Rich Stanton
Contributor
Rich Stanton has been writing for Eurogamer since 2011, and also contributes to places like Edge, Nintendo Gamer, and PC Gamer. He lives in Bath, and is Terran for life.
Featured articles
Feature | Becoming the Dark Soul
From the archive: Rich Stanton goes in pursuit of the game's crowning achievement.
Feature | Things fall apart: Looking back at Resident Evil 5
Capcom's co-op emphasis deserves more respect argues Rich Stanton.
Feature | Microsoft's mixed messages at E3 aren't pretty for Xbox One owners
The great teraflip-flop.
Review | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan review
Licences mean compromise. Turtle power!
Feature | Dark Souls 3's multiplayer is a very different, absolutely brilliant take on online
Less mystery, more action.
Essential | Dark Souls 3 review
Third time's the charm.
Feature | Resident Evil - 20 years on
“Victims... were apparently eaten.”
Feature | A celebration of Lionhead's finest games
One of Albion's greatest legends.
Feature | A brief history of one of gaming's greatest studios
Infinite climax action: Rich Stanton celebrates Platinum Games on its 10th anniversary.
Feature | Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker - Portable perfection
“Peace won't just come to us. We are going to have to meet it halfway.”
Review | Not a Hero review
Not bad at all.
Review | The Westport Independent review
It's about ethics in real journalism.
Recommended | Yakuza 5 review
Shenmue's true heir.
Feature | What's going on in Bloodborne: The Old Hunters?
Man's inhumanity to man. The new lore explored and explained.
Essential | Bloodborne: The Old Hunters review
The one reborn.
Feature | Metal Gear Solid 4: Rinse, repeat, resolve?
The games industry strikes back.
Feature | Rich Stanton on: From Billions to Bedrooms
Life in the sausage factory.
Feature | Rich Stanton on: Year Walk and the future Nintendo predicted
Finally Wii U makes sense.
Feature | Nintendo's new boss faces the most pivotal year in the company's history
Tatsumi Kimishima: CEO of quality?
Feature | All about that base: Metal Gear Solid 5's FOBs are glorious
And the microtransactions aren't an issue, yet.
Essential | Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain review
Living the dream.
Feature | Metal Gear Solid 3: From Russia with love
“You're pretty good.”
Review | Devil's Third review
Don't settle for bronze.
Feature | Metal Gear Solid 2: The first postmodern video game
"Don't point that thing everywhere kid."
Feature | Metal Gear Solid: The first modern video game
"You're very frank for a trained killer."
Feature | Rich Stanton on: Playing human in Earthbound
Why some virtual worlds feel real.
Feature | Rich Stanton on: Virtual insanity
Nothing's Better Than Life.
Essential | Heroes of the Storm review
Parallel lanes.
Feature | Rich Stanton on: The Koj delusion
Is Metal Gear Solid provocative or just perverse?
Essential | Bloodborne review
The second coming.
Feature | Is Bloodborne the best game ever, or just the second best?
Early impressions of the PS4 exclusive ahead of our review.
Feature | Rich Stanton on: Other worlds and the inner eye
Why what we see is always what we think we see.
Recommended | Resident Evil Revelations 2 review
'You were almost a genre sandwich!'
Feature | Two years on, DmC takes its rightful place in the series
How and why Capcom and Ninja Theory rebooted a classic.
Feature | Have GTA's Heists been worth the wait?
First impressions of Grand Theft Auto Online's biggest scores.
Feature | Rich Stanton on: Requiem for a dreamer
The god-damned tragedy of Peter Molyneux.
Feature | Rich Stanton on: Cheesing Destiny
"It feels like Destiny has driven certain of its players mad."
Feature | Games of 2014: Far Cry 4
The Kyrat's whiskers.
Feature | Rich Stanton on: GTA's growing pains
The tone problem in Rockstar's classic series.
Feature | Half-Life 2: 10 years on
You remember, don't you, Mr Freeman?
Feature | Who framed Roger Ebert?
From the archive: Press A to Art.
Feature | Telling Tales: Skyrim and Dark Souls
From the archive: When the mountain won't come to Muhammad.
Feature | Would the real Ken Levine kindly stand up?
From the archive: BioShock Infinite's creative director talks about games, politics and throwing himself on the fire.
Feature | My life as a Pokémon trafficker
I love you Ditto - the story of one game's strange effect on a player.
Feature | Viewtiful Joe retrospective
Some like it REEEED HOT!