
Scott McCrae
Scott has been freelancing for o🍎ver 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, God Hand, or any other PS2-era titles that rarely (if ever) get sequels.
Latest articles by Scott McCrae

Onimusha: Way of the Sword director would much rather "express the clashing of blades" in a franchise revival than turn it into a Soulslike: "It certainly isn't a punishing die-and-retry game"
By Scott McCrae published
News The action game revival is coming

10 years ago, Sega producer was convinced he had to "save" Sonic the Hedgehog from certain death: "This brand isn't going to be around for much longer"
By Scott McCrae published
News 🔯"The Sonic brand was not in a very positive spa💯ce"

After 2 underrated tactical RPGs on Switch, Mario + Rabbids developer Ubisoft Milan's pitch for another game was apparently turned down, which may explain why it's now working on Rayman
By Scott McCrae published
News The series' director Davide Solian♛i lef🌌t Ubisoft in 2024

GTA 5's worst mission isn't just hated by fans, as its actor says it was "hands down the worst to shoot" because he "sweated my ass off for 8 hours"
By Scott McCrae published
News Calling it the worst is a bit of a stretch

Nintendo proves nothing is too niche for Mario Kart World's massive soundtrack with a remix of a drawing tutorial from a late 2000s DSi app
By Scott McCrae published
News Take a page and a pen, draw a big mushroom

Donkey Kong Country's 90s cartoon is now free to watch on YouTube if you fancy seeing the peak of musical cartoons and early motion-captured CGI
By Scott McCrae published
News Forget Fallout and The Last of Us.

Dying Light: The Beast dev reveals the unlikely inspiration for Kyle Crane's new abilities – "I think of Pac-Man as a survival horror game"
By Scott McCrae published
News No, he doesn't eat the zombies... I hope.

Switch 2 broke Pikmin 3 Deluxe with visual glitches and crashes, but Nintendo has swiftly patched it up so you can enjoy the Wii U banger once more
By Scott McCrae published
News Pikmin 3 is back at Peakmin status

As Donkey Kong Bananza reveals full-blown voice acting, Pokemon fans are wondering when they will be spared from the awkward silences
By Scott McCrae published
News Donkey Kong is in mus𒊎ical number territory, while Pokemon is in lip-syncing si💖lence

Donkey Kong Bananza is bringing back the DK Rap, but after going uncredited for the seminal hip hop classic in the Mario Movie, the song's composer wasn't aware it was returning in the Switch 2 game
By Scott McCrae published
News G🅰rant Kirkhope created the tune as a joke and accidentally made history

The first Switch 2 post-launch update is here, and Nintendo hasn't given up on our favorite thing from the Switch era: extremely vague patch notes
By Scott McCrae published
News Big day🥀 🔥for fans of "general system stability improvements"

Nier creator Yoko Taro reckons "there’s less 'weird people'" making games nowadays although he's not sure if it's "something that's happening to the world as a whole"
By Scott McCrae published
News Yoko Taro has previousಌly called esoteri⛎c titles like Ico "epoch-making"

Donkey Kong Bananza reveals a co-op multiplayer mode that sure looks like something the Mario Odyssey team would cook up
By Scott McCrae published
News Pauline caꦚn use the power of singing to blast away enemies

GTA 3 could have been the debut of GTA Online, according to Rockstar veteran who says online play was planned as early as 2001
By Scott McCrae published
News It 🐓was in the works for Vice City too, but for San Andreas "we didn't♒ even try"

Stellar Blade studio reportedly acquires Switch 2 devkits, but also say nothing has been confirmed regarding its plans for Nintendo's new console
By Scott McCrae published
News The studio also gifted its developers Nintendo𒀰 Switch 2 consoles to celebrate the 3 m𝔍illion copies sold

Onimusha: Way of the Sword started development in 2020, but it took 2 years to get late samurai movie star Toshiro Mifune's likeness for the protagonist
By Scott McCrae published
News The idea to have Mifune came from the game's direcꦫtor trying to visualize "what i🔥t is about samurai that makes them actually cool"

Forget the $100 and $130 Deluxe editions, Borderlands 4 has a "pretty rad" collector's edition that doesn't include the game for the low, low price of $150
By Scott McCrae published
News Or you can wait until January when you will probably be able to pick it𒊎 up for $40

"Is that enough to get DMC6 going?" asks Nero's voice actor, joining series fans, as Devil May Cry 5 passes 10 million sales
By Scott McCrae published
News That📖 places Devil May Cry 5 just shy of bei⛄ng one of Capcom's top 10 best-selling games of all time

Final Fantasy Tactics remaster doesn't include content from the strategy RPG's beloved PSP port War of the Lions: "The most appropriate path for us was to pay respect to the original game"
By Scott McCrae published
News The War of the Lions translation will be included in the original version of the game included in 💮The Ivalice Chronicles

Borderlands 4 has "a huge slate of post-launch content planned," and its "Bounty Packs are going to be similar to Headhunter Packs from Borderlands 2"
By Scott McCrae published
News The Headhunter Packs were $3 ea🍷ch, while the deluxe edition with four Bounty Packs is $30 extra.

24 years after launching Nexus Mods, the founder of the worlds biggest modding site is stepping back for health reasons: "The strain of being responsible for the behemoth I created has taken its toll"
By Scott McCrae published
News "I firmly bel✃ieve that the best thing for the future of Nexus Mods is for me to step aside"

Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada has been dumping lore about the series over the weekend, including why Heihachi has around 25 kids
By Scott McCrae published
News He also dropped the m🐼ost convenient reason possible for Ogre to return as a playable character

Donkey Kong Bananza is getting its own dedicated Nintendo Direct this Wednesday, with "roughly 15 minutes of information" about the next big Switch 2 game
By Scott McCrae published
News Here he comes, banana slamma

Stellar Blade's huge PC launch rakes in 1 million sales in just 3 days, taking the action RPG across the 3 million sales mark as its Steam player peak continues to reach new heights
By Scott McCrae published
News The new Chinese dub rep꧙ortedly cau🍎sed a surge in sales from players in China

Stellar Blade's director says that Shift Up is positive about the game's modding scene, but he's looking forward to mods that meaningfully expand the action RPG instead of… y'know
By Scott McCrae published
News The direct✨or also hopes that players won't sell mods, and trusts them to steer clear of "anti-social" and "sentsitive" mods
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