Scott McCrae
Scott has been freelancing for over three years across a number of different gaming publications, first appearing on GamesRadar+ in 2024. He has also written for the likes of PC Gamer, Eurogamer, VG247, Play, TechRadar, and others. He's typically rambling about Metal Gear Solඣid, God Hand, or any other PS2-era titles that rarely (if ever) get sequels.
Latest articles by Scott McCrae
Monster Hunter Wilds' weakest weapon is probably my beloved hammer, but good news, bonk fans: Capcom is buffing it so hard that it can't fit it all in one patch
News Here bud, that's no a bonk machine
Fans want Star Wars Battlefront 3 so bad that they've pushed Battlefront 2 to an all-time Steam peak 8 years after launch and even mocked up a menu for a third game on their own
News The ball is in EA's court now.
Palworld dev says Pocketpair could "mass hire" to help update its survival game faster, but it won't: "That's how game companies fall into the usual traps and become slimy"
News "You risk changing the company culture"
PS5 designer Mark Cerny has platinumed poker roguelike Balatro, making him part of an elite group of 0.1% of players
News This dude beat the game on the hardest difficulty w𓄧ith all 150 Jokers, all while presumably working on the PS6
Dragon Quest 1&2 HD-2D Remake is coming to Switch 2 this October, but it looks like the JRPG is packed onto Nintendo's divisive game-key card
News The beloved JRPGs are also✱ coming to PS5, Xbox Ser♑ies X|S, PC, and the original Nintendo Switch
Metaphor: ReFantazio combat lead has crushing news for JRPG theorycrafters: lots of people think "I found a way to win that even the developers didn't anticipate!"' but "most of those methods are actually ones that we knew about"
News "That said, on rare occasions, players really do discover methods we hadn't considere🀅d"
Games made in 2 years are more exciting than games made in 8 years, indie boss says, because "6 years of that" is often "no man's land while some guy would come in and radically change the game because he played something really cool"
News "we have ple🌞nty of examples of games that w♓ere developed for a decade, if not more, and did not hit"
Years before The Witcher 3, CDPR was just trying to survive: "How do we escape annihilation?"
News The 2008 financial crisis "was🦹 a very tricky period for the company."
Hideo Kojima thought up Physint when he became sick during the pandemic and "realised that a lot of people wanted me to make something like Metal Gear"
News "This is phase two for Kojima Productions"
Despite being the father of Mario, Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto has once again affirmed Pikmin is his favourite child: "I spent a lot of time the past 5, 6 years really wanting to grow Pikmin"
News He also explained Pi꧅kmin's cameos are due to an "unwritten rule where they're okay to appear with other characters"
Delay GTA 6 again, this one-frame lighting mistake that eagle-eyed fans found in the new trailer simply will not stand: "Literally unplayable"
News "Can't believe I was so excited over this f***inꦯg h🐻unk of trash"
As calls for Star Wars Battlefront 3 grow stronger, an ex-Pandemic dev explains why the original games never got a third entry: "We started working on it and then negotiations just didn’t take off"
News "Given the time, we’d have made 🅠something really special"
Hideo Kojima doesn't want more than 150 people working on games like Death Stranding 2 thanks to a sheep herding tip from Mad Max director George Miller
News "I had to admit I went a little over 150, and we laughed ab🐻𓄧out it"
Former Star Wars Battlefront 2 dev says "we want to get the gang back together" for a potential sequel as the game surges in popularity once more
News I say bring back Super Bombad Racing
Why is Death Stranding 2 more combat-heavy? Kojima has the most Kojima explanation possible: an obscure gameplay theory he cooked up 8 years ago
News No word on ♛if the dooki🌸e grenades will have a larger role this time around
The Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller has a one-up on the Xbox Elite and DualSense Edge, as Nintendo confirms you don't need to leave your game to remap the bumper buttons
News Also the console rememb🎶ers what buttons you map for each game
As Star Wars Battlefront 2 surges in popularity once more, Andor star joins the chorus of fans begging EA for a sequel: "Give us Battlefront 3 ASAP"
News Wilmon actor Muhannad Ben Amor was 12 years old when the lﷺဣast game released, if you want to feel old
Lies of P is adding difficulty options for free alongside the Overture DLC, despite the director previously saying "We believe soulslike games shouldn’t have difficulty options"
News “We wanted to make sure a wider audience of players co⛦uld play the game"
Ubisoft casually confirms its best series is coming back with job postings for "a prestigious AAA title for the Rayman brand"
News Everybody Loves Raymand
Donkey Kong creator Shigeru Miyamoto explains the big ape's redesign was all in service of making him "more expressive"
News And he looks better than ever for it
While you were worried about $100 GTA 6, Rockstar has quietly bumped up the price of both Red Dead Redemption games in some countries
News Dutch clearly needs more money
Konami says Silent Hill f is "independent" from the rest of the series: "People who have never played the series before can enjoy it"
News If it being set outside Silent Hill didn't already give that away☂
"We wanted to do live service right": With 2.5 million players a week 1.5 years after launch, Helldivers 2 boss says it's down to "great free updates, optional paid, and long-term commitment"
News "I think this is the largest simultaneous return of pl♐ayers𝐆 for Helldivers"
