Author: Rich Stanton

Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy was both a blessing and a curse for J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels. A blessing in that they arguably remain the greatest-ever adaptation of a fantasy world into cinema, faithfully reimagining the books’ beats and characters with a grandeur yet to be surpassed. And the curse was their success, instantly…

OpenAI is a company built on the work of others. Techbros may hail CEO Sam Altman as some sort of digital messiah but, with apologies to Monty Python, really he’s just a very naughty boy, who understands that if OpenAI hoovers up as much content as it can to train its models, then all we…

LinkedIn, the email spam service associated with a B2B social network, has made its move into gaming. Not with a LinkedIn-branded golf putting kit, which surely would’ve nailed the target audience: LinkedIn has started with three simple browser games that can be played daily and, here’s the kicker, track and share stats across networks. Yes,…

Shinji Mikami is one of the greatest developers that games have so far seen. He spent his early years at Capcom and, among many other games, created the Resident Evil series, returning to direct the standout Resident Evil 4, before becoming a key member of the legendary Clover Studio. He and others left Capcom to…

In January 2021, Magic: The Gathering had one of those moments that went mainstream. The sale of a single Black Lotus card, an extreme rarity from the game’s first-ever set of cards, reached a final amount of $511,100 in an eBay auction. Previous examples of the Alpha Black Lotus (the first series of MTG cards…

Helldivers 2 has announced its next warbond, the game’s equivalent of battle passes, will arrive on May 9 and is going to take the temperature of this war all the way down. Polar Patriots leads with the line that “a deep freeze is coming to the galaxy” before introducing a plethora of cold-themed armor, new…

It’s been a decade since Fallout 4, and 13 years since The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim. Since then Bethesda hasn’t been sitting on its hands, with Fallout 76 releasing in 2018 and of course the studio’s main focus for several years being Starfield. But fans could occasionally be forgiven for wondering just how long these…

Amid the positive reception and general hype for the series created by Amazon’s excellent Fallout series, Bethesda did the most Bethesda thing it possibly could have done. As players rushed back to the various games in the series, Bethesda released a major “next gen” update for Fallout 4, arguably the best entry point for new…

Speedrunner 4shockblast recently broke a record that had stood for many years on Doom 2’s opening map, Entryway. Their new world record run is a masterclass in eking every possible advantage out of the map and the various speedrunning tricks Doom 2 players have discovered over the years. It’s not just a new record: it’s…

With only hours to go, things were not looking good for Helldivers 2’s latest major order. These come down from on-high with regularity, and shape the game’s ongoing galactic war: in this case, Super Earth tasked the Helldivers with successfully liberating 10 planets from enemy takeover. Earlier in the week things looked a bit grim,…