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."
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News He's very much a people person.

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News "This was just a complete distraction or a waste of time versus what I was supposed to be doing."

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News We might not have Steam if Ballmer hadn't blown his top.

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News "It's just utter, utter drivel and neoliberal nonsense."

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News Is that a gunlance in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?

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News Correct, he is.

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News "If I had to point to a technology transition to get in front of, it's to figure out how to use AI to do anything better."

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News But there's still "a vocal anti-AI sentiment among artists and gamers who simply won’t buy games with this stuff in."

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News "Even if you're just a pure tool user you're going to find that the gains to utilising those tools are very, very high."

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News "The key is to ignore all the distractions."

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News "I'm working from my bedroom as you can tell."

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News Julian LeFay was Bethesda's chief engineer and the driving force behind the earliest Elder Scrolls titles.

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News All locations are now available again.

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News Actual decision-making will remain in the hands of humans, probably.

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"That's kind of where some of the ideation came from when it came to building some of the big statues that we put around Greece."

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News I did Nazi that coming!

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News "More than likely the person buying your game is not going to play it."

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News What're ya buying?

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News You love to see it.

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News Hard to disagree.

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News The king of ancient Greece also turns up at one point.

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News Part of a wider push that began earlier this year.

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News "If I pass the baton to my staff and tell them to make things the same way I do, the company will not succeed and will go out of business."
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