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

Valve's Deadlock has finally been announced, and it's as much a MOBA as it is a shooter
By Rich Stanton published
No More Secrets Those poor Team Fortress 2 fans.

As scandal surrounds the MrBeast empire, MrBeast lawyers up and goes into bunker mode
By Rich Stanton published
news Things are suddenly going very wrong for Jimmy Donaldson.

Even Phil Spencer's been bugging Todd Howard to get vehicles in Starfield: 'Come on Todd… I'm tired of walking'
By Rich Stanton published
news Space bugging… get it?

Twitch launches new Drop Ins collaboration feature but doesn't let streamers opt out: 'You can't turn it off'
By Rich Stanton published
news "This is so unnecessarily forced."

Even Disney has realized that trying to use the Disney+ terms of service to wriggle out of a wrongful death lawsuit was a terrible idea
By Rich Stanton published
news The House of Louse.

Internet Archive preserves and releases 1980s PC radio show that interviewed legends including Douglas Adams, Bill Gates, Timothy Leary, and Jack Tramiel
By Rich Stanton published
news The Famous Computer Cafe aired in California in the early 1980s.

Valve says 'we've decided to draw a clear line' and bans Snap Tap keyboard automation from Counter-Strike 2
By Rich Stanton published
news What do you mean I have to press three keys at once?!?

'Britain's Bill Gates' among 6 missing after luxury yacht tragedy off coast of Sicily: 'We should have found something by now'
By Rich Stanton published
news Computer entrepreneur Mike Lynch recently won a long-running legal battle against HP.

Black Myth: Wukong has some bonkers streamer guidelines about not using the game to spread 'feminist propaganda' or discuss anything about China
By Rich Stanton published
news Monkey business.

Borderlands to release on streaming services less than a month after its catastrophic cinematic debut
By Rich Stanton published
news When even Uwe Boll is laughing at you, something's gone wrong.

Even Uwe Boll is dunking on the abominable Borderlands movie—'Now you wish I directed!'
By Rich Stanton published
news Not sure we do mate.

Blizzard is still updating Heroes of the Storm on an almost monthly basis, and I just think that's nice
By Rich Stanton published
news Those shrubs won't fix themselves.

Russian chess player faces jail after video shows her allegedly poisoning opponent with mercury: 'I've never seen anything like this'
By Rich Stanton published
news Bad move.

Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster achieves exactly what it set out to do—but maybe that's not enough
By Rich Stanton published
Willa Met Frankness is a virtue.

I've been watching this dude play Grand Theft Auto 4 with the traffic at 9999999 'warp speed' and it's both hilarious and some sort of surrealist masterpiece
By Rich Stanton published
news Ever seen a city's worth of cars fly over the sea?

Borderlands film goes from disaster to farce as the guy who rigged Claptrap says neither he nor the model artist are credited
By Rich Stanton published
news "I worked on him for 5 consecutive months."

Turkey just straight-up banned Roblox for 'child exploitation'
By Rich Stanton published
news Tell us what you really think.

A pedophile used Roblox to groom, abduct and sexually assault a 15-year-old girl, a full 18 months after the community had outed him as a predator
By Rich Stanton published
news New data shows US police have arrested "at least 2 dozen" people since 2018 "accused of abducting or abusing victims" they'd met on Roblox.

IRL Squid Game competitors complain it was too real, reporting injuries and poor treatment as they fought for $5 million beneath a grinning MrBeast: 'We're all just looking up at the sky, screaming at him like he's god'
By Rich Stanton published
news Are you not entertained?

Diablo 4 players finally unearth a secret ring they've been looking for since it launched over a year ago—and it's utter trash
By Rich Stanton published
news But what if it somehow unlocks cows?

Elon Musk says his brainchip patients will soon 'outperform a pro gamer', then takes a big old puff and says 'let’s give people superpowers'
By Rich Stanton published
News What could go wrong!

The grandest WoW guilds raced for a world first raid clear hinged on a new secret boss, and the winner was 'None of the Above'
By Rich Stanton published
news It's getting hot in here!

Japanese man gets jailed for repeated death and bomb threats that saw multiple Nintendo events cancelled, judge excoriates 'selfish motive' and 'persistent and vicious' behaviour
By Rich Stanton published
news The defendant's online losses apparently inspired the crimes.