Latest articles by Rich Stanton
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'
news Sometimes you make your own luck.
OpenAI, a company built on 'scraping' content without permission, makes a copyright claim against a subreddit using its logo
news OpenAIrony is dead.
Gee that Lord of the Rings: Gollum game sucked didn't it, so how about a Gollum movie?
news Warner Bros. cranks up the marketing machine once more on the precious.
As warriors age, so must the battlefield: 1vs1 me on LinkedIn, coward
news Three new games aim to get more people using the corporate social network regularly.
Helldivers 2's themes are bleeding into its community management, and creating a new standard in live storytelling
news Arrowhead has engaged a playerbase at scale, and made them feel they have a degree of control in how this game evolves.
Legendary creator Shinji Mikami has one word for Microsoft shutting down the studio he founded: 'Sad'
news Mikami founded Tango Gameworks in 2010, and it was closed yesterday.
Helldivers 2 patch sneaks out the revelation that when we killed 2 billion bugs in a day, that was actually a bug
news It's also nixed a persistent crash issue that I've had a bunch.
EA CEO says they've learned 'valuable lessons', so the next Battlefield is going to be 'another tremendous live service'
news Blame it on the Battlefield 2042 players who "made it clear that they wanted an even deeper experience."
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
news The Alpha Black Lotus is now the single most valuable card in existence.
Helldivers 2's next warbond makes slowdown an unpatriotic thing of the past with 'motivational shocks'
news "Literally shocks Helldivers back into action."
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'
news "I already feel like I'm a part of it."
Manor Lords publisher says the game's success is 'well beyond what we could have hoped'
news "But ultimately Greg's making the decisions and driving the development: he is the developer."
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'
news Do it Todd.
Todd Howard is a good boy after all—warned his mum that the Fallout show's full of 'sex, violence, and bad words'
news "I do give a mature warning to like my family."
Walton Goggins reveals that parts of the Fallout show were filmed at a diamond mine where 'there's still diamonds on the ground'
news "The photographer caught me trying to find one... without my hands!!"
Fallout 4's most popular mods are now ones that remove Bethesda's disastrous 'next gen' update
news They just work.
Counter-Strike gives the people what they want: 'Fine'
news Players can now switch between holding their weapons on the left or right side.
Helldivers 2 players complete another major order by the skin of their teeth, and some can't help but feel Joel's going easy on them
news Still, we did scrap an awful lot of bots.
It took 30 years, but a speedrunner's finished Doom 2's opening level in an unbelievable 4.97 seconds
news Hurt me plenty.
Deep Rock Galactic Survivor sails past a million sold as developers salute players' 'ravenous appetite' for space dwarf content
news Rock and stone and lots of cash.
A Konami code variant in Castlevania has been discovered after a quarter of a century
news The cheat remained hidden in Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness for 25 years.
Blizzard says it does pay attention to the 'shoutiest of the shouty' but WoW's Plunderstorm mode 'is not a failure'
news "We kind of expected it: it's PvP."
