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
The DNA of Arthur C. Clarke just burned up on re-entry to Earth's atmosphere after a failed moonshot, while Star Trek creator Gene Rodenberry's ashes are off to deep space
By Rich Stanton published
news The ashes were among those of around 70 individuals on-board.
OpenAI knows its tech might get misused in major elections, but I'm not convinced it has a clue how to stop it
By Rich Stanton published
news "Until we know more, we don't allow people to build applications for political campaigning and lobbying."
Blizzard puts Diablo 3 out to pasture as it starts to recycle old seasons
By Rich Stanton published
news In the end, it was a good game.
US Supreme Court has had enough of Epic vs. Apple, refuses to hear appeals, Tim Sweeney says the fight to open-up iOS 'is lost… a sad outcome for all developers'
By Rich Stanton published
news But vows to fight on anyway.
Elden Ring's friendly dog actually wants to rip you to shreds
By Rich Stanton published
news Doggone!
'Father of the Xbox' shares the 1990s desktop PC aesthetic of its prototype devkit
By Rich Stanton published
news The OG DirectXbox.
GTA 5 actor goes nuclear on AI company that made a voice chatbot of him: 'I'm not worried about being replaced... I just hate these f**kers'
By Rich Stanton published
news Stick that in your chatbot and machine learn it.
This Pac-Man inspired one-button corridor-gobbler just ate several hours of my day
By Rich Stanton published
news Wakka great job.
Fake crypto CEO that fronted $1.3 billion rug-pull exposed as jobbing actor who got paid $5,000 with a suit thrown in
By Rich Stanton published
news It don't get worse than HyperVerse.
Miss the days of PC Gamer cover discs? Well, here's a terrifying one from an alternate universe
By Rich Stanton published
news Jumpscares ahoy!
Looks like Bethesda's Indiana Jones game now has a name
By Rich Stanton published
news Why did it have to be leaks.
US SEC begrudgingly approves Bitcoin trades but warns investors it's a 'speculative, volatile asset that's also used for ransomware, money laundering, sanction evasion, and terrorist financing'
By Rich Stanton published
news Doesn't seem too happy about it.
Hogwarts Legacy sold over 22 million copies, Warner Bros. exec brags it's 'the best-selling game of the year in the entire industry worldwide'
By Rich Stanton published
news Yer a cash cow 'Arry.
BMW's latest brilliant microtransaction idea: Let them play videogames
By Rich Stanton published
CES 2024 Why does this feel like a bad idea.
Age of Empires developer confirms the game is mostly written in low-level Assembly code because 'we could scroll the screen and fill it with sprites as fast or faster' than competitors like Starcraft 'even though we had twice as many pixels'
By Rich Stanton published
news "I guess I can clarify this, since I wrote all the assembly code used in Age of Empires and Age of Kings."
Steam kicks off 2024 with its highest-ever concurrents and player count
By Rich Stanton published
news The Steam train keeps a-rollin' down the tracks.
This multi-million crypto rug pull has a new twist: The CEO may not exist
By Rich Stanton published
news Neither did the returns, thangew!
Logan Paul's NFT zoo catastrophe takes an unexpected turn: He's buying back the eggs and suing his co-founders
By Rich Stanton published
news The divisive influencer's expensive lawyers just made some great points.
Star Citizen truly outdoes itself with a $48,000 bundle for its most loyal whales
By Rich Stanton published
news We live in a society where virtual spaceship DLC can cost more than most peoples' annual salary.
Portal 64 now has a playable 'first slice' with two-thirds of the game's test chambers
By Rich Stanton published
news Just wait till you see the custom N64 hardware that goes with it.
Heroes of the Storm comes full circle as a mod of the game of the mod
By Rich Stanton published
news And prompts a HotS developer to share some of Blizzard's plans that never came to be.
UK police begin first-ever investigation into sexual assault in the metaverse
By Rich Stanton published
news A teenage girl was allegedly assaulted in VR by multiple other users.
Popular Slay the Spire mod hacked to deliver malware on Christmas Day
By Rich Stanton published
news Get on the naughty list.