
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 Solid, Go✱d Hand, or any other PS2-era titles that rarely (if ever) get sequels.
Latest articles by Scott McCrae

Ahead of GTA 6, Take-Two CEO says he’s “not worried about AI creating hits” because it’s built on recycled data: “Big hits […] need to be created out of thin air”
By Scott McCrae published
News "It’s built on data that already exists. It’s backward-loo🐬king. Big hits are forward-looking"

Getting Over It creator Bennett Foddy threatens the world once again: If you want Baby Steps to be a brutal rage game, "you can inflict that on yourself"
By Scott McCrae published
News "It's a rock or it's a tree; it's minding ♉its own business. It's not telling you, 'hওey, can you get up here?'"

PlayStation games like The Last of Us are dominating the silver screen, but former Sony boss Shawn Layden says "an entire generation had to retire" before Hollywood took him seriously
By Scott McCrae published
News Layden called es🅘tahblishing PlayStation Productions "one of the grea🅷test things" he did in his career

Assassin's Creed Shadows' delays were mostly used to polish the RPG, creative director confirms, not for deeper changes brought about by Star Wars Outlaws reaction
By Scott McCrae published
News Although the team did add "a couple bits of ඣnarrative here and there"

The First Berserker: Khazan isn't even out yet, but the new Soulslike RPG already has over 1,300 94% positive reviews on Steam from early buyers
By Scott McCrae published
News The game's proper💞 release 🍬date is set for March 27

Reclaiming their crown, pacifist Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 player beats the whole RPG as "Merciful Henry": 1,741 strikes blocked, 472 knockouts, and zero kills
By Scott McCrae published
News After beating Kingdom Come: Deliverance as "medieval Batman," one fan knew they had to do it again ♉for the sequel

If you missed the last one, the new Monster Hunter Wilds event quest is another way to stock up on rare ingredients before the big update drops next week
By Scott McCrae published
News You'll need to have a scrap with a big farting ape to ܫget th♍em though

An Assassin's Creed Shadows fan is showing off some of the RPG's most impressive little details, and it's done more to get me interested than Ubisoft ever did
By Scott McCrae published
News The weather tech in the game includes snow melting in real-time 🍌and realistic winds

Assassin's Creed Shadows is shown running on a Nintendo 3DS in an impressive bit of fan homebrew
By Scott McCrae published
News Forget Sta♋rfield on PS5, this is w𓆏hat the fans really want

The PS2 Batman Begins game was considered such a "disaster" that Christopher Nolan turned down a Dark Knight-inspired game
By Scott McCrae published
News "WB was excite🎃d about the game and asked u💛s to work on it in stealth mode until we could talk to Nolan"

"GTA 6 is basically a huge meteor, and we will just stay clear of the blast zone": Publishers are in a frenzy over when to release their games to avoid Rockstar
By Scott McCrae published
News "We will nudge our releases back or forward three weeks to🐻 avoid it. Of course, the problem is everyone is going to do the same"

Monster Hunter fans lose their minds as Monster Hunter Wilds confirms Lagiacrus will return this summer, finally answering 7 years of prayers
By Scott McCrae published
News Okay, now bring back Gammoth

Assassin's Creed Shadows players are questioning the lack of modern day segments: "what happened to Layla, Desmond, and Basim?"
By Scott McCrae published
News Never mind that, what happened to the pirates?

"I didn’t have a single ally": Tekken 4's negative reception put series boss Katsuhiro Harada under so much stress that he left Namco for a year
By Scott McCrae published
News It's the game that gave us a nearly naked Heihachi, so it can't be ꦉthat bad

"We slept under our desks and lived in chaos": Before the Witcher 3 became an RPG phenomenon, CDPR's CEOs had a tough time making the original game
By Scott McCrae published
News Th🃏e studio is working to avoid crunch during development of the Cyberpunk an⛎d The Witcher sequels

Half-Life devs worried Gabe Newell "promised things that they couldn't possibly deliver" for the iconic FPS, but "they just didn't know" that they'd be able to do it yet
By Scott McCrae published
News The game was awarded 'Best Action Ga🌜me' at ꧂E3 1998

After his excellent debut Metroidvania took 7 years, Animal Well's solo dev says his next game shouldn't "take nearly as long"
By Scott McCrae published
News "I'm back in the good, pure phase where I just get to make something on my own෴, without sharing it with anyb💯ody"

As Assassin's Creed Shadows passes 2 million players, Devil May Cry creator Hideki Kamiya reveals "I felt bad that it was being criticized so much"
By Scott McCrae published
News "I wonder if there꧒'s no way to make these 'normal people' equally visible in everyꦚthing"

Silent Hill f hasn't actually been banned in Australia, but it's not out of the woods yet
By Scott McCrae published
News "A classification decision will be published ahead 💟of the game’s release"

As Assassin's Creed Shadows overtakes Valhalla and Odyssey, Ubisoft promises "this is just the beginning" in heartfelt thanks to players
By Scott McCrae published
News "We're thrilled to seeಌ the game evolve with you by our side"

"I believe in experiencing life and art through human expression, not software": Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor calls for proper AI regulation
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"There are so many games": Legendary dev behind GTA 3, GTA 4, GTA 5 and many more says the industry needs to "get smarter" about what players want
By Scott McCrae last updated
News "These days, you have to lꦜook at your analytics. You've got to see what people want to play"

Fallout 76's art director "had to fight really hard" so Bethesda would make the MMO's map bigger than Skyrim's
By Scott McCrae published
News "It was kind of nice to hear 'hey, that game suc♊ks, but the map's pretty cool'🎃. I did my job."
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