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
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.
Counter-Strike 2 just remade my favourite game from the ground-up for free and let me keep my fancy AK-47, so of course it's the true GOTY
By Rich Stanton published
I just want to shoot virtual people in the head, and nothing does it better.
2023 in crypto and web3: Scams, collapses, and finally some consequences
By Rich Stanton published
Clink! Et tu, Mutant Ape Planet?
Best Shooter 2023: Remnant 2
By Harvey Randall published
The Gotys Gunfire Games' subversive sequel was our favourite shooter of the year.
Interpol busts 3,500 alleged cybercriminals and scammers, seizes $300 million of ill-gotten proceeds, and warns about the rise of the NFT 'rug pull'
By Rich Stanton published
news "This represents the savings and hard-earned cash of victims."
Best Fighting Game 2023: Street Fighter 6
By Tyler Wilde published
The Gotys Capcom's flagship series retains its crown.
The Washington Post tried to buy Wordle before the New York Times did
By Rich Stanton published
news Yowza.
Obsidian pitched doing a Fallout: New Vegas but for The Elder Scrolls, Bethesda said nah we're good thanks
By Rich Stanton published
news "I never got the impression Bethesda was happy with Fallout: New Vegas' reception."
Diablo 2 player seethes for 8 months after hardcore betrayal, befriends one of the gankers before obliterating their character out of nowhere: 'Now we're even'
By Rich Stanton published
news This is the kind of pettiness you can only admire.
'Disgruntled' engineer gets fired for porn on work laptop, claims he was watching the Matrix, revenge-hacks employer's IT network, lies to the secret service, goes directly to jail
By Rich Stanton published
news Neo way.
Creator behind hugely popular Skyrim co-op mod gives up on the Starfield version of it because, drum roll please, 'this game is f***ing trash'
By Rich Stanton published
news "I didn't realize this until after I actually started playing the damn game a week after launch."
Cyberpunk 2077 comes full circle with Sad Keanu meme
By Rich Stanton published
news The 2.1 update quietly added a moment of internet history.
YouTuber who deliberately crashed plane for content then lied about it is jailed for six months, even he admits it's the 'right decision'
By Rich Stanton published
news Also thanks the judge for "giving me a second chance at life."
GTA 6's first trailer has recreations of a load of real viral video moments in it, and it looks like Rockstar's version of TikTok will play a big part
By Rich Stanton published
news Please don't call it DickTok.