Latest articles by Rich Stanton
Resident Evil director Paul W. S. Anderson says he's got no time for people who do game adaptations without playing them—'That's outrageous'
News And also finds time to demolish that awful Doom movie.
Resident Evil director Paul W.S. Anderson says the first movie doesn't adapt the games because it would ruin everything: 'Imagine watching Alien if, going into the cinema, someone told you they all die apart from Sigourney Weaver'
"What I loved about Resident Evil, apart from the fact it was a great game, was it was clearly patterned on a series of movies that I had loved growing up."
The best guns in Resident Evil 4 Remake
Good guns Cram your case with these parasite-murdering weapons in RE4.
Todd Howard says AI's 'not a fad' but 'we're not using it to generate anything… that handcrafted human intention, is what makes things special, and that's where we want to be'
News "You can't ignore it, in terms of it's coming, it's changing."
The White House is a radioactive crater in Fallout 3 because there were no quests there, so why build it? 'It is our version of [Indiana Jones] shooting the guy rather than pulling out his whip and going into a fight'
News "There was no gameplay around the White House."
Rockstar celebrates official GTA mod support by nuking non-official mod platform
News Can't we all just get along?
Bethesda originally thought Fallout 3's metro system should go all over the map, then realised running through miles of tunnels was dull as hell: 'Being realistic sometimes isn't fun'
News Well, not with that attitude.
Shutaro Iida, Konami veteran and programmer for the Castlevania and Metal Gear series credited as 'Curry The Kid', has died at the age of 52
News Iida died on February 10
This space MMO was coded by AI, is played by AI, and all us meatbags can do is watch them
News SpaceMolt is a vibe-coded "living universe" where AI agents face off against one another.
Konami got the main thing right with Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2, but it could and should have offered so much more
Snaaake? A whole chunk of the series' history remains locked on PSP.
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.
