Anthony McGlynn

Anthony McGlynn

Contributing Writer

Anthony is an Irish entertainment and games journalist, now based in Glasgow. He previously served as Senior Anime Writer at Dexerto and News Editor at The Digital Fix, on top of providing work for Variety, IGN, Den of Geek, PC Gamer, and many more. Besides Studio Ghibli, horror movies, and The Muppets, he enjoys action-RPGs, heavy metal, and pro-wrestling. He interviewed Animal once, not that he won’t stop going on about it or anything.

Latest articles by Anthony McGlynn

Hideo Kojima seen in Xbox's 2026 Tokyo Game Show broadcast.
Hideo Kojima is still posting cryptic photos with Sony despite breaking up over Physint

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Perhaps some other collaboration is on the horizon

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GTA 6 screenshot shows a sports car parked on a street at night, looking at an illuminated row of buildings.
GTA 6 is still undergoing changes despite releasing next month, Rockstar boss says

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News There are a lot of moving parts

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Diablo 5
Diablo 5 has officially started filming cinematics for Blizzard's upcoming action-RPG

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News The sequel to Diablo 4 is coming together

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GTA 6
GTA 6 will be eligible for 2026 GOTY at The Game Awards, but Rockstar is barely beating the buzzer

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Getting in just before the deadline

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Cartman, Eric, Kenny, and Kyle in an episode of South Park
The 25 best South Park episodes of all time, mmkay

By Vikki Blake Last updated

Best List Our comprehensive ranking of the 25 best South Park episodes of all time, going from season 1 all the way through to the ongoing season 28

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Diablo 4
Diablo 4 update fixes problem preventing players from completing the Season 15 questline properly

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Blizzard might want to address the outcry

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Geralt frowning, looking at a fire
Henry Cavill brought Geralt voice actor Doug Cockle to a Witcher premiere, but only after he had to prove his identity

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Cockle's wary of everyone online, and he's dead right

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Tom Cruise in Digger
Kojima sympathizes with Digger flopping – people also wrote off Death Stranding without playing it

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Alejandro González Iñárritu and the games creator share a lot of ideas

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Arc Raiders: Frozen Trail
Arc Raiders PvE mode called "bland" and "hollow" by players who say it's ruined the tension

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Embark kicked off a testing period this week

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Palworld 1.0
Palworld isn't following Fortnite because making money "as quickly as possible" isn't the mission

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News The devs are simply driven by whether something sounds cool

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Max Payne jumping and shooting in Max Payne 3
Max Payne 3 was a "failure," says Dan Houser, because despite writing GTA games, he's no Sam Lake

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Even the best can miss the mark

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A screenshot of Red Dead Redemption protagonist John Marston.
Rockstar didn't expect so many Red Dead Redemption players to be "livid" over the ending

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News It was a mechanical challenge for several reasons

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Approaching the final mountaintop battle in Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver
Pokemon fans made their own Wordle where you beat Gold and Silver with a random team every day

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News One of the franchise's hardest battles, over and over and over

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RimWorld
RimWorld devs are "working on something new" after 13 years of the space construction sim

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News The game is build on their new in-house engine

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Elon Musk dressed as Wario during an SNL skit
Elon Musk dressing up as Wario for SNL "did not go over well" at Nintendo, ex-marketing leads say

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Not anyone's finest hour, I don't think

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Uncharted on PS3 cover art featuring Nathan Drake
Former PlayStation boss apparently had a bold strategy for handling Sony execs – he ignored them

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Kaz Hirai knew how to move around management

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Andrew Lincoln as Rick in The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
How to watch The Walking Dead franchise in order (release and chronological)

By Amy West Last updated

News Here's how to watch The Walking Dead shows in order, including spin-offs like The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon

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Gears of War: E-Day screenshot shows Marcus holding a bottle, smiling.
As Gears of War: E-Day servers suffer DDoS attack, the devs are "continuing to monitor" the damage

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News This comes less than one week after launch

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A man is shot in Wardogs
Steam hits new all-time high of over 43 million concurrent users just 7 months after its last record

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Valve's platform is having a good 2026

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Aerith from Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth prays
Ex-PlayStation boss prefers "good 20 to 25-hour games" over 100-hour behemoths

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News The padding when you could rent games comes from the same root cause, he believes

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GTA 6
GTA 6 shows Jason nude, and fans are wondering if Rockstar will go full Red Dead Redemption 2

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News All things are possible

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Logan pounces on Sabretooth in Marvel's Wolverine
Sony is still selling tons of discs: Marvel's Wolverine launch sales were reportedly 35% physical

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Onimusha: Way of the Sword and The Blood of Dawnwalker had similar ratios

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Protagonist Jordan in a screenshot from the reveal trailer for Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.
Former Last of Us dev is glad "someone is taking big risks" when it comes to Intergalactic

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Naughty Dog is operating on a different wavelength

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Minecraft
Xbox puts former Reddit and Facebook exec in charge of Minecraft studio Mojang

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News While the former president overlooks broader franchising

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard screenshot of Solas
Dragon Age: The Veilguard failed because EA demanded yearly releases from BioWare, says former lead

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Annualization was what slayed the beast, according to Mark Darrah

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