eden is never boring, though if it is then the players know exactly what to do.

CD Projekt casually mentions that, after Phantom Liberty, it's done with Cyberpunk 2077
By Rich Stanton published
news And it's ramping up development on the Witcher project codenamed Polaris.

Starfield subreddit goes mildly berserk as Todd Howard drops in to say 'we can't wait for you to play'
By Rich Stanton published
news Fetch me… the Reddit password.

Google begins trialling tool that adds a watermark to AI-generated images
By Rich Stanton published
news SynthID is not "foolproof against extreme image manipulation, but it does provide a promising technical approach".

Dwight from the Office advertising Armored Core 6 is the future mech fans dreamed of
By Rich Stanton published
news All that Elden Ring money gets your next game a higher calibre of marketing.

ChatGPT maker OpenAI acquires open-source Minecraft clone which I found out about from an article written by ChatGPT
By Rich Stanton published
news This article was not written by AI. Pinky promise.

Oops they did it again: War Thunder player posts NATO restricted military manual for what feels like the hundredth time
By Rich Stanton published
news Well, they do say military life is all about routine.

Huge chess scandal ends with begrudging agreement as one grandmaster threatens to 'name names' regardless
By Rich Stanton published
news World champion Magnus Carlsen had accused opponent Hans Niemann of cheating.

Wipeout's now remastered and playable in a browser, coder tells Sony to 'either let it be, or get a real remaster going'
By Rich Stanton published
news "I would have loved to work this into an officially sanctioned remaster [but] here we are."

WoW Classic's hardcore mode was only out for a few days before this frost gnome hit max level
By Rich Stanton published
news The achievement was a first and took just shy of 70 hours.

It took modders less than a day to add CJ from GTA: San Andreas to Armored Core 6
By Rich Stanton published
news I'll ha' that.
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