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
![Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer still - Vice](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zW4zMeMav2rQ6vHdjRyrLH-320-80.jpg)
Take-Two CEO says he's 'highly confident' GTA6 will make its release window, gets all philosophical about it: 'Perfection is indeed hard to measure, it really is more subjective than objective'
By Rich Stanton published
news Says if you want to know what's new… just watch the trailer again.
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Escape from Tarkov dev's latest wheeze is to offer players $50 'compensation' after a price U-turn, but rather than a refund it's a one-time use $50 Tarkov voucher
By Rich Stanton published
news But "in-game stash size has been increased by two lines."
![Hideo Kojima attends Tribeca Talks: Tribeca Games Presents: Hideo Kojima With Norman Reedus - 2019 Tribeca Film Festival at BMCC Tribeca PAC on April 25, 2019 in New York City.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Eyjq3skBVq7rVNybeLotuj-320-80.jpg)
Hideo Kojima goes mad for the new Mad Max, says George Miller 'is my God, and the saga that he tells is my Bible'
By Rich Stanton published
news "My ultimate mentor."
![Wayfinder screen](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/pLvU8dgPNXTdX3RURt6xra-320-80.jpg)
Always-online free-to-play ARPG relaunches with an offline mode, zero microtransactions, and an upfront price: 'We're in uncharted territory, and it's a big risk'
By Rich Stanton published
news "To our knowledge this hasn't been done before."
![This dude likes rings.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qsQHfmRuWSpLEjMJxYgLFF-320-80.jpg)
Embracer's talk about The Lord of the Rings says one thing: 'Fly, you fools!'
By Rich Stanton published
news More like Middling-earth.
![A crop of the first official portrait of King Charles III, showing his face.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Ey8ozyxftnVn9h4bhFNvsM-320-80.jpg)
Portrait of King Charles as rizzed-up final boss instantly modded into Dishonored
By Rich Stanton published
news Never complain, never explain.
![Takashi Kiryu addresses the crowd from the stage.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/eqEzGZyx9af2qH8xzW4onC-320-80.png)
Square Enix president bemoans weak Final Fantasy sales and says his restructure is existential: 'Our winning formula is no longer effective'
By Rich Stanton published
news Cloudy outlook.
![NieR creator Yoko Taro in his trademark Emil mask from the games](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9hH4SdoXa7bk8Q5LcAwiP7-320-80.jpg)
NieR series producer says he's doing something with the key creatives, adds with a chuckle: 'It might be NieR, it might not be NieR'
By Rich Stanton published
news "I'll have something a bit more comprehensive to say in the not-too-distant future."
![Mr Gill gives evidence to Congressional hearing.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/pcvk97Jja3pitSupgsuMxL-320-80.png)
The GameStop memelord returns, stonks spike, market panics—and all he's done so far is post a bunch of mid memes
By Rich Stanton published
news The fund managers are not impressed.
![Art of a man gazing into an astral rift in Stellaris.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/S2jNGtWFsDbrEzuNL82CAj-320-80.png)
Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves'
By Rich Stanton published
news "The voice actors that signed up and built the models receive royalties for every line we create."
![A giant bile titan, a towering insect from Helldivers 2, lets out a vicious scream as it stomps over the landscape.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/vb6F9TNWYBKyhsfxr58HJ6-320-80.png)
Helldivers 2 player yeets a big bug straight through an even bigger bug like an atomic baseball—'Ever seen a Charger Stratagem? Now you have'
By Rich Stanton published
news Sometimes you make your own luck.
![ChatGPT logo on a trippy green background.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/c4oz5DR6hvwQSELdSyFgdh-320-80.jpg)
OpenAI, a company built on 'scraping' content without permission, makes a copyright claim against a subreddit using its logo
By Rich Stanton published
news OpenAIrony is dead.
![The Lord of the Rings: Gollum](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/QWoKpn3nQpKGLfiE4ugPKo-320-80.jpg)
Gee that Lord of the Rings: Gollum game sucked didn't it, so how about a Gollum movie?
By Rich Stanton published
news Warner Bros. cranks up the marketing machine once more on the precious.
![A bunch of executives look at the camera.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/DCNjxZyzWdeYT2qjDT7W9G-320-80.jpg)
As warriors age, so must the battlefield: 1vs1 me on LinkedIn, coward
By Rich Stanton published
news Three new games aim to get more people using the corporate social network regularly.
![helldivers 2 operation swift disassembly](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zxNStQpBeJDDnV9wLHZvVV-320-80.jpg)
Helldivers 2's themes are bleeding into its community management, and creating a new standard in live storytelling
By Rich Stanton published
news Arrowhead has engaged a playerbase at scale, and made them feel they have a degree of control in how this game evolves.
![The Evil Within 2](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/x7HZbvU2zDY6TdXr9rhK3K-320-80.jpg)
Legendary creator Shinji Mikami has one word for Microsoft shutting down the studio he founded: 'Sad'
By Rich Stanton published
news Mikami founded Tango Gameworks in 2010, and it was closed yesterday.
![A giant bile titan, a towering insect from Helldivers 2, lets out a vicious scream as it stomps over the landscape.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/vb6F9TNWYBKyhsfxr58HJ6-320-80.png)
Helldivers 2 patch sneaks out the revelation that when we killed 2 billion bugs in a day, that was actually a bug
By Rich Stanton published
news It's also nixed a persistent crash issue that I've had a bunch.
![battlefield 2042 season 4](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5EBJNXJ4vukwAiftYUzv6K-320-80.jpg)
EA CEO says they've learned 'valuable lessons', so the next Battlefield is going to be 'another tremendous live service'
By Rich Stanton published
news Blame it on the Battlefield 2042 players who "made it clear that they wanted an even deeper experience."
![A Black Lotus card from Magic: The Gathering that sold for $3 million.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Wb5soMhnb2nLJ4DqC96MYf-320-80.png)
Magic's most-valuable card hits an absurd $3 million after 'private sale', some call shenanigans, no one knows what's real, but what's true is it was bought with bitcoin
By Rich Stanton published
news The Alpha Black Lotus is now the single most valuable card in existence.
![Three Helldivers run towards the camera in a snowy landscape.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/A53PBgiknj2zAi7ZCPAw6G-320-80.jpg)
Helldivers 2's next warbond makes slowdown an unpatriotic thing of the past with 'motivational shocks'
By Rich Stanton published
news "Literally shocks Helldivers back into action."
![Casper Van Dien in Starship Troopers](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/xdbgp4pDwCuLFHYCvH6MUc-320-80.jpg)
Casper Van Dien geeks out over Helldivers 2's references and gives it a patriotic 10/10—'such a tribute to Starship Troopers it's really quite wonderful'
By Rich Stanton published
news "I already feel like I'm a part of it."
![Manor Lords tavern - Peasants walking through town](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/UtKpoGq9SuhLrEVpTzXv4d-320-80.jpg)
Manor Lords publisher says the game's success is 'well beyond what we could have hoped'
By Rich Stanton published
news "But ultimately Greg's making the decisions and driving the development: he is the developer."
![Todd Howard, director and executive producer at Bethesda, holds a copy of Fallout: 76.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4anQ2e6HySX9HMTSELevi5-320-80.png)
Todd Howard says Bethesda's trying to 'increase our output' with Elder Scrolls and Fallout 'because we don't want to wait that long either'
By Rich Stanton published
news Do it Todd.