Rich Stanton

Rich Stanton

Senior Editor

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

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Easy Anti-Cheat arrives in Rocket League and marks the end of the game's most popular mod: 'The right time to bring things to a close'

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News "Over 750,000 people use the mod on a daily basis, and over 1.5 million of you use it every week!"

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Team Fortress 2 Engineer avatar
Here we go again: AI deletes entire company database and all backups in 9 seconds, then cheerfully admits 'I violated every principle I was given'

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News "If you pay for car airbags and they don’t deploy because they don’t exist is that your fault because you got in the accident?"

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A scared man sits on an office chair mid-air while a trolley and a bath with wheels falls behind him
'Eventually the slop will just fall to the bottom': Garry's Mod sequel launches to 'mixed' reviews, but Garry himself isn't worried about AI games on the main page

By Rich Stanton Published

News "Low quality, obvious AI-created slop is going to be a growing problem in every creative outlet."

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Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater
Snake voice actor David Hayter was befuddled by Metal Gear Solid's convoluted plot: 'I'd be like 'what does this mean?' and they'd say 'just say it''

By Rich Stanton Published

News "That's what makes Metal Gear, Metal Gear."

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Mass Effect Andromeda actor says the game got a 'bum rap' from 'chuds' and was 'done dirty by a publisher expecting too much from it'

By Rich Stanton Published

News "Their love of hate sealed the deal."

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The box art for the Elder Scrolls: Arena.
This composer just remade the entire soundtrack of the first Elder Scrolls game: 'It really gives you a sense of wonder and adventure'

By Rich Stanton Published

News "Arena has always been a game that I hold close to my heart,"

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People sitting in a tavern looking a little offended, possibly because someone farted nearby
This Skyrim mod that makes NPCs AI chatterboxes just got a massive overhaul

By Rich Stanton Published

News "I am floored by this mod."

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A harbour in Istanbul with the Turkish flag at the forefront.
Turkiye passes legislation to tighten its grip on Steam and other gaming platforms, but it's social media companies that really get it in the neck

By Rich Stanton Published

News And how.

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A hand holds a bitcoin over the US flag draped over a slate board.
Crypto-scammers are offering cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz safety for Bitcoin, and Iran's already fired on at least one

By Rich Stanton Published

News At least no-one's been hurt, yet.

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Art for the Ironclad in Slay the Spire 2
Slay the Spire 2 dev says an early idea was to actually reduce the card pool, but players hated it: 'We need new stuff!'

By Rich Stanton Published

"They were not jiving with that at all."

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Hideo Kojima poses with various objects at Valve Software's offices.
Hideo Kojima went to Valve and like a master troll took a photo of himself with 3 Half-Life gravity guns

By Rich Stanton Published

And the orb!

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Tim Cain explains THAC0
Fallout co-creator says non-linear design is all about never assuming how players will act, illustrates his point by fantasising about an NPC guard he seems to really hate

By Rich Stanton Published

News "Your job is to provide a nice map for them to play on."

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Fallout New Vegas
Fallout: New Vegas dev says it could've been set in New Orleans because 'the vibe was so cool, the flavor was cool, [it would've been] so sweet'

By Rich Stanton Published

News Get Obsidian on that New Orleans idea stat.

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A Rust player rides a horse as it leaps into the air.
Rust has a 'horse shield' meta problem, so one enterprising player has come up with a 'horse baiting' meta to fix it

By Rich Stanton Published

News There's always someone with a bigger stick.

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A battered Indiana Jones grins at a Nazi archvillain while buried to his neck in sand.
If you can't get enough Troy Baker in your videogames, here's the good news: he's going to start making them

By Rich Stanton Published

News Wonder if they'll star Troy Baker?

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Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag
Even after Ubisoft confirmed 'gaming's worst-kept secret' of an Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake, it somehow manages to leak another trailer before the reveal

By Rich Stanton Published

News I suppose it kinda fits a pirate game.

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Fallout New Vegas screenshot from ultrawide PC gaming monitor showing robot with crying face
Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow'

By Rich Stanton Published

News I'm not quite sure that would be the biggest issue.

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Skyrim intro cinematic skill - Hey, you. You're finally awake.
Apparently the name of one of the most famous RPG series of all time was a last-minute band-aid: 'I don't think he knew what it meant any more than we did'

By Rich Stanton Published

News "In the end, we had a game that almost didn't resemble our original idea at all."

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The box art for the Elder Scrolls: Arena.
Design lead on the first Elder Scrolls fondly recalls the days when Bethesda would finish a game, then the team would 'assemble boxes, inserts and use the heat gun' to get it shipped

By Rich Stanton Published

News "We even spent time shrink-wrapping the games ourselves."

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A jarl sits on his throne in Skyrim.
Hero modder gives all of Skyrim's jarls unique sitting poses on their fancy thrones

By Rich Stanton Published

News I'd never even noticed they all sat the same.

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John Carmack
An oldie but a goodie: John Carmack once told us Quake Arena 'was my favourite id Software game… always the one that I looked at as a pure game'

By Rich Stanton Published

News The game just "stands the test of time."

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Grace looks down at a tiny version of the Licker, thanks to a Requiem mod that shrinks enemies.
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.

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 04: Video game designer Todd Howard is seen arriving to The Inaugural Gotham TV Awards at Cipriani 25 Broadway on June 04, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images)
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."

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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.

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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.

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