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

GTA 6
GTA 6's weather is completely re-done from Red Dead Redemption 2, has hurricanes, rainbows and more

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News Rockstar's going above and beyond once again

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Deadlock
Deadlock smashes Steam record following new update with over 228,000 concurrent players

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News The shooter is continuing to grow while in beta

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Arc Raiders raider in skull cap
Arc Raiders devs "were super unhappy" and "super tired" after the shooter's huge launch, lead says

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Embark's trying to find a way of working that doesn't wear out its devs

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The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past expansion screenshot
The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past is happening because devs believe "there is still more to say"

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News So now he's heading down to Lettenhove for some tea and monsters

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Kyle's Gone Missing in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
WoW: Forever isn't about the expansions, but Blizzard is making an exception for a Make-a-Wish quest

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Players would like a certain 19-year-old quest to return

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Morrowind
Massive bit of Elder Scrolls lore from Morrowind is actually because of "a typo"

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Bethesda decided to embrace chaos post-Daggerfall

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Geralt rides a horse through a swamp in The Witcher 3 Remastered.
The Witcher 3 Remaster overhauls skill trees, adds new quest markers, and more, CDPR reveals

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Meditation's a little more interesting too

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Diablo 4
Diablo 4's 30th anniversary event is "pretty distasteful," Path of Exile co-creator says

By Anthony McGlynn Published

Don't get him started on Blizzard's promotion of the series antagonist

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Diablo
LA Noire
Forget Red Dead Redemption 3, Rockstar's next game is LA Noire 2 according to a GTA 6 leaker

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Take-Two has managed to go through the studio's back catalog

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Wardogs character points weapon at the camera
As Wardogs sells 3 million copies, lead admits the devs are "overwhelmed," taking forced holidays

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Bulkhead's been on the back foot since the game went fully public

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Counter-Strike 2 release trailer screenshot showing an old-style white desktop PC running the Counter-Strike menu atop a wooden desk
PC gaming has more than doubled in size over the last 4 years in Japan, report finds

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Left 4 Dead and Terraria top the list of popular games

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GTA 6
GTA 6 on Nintendo Switch 2 "doesn't make sense" says former Rockstar dev

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News He doesn't completely discount the idea

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Asha Sharma in black shirt
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma called out for "Kojima-maxxing" just before latest layoffs

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Microsoft laid off a number of World's Edge devs recently

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GTA 6
Xbox is "very happy with GTA 6 pre-orders," exec claims they match "our share of the console market"

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Rockstar's upcoming blockbuster is apparently setting records for Microsoft

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GTA 6
GTA 6's $400 collectible spoon is actually a reference to another, far more expensive GTA spoon

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Rockstar's been in the cutlery game for a minute

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GTA 6
GTA 6 Collector's Box is $400 and doesn't have the game, but you do get a spoon, stickers, and more

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Rockstar's even throwing in a pair of Oakleys

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Palworld 1.0 launch trailer screenshot shows several cute Pals eating fruit from a basket.
Palworld lead says survival game genre has "found its stride" with the likes of Valheim 1.0 and Dune

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News And of course, the Pocketpair-published Windrose

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Quake Champions
4 years after full launch, Quake Champions is a paid game on Steam with no microtransactions

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News The changes come amid ongoing restructuring at Xbox

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Normal Golf Game
Steam rewards iconic indie dev with 98% Very Positive reviews on his unhinged golf game

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News The creator of Fruit Ninja is back at it

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Four adventurers stand in a row in Nodusfall representing each class in the game
Nodusfall looks like Elden Ring but was "designed to be accessible," says Hoyoverse

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News The Genshin Impact devs aren't looking to put people through the wringer

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Wardogs soldier running
Wardogs boss admits Bulkhead is "failing on getting Infantry servers to you guys"

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News He believes upcoming seasons will propel the FPS forward

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Gabe Newell talking to the angel on his shoulder
Gabe Newell made Steam after going "f*** these publishers," Counter-Strike co-creator believes

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Spite is a powerful motivator

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Stellar Blade
Stellar Blade devs only had enough money to survive "for about 3 months" at one point

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News The action series almost died before it even started

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Helldivers 2 soldier in intro animation with shocked expression
Helldivers 2 disables the DSS buff that's been a team-killing monster for months

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News The DSS Eagle Storm is out of action

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Monster Hunter Wilds
After Monster Hunter Wilds' PC woes, lead says making games "perform well" needs "time and research"

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News The studio is learning from the PC feedback

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