Latest articles by Rich Stanton
Nutmeg is a brilliant concept that at its best is almost football Balatro, but boy is this a game of two halves
Score draw A dream game with some nightmare trappings.
Peter Molyneux's Masters of Albion looks like three games in one, but it also looks like none of them is any good
News Jack of all trades, master of none.
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater has taken the Metal Gear series to over 65 million games sold
News You're pretty good.
Todd Howard says Bethesda really didn't expect people to hate the way Fallout 3 ended with a full stop: 'We thought this is Fallout, it’s great! People hated it!'
News "I'll give us an average grade on [the fix]."
Anthropic AI's safety lead quits with epic vaguepost claiming 'the world is in peril', and so he's off to become 'invisible' and study poetry
News Come find out about CosmoErotic Humanism.
The Fallout VATS system was inspired by Burnout's crash mode of all things or, as Todd Howard puts it, 'imagine the car parts are, like, eyeballs and guts!'
News "And that’s where you felt the stats of your character more than the run-and-gun."
Did they hit a nerve? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's response to 'authoritarian' Anthropic's annihilation of ads-supported AI doesn't make me trust it more
AI wars How did we get here.
Valve veteran imperiously scorns reports that it's secretly finished Half-Life 3 and moving devs to other projects: 'They've been done for months! They just sit on the game! They're just relaxing!'
News Chet Faliszek, who's previously worked on the series, doesn't have much time for the latest rumour.
Skyrim lead says the $100 videogame may not be the best idea: 'I personally think game developers would be wise to not push the prices higher, but gamers are a special breed... they will pay for what they want'
News "I don't think players look at the hours of experience per price of the title once it gets past a certain number."
Skyrim lead designer says the next Elder Scrolls should look at how Baldur’s Gate 3 made things ‘meaningful,’ because ‘the gaming community has spoken’
News "Bethesda games have maybe pulled back from doing that a little bit."
Bethesda veteran says less RPG complexity in the Elder Scrolls series is good, actually: 'We got rid of attributes in Skyrim and you know who complained? Almost nobody'
News “I led the charge on that, to be frank.”
Skyrim lead praises Todd Howard for trying 'desperately' not to micromanage and be a ‘bottleneck’, even though he still 'does what he calls seagulling where he swoops in and changes things'
News "He tries desperately not to."
Top football manager reminds football media that real football 'is not Football Manager, unfortunately'
News Would probably be nice if Tottenham could reload their season though.
Beyond Good and Evil 2 somehow survives the bloodbath at Ubisoft: creative director says he's 'saddened' by the layoffs and cancellations, but the 19-year project is 'unaffected'
News "We remain committed and focused on delivering a remarkable game for our players to enjoy."
The Linux community now has a succession plan for when Linus Torvalds checks out, after an apparently uplifting discussion about 'our eventual march toward death'
News "In the absence of an agreed-upon process, the community would find itself playing Calvinball at an awkward time."
Fatal Frame 2 is one of the scariest horror games I've played, and it sounds like the remake is tweaking all the right things
News It's also getting a demo just before launch.
Roblox comments on ongoing missing child case and the statement is, uh, not great
News Read the room.
North Korea's crypto thieving went into overdrive in 2025, with one firm estimating it's responsible for roughly 60% of the $3.4 billion stolen in total
News The regime may have made off with more than $2B last year.
Microsoft says sure, it'll hand over your encrypted data to the FBI: 'The lesson here is that if you have access to keys, eventually law enforcement is going to come'
News "Microsoft believes customers are in the best position to decide how to manage their keys."
I asked Garry Newman if he really was going to rename s&box as Garry's mod 2 after an overwhelming poll and he joked 'people are d*ckheads'
News "People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazi party Jeremy. You can't trust people."
Master Chief voice actor says he never wants AI cloning his hunky tones: 'That's where we cross a line… I don't like it, and I would prefer that it not be done'
News Hail to the Chief.
David Hasselhoff cracks out the old leather jacket and KITT from Knight Rider to tell gamers to 'grab your joysticks' and fight global warming
news Even if an 80s supercar arguing for climate action feels a tad ironic.
The first Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree patch nerfs the boss-melting explosive perfumes into the ground
news You can no longer Chanel true power.
