
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

If you're finding Resident Evil: Requiem a bit scary, why not mod it to make the enemies tiny
By Rich Stanton published
News Makes Chunk look adorable.

Todd Howard says Starfield's NG+ was misunderstood and defends Bethesda's new U-turn on how it works: 'You can tell us if we've done our job right'
By Rich Stanton published
News "We want to be trying to do more things that update the game where it's going to change the next 100 hours."

World Championship Wrestling once spent millions on a gimmick ripping off Mortal Kombat’s Sub-Zero, before Midway threatened to sue and WCW immediately gave up: 'We were gonna lose big, like real big'
By Rich Stanton published
News Glacier was not hot stuff.

Today I learned that Excel incorrectly assumes 1900 was a leap year, and Microsoft will never fix it because the whole house of cards would collapse
By Rich Stanton published
News Luckily, most users don't build spreadsheets focused on 1900.

Double Dragon and Kunio-kun creator Yoshihisa Kishimoto dies at 64
By Rich Stanton published
News "Please continue to enjoy my father's works and have a good time."

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'
By Rich Stanton published
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
By Rich Stanton published
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'
By Rich Stanton published
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'
By Rich Stanton published
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
By Rich Stanton published
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'
By Rich Stanton published
News MJ!

Major industry survey finds that, surprise surprise, 9/10 game devs think generative AI use should be more fully disclosed on Steam
By Rich Stanton published
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
By Rich Stanton published
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
By Rich Stanton published
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?
By Rich Stanton published
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'
By Rich Stanton published
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
By Rich Stanton published
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
By Rich Stanton published
News There is something deliciously karmic about this one.

The lyrics to the rap song about John McAfee, annotated
By Rich Stanton published
Psyke Virtual insanity.

Starfield's composer says the game will become 'legendary', Todd Howard's a 'visionary', and maybe you 'were just not ready for it'
By Rich Stanton published
News "Eventually people will understand his vision."

Dead By Daylight devs reckon the game has 'at least' another 10 years in it
By Rich Stanton published
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
By Rich Stanton published
News "You know, you shouldn't trust us intelligent programmers."

Valve says almost 6,000 games made over $100K on Steam last year
By Rich Stanton published
News And "if you have a line on a bunch of RAM, we are in the market and would like to buy it."
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