Latest articles by Rich Stanton
Gabe Newell stepped back from game design during Portal 2's development, because 'he always wanted to be part of the team, but being Gabe and being in his position, that never really worked'
News Portal 2 project lead Josh Weier says Newell didn't want to impose his ideas on designers, but being one of them wasn't an option.
Shinji Mikami's next game was just stealth-announced in a YouTube video and it sure looks like the creator of survival horror is back doing what he does best
News You can't keep a good man down.
Valve veteran slams Tim Sweeney and Epic Games for laying off 1000 people while making 'as much money as possible… and hey Tim, Gabe's better at that than you'
News "I worked my ass off at Valve, and I could retire today. I made more money than I'll ever make."
Neuralink patient raiding in World of Warcraft after only 100 days of having the implant installed calls it 'pure magic… exploring Azeroth hands-free at full speed'
News "No mouse, no keyboard, just intention."
'If this was a trial about whether I made stupid tweets I would say I'm guilty' says Elon Musk in trial before being found guilty
News "This is a great example of what you cannot do to the average investor," said attorney Joseph Cotchett.
The Minecraft Movie sequel casts Kirsten Dunst, which is not surprising because she wanted to be in a film 'where I don’t lose money'
News MJ!
Major industry survey finds that, surprise surprise, 9/10 game devs think generative AI use should be more fully disclosed on Steam
News But "in the near future, players will no longer care and then we won't disclose it anymore."
Capcom proudly announces 2025 was its 12th straight year of growth, and it has PC to thank for it
News "We will work to gain a deeper understanding of the characteristics and trends of the PC market and PC users."
Counter-Strike 2 introduces the game's biggest shake-up in years: Now when reloading, you lose all the mag's remaining ammo
News "As a chronic reloader I'm terrified."
Capcom says yep Leon is married, and now has 'a place to go home to' after killing an army of infected: but who's waiting for him when he gets there?
News "The answer will become clear some day, but not just yet."
Slay the Spire 2 is one of the year's biggest hits, which is a good time to remember it abandoned Unity because of the dev fee debacle: 'That is how badly you f****d up'
News The fallout from Unity's disastrous 2023 fee overhaul continues to be felt.
Epic CEO and billionaire Tim Sweeney has been using some of his cash to buy up 50,000 acres of forest so it can't be flattened
News And made the "largest private land donation in North Carolina history."
A retired Microsoft engineer is training an AI to master Robotron: 2084, an incredibly difficult arcade game about a robot uprising
News There is something deliciously karmic about this one.
Starfield's composer says the game will become 'legendary', Todd Howard's a 'visionary', and maybe you 'were just not ready for it'
News "Eventually people will understand his vision."
Dead By Daylight devs reckon the game has 'at least' another 10 years in it
News "We just made a game ready to walk away. But it worked, and people wanted more, and so we gave them more."
Turing Award winner Tony Hoare, computing pioneer who invented the Quicksort algorithm for a sixpence bet, dies at the age of 92
News "You know, you shouldn't trust us intelligent programmers."
Valve says almost 6,000 games made over $100K on Steam last year
News And "if you have a line on a bunch of RAM, we are in the market and would like to buy it."
Industry legend Shinji Mikami has a new(ish) studio with staff benefits like 'a chocolate fountain on Valentine's Day'
News Gooey. Tasty.
Garry Newman says companies have tried to buy Facepunch but the only reason to sell it would be for money 'and I feel like I've got enough money'
News "Why not just enjoy what I've got and keep building it."
Brendan Greene says AI content is ruining the internet because it's 'a loop, LLMs are scanning this junk, and then that becomes truth… it's like a race to the middle of sh*t'
News "How can you trust stuff that says at the bottom you need to fact-check all the answers I'm giving you?"
Sega says yeah you're all real nice about our games—but you sure ain't buying them
News "High evaluations have yet to translate into a further increase in unit sales."
Valve says Steam users downloaded 100 exabytes of games in 2025, and are averaging 274 petabytes of installs and updates every day
News Today I learned what an exabyte is.
