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
Valve level designer returns to Twitter after lengthy absence to reveal he used a pot to add handles to an electrical box in Counter-Strike
By Rich Stanton published
news "Being new at work I didn't want to bother anyone."
Valve bans then unbans Counter-Strike skin trader with a $1.5 million inventory and the highest Steam level in the world
By Rich Stanton published
news CS:NO!
Ubisoft wins daftest PR stunt of the year by jamming the latest Assassin's Creed game into some poor bird's beak
By Rich Stanton published
news The publisher admires their "signature piercing squawks."
Chess grandmaster denies using anal beads to cheat against world champion: 'categorically no, of course not'
By Rich Stanton published
news "It really has taught me a lot of very important lessons about life and chess."
Red Cross issues rules of engagement to war-focused hacker groups, who say 'why should I listen to the Red Cross?'
By Rich Stanton published
news "Comply with these rules even if the enemy does not"
Minecraft wiki completes exit from Fandom, gets ready to fight its own zombified corpse
By Rich Stanton published
news Very happy to leave the yellow sidebar behind.
I didn't know there were 'iconic' school bus designs until Bus Simulator licensed one
By Rich Stanton published
news "An officially licensed Saf-T-Liner C2 school bus" is just a funny phrase.
The same modder who fixed Starfield's inventory has now sorted out the rest of the UI
By Rich Stanton published
news Not all heroes wear capes.
CCP's CEO on life, the universe, and EVE Online: 'It's worthwhile to spend our lives taking care of it'
By Rich Stanton published
Tranquillity Hilmar Veigar Pétursson on everything from the other CCP to the war in Ukraine.
It's messed-up and weird that CS:GO is just gone
By Rich Stanton published
GOne Another one bites de_dust.
What I think of Counter-Strike 2 on day 1
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Newbie It's CS:GO Jim, but not as we know it.
Team Fortress 2 voice actors go for the Oscars with recreation of its most iconic fan skit
By Rich Stanton published
news A heavy version of Heavy is Dead.
EVE Online director wants players to be able to download its grandest battles as replays and do post-match analysis like football
By Rich Stanton published
news Just like "the football coach saying 'the lads played well', you know?"
EVE Online's director has a simple message for its players: 'Cry havoc, and let loose the dogs of war!'
By Rich Stanton published
Chaos Theory "I don't like nerf cycles, the 'make it worse make it better' kind of thing."
CCP knows Dust 514 should never have been a console exclusive: 'If we had been on PC the whole time the game would literally be alive'
By Rich Stanton published
news EVE Online director Snorri Árnason says the developer has some serious unfinished business in the FPS genre.
EVE Online's next expansion finally lets players buddy-up with the pirates
By Rich Stanton published
news But the biggest cheers were reserved for corporate bureaucracy (really).
EVE: Vanguard is CCP's latest attempt at a shooter, but don't call it Dust 2
By Rich Stanton published
Grounded Existing "within EVE", players will get their first taste of the shooter in December.
Premier League superstar 'shocked' about how poorly EA Sports FC rates his abilities
By Rich Stanton published
news "I'm gonna have to have a word."
Dogs biting staff, obscene sums spent on rappers, and eye-popping losses: How FaZe Clan was 'building a mythology,' bro
By Rich Stanton published
news "We weren’t throwing money in the garbage."
Valve said Counter-Strike 2 would be out this summer, now says it 'launches soon'
By Rich Stanton published
news "The year isn't quite over…"
Garry of Garry's Mod says 'Unity can get f*cked' and in-passing mentions Rust 2
By Rich Stanton published
news "The trust is gone."
Starfield's space shanties are sung by the viral sea shanty man
By Rich Stanton published
news There once was a ship that put to space…
Todd Howard blames the pandemic for Starfield delays: Working from home was 'very, very slow'
By Rich Stanton published
news "As things moved on, we were off by a percentage, and a percentage when it comes to the scale of this game turns out to be a lot of time."
Blizzard bans 250,000 Overwatch 2 cheaters, says its AI that analyses voice chat is warning naughty players and can often 'correct negative behaviour immediately'
By Rich Stanton published
news It's also been identifying accounts that notably group with cheaters, and has banned thousands of these.