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

Cyberpunk 2 lead says extending Cyberpunk 2077 Act 1 would be like having "more time on Tattooine with farmer Luke"
By Anthony McGlynn published
News Igor Sarzyński believes CD Projekt Red approached this stretch properly

Arc Raiders players say there's "cheating like crazy," former FPS pro says it "might be worse than peak Call of Duty"
By Anthony McGlynn published
News Stella Montis is becoming a hotbed

Jennifer Hale has "no idea" if Shepard will return in Mass Effect 5, but if you ask nicely, maybe BioWare will listen
By Anthony McGlynn published
News The long-awaited sequel remains in development

Lies of P publisher plans to keep introducing "successful IP," but more of the hit soulslike is "a given"
By Anthony McGlynn published
News Neowiz will keep spotlighting South Korean devs, too

Arc Raiders just hit 12 million copies sold, analyst estimates, sets new active players record 2 months after launch
By Anthony McGlynn published
News Embark Studios truly has a hit on its hands

While playing Arc Raiders, Embark leads clarify they only added true "aggression-based" matchmaking fairly recently
By Anthony McGlynn published
News "It's not a full science"

League of Legends was down yesterday unless you reset your system clock, because Riot forgot to update a certificate
By Anthony McGlynn published
News Riot Games may need better internal reminders

Red Dead Redemption 2 players discover new easter egg after 7 years, and they're trying to figure it out before GTA 6
By Anthony McGlynn published
News What connects spiders and guitars?

Hytale lead says "it's a damn miracle we were able to salvage" the Minecraft-like: "It should have taken years to fix"
By Anthony McGlynn published
News "And now, instead of slowing down or celebrating a release, we have to keep pushing for years"

Stardew Valley creator donates $125,000 with a "monthly commitment" to open-source framework his hit farming sim uses
By Anthony McGlynn published
News Eric Barone is keeping dev tools open and easier to access

Final Fantasy 14 lead Yoshi-P reportedly teases ports for Switch and Switch 2, asking fans of the MMO to "please wait"
By Anthony McGlynn published
News FF14 could finally be going handheld

Deltarune creator reveals Chapter 5 dialogue that's got fans in a frenzy ahead of the RPG's new episode later this year
By Anthony McGlynn published
News We'll be deploying an Annoying Dog at some point

Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P calls Ghost of Yotei "outstanding" and says it's the 2025 game "I still find myself playing"
By Anthony McGlynn published
News The SquareEnix developer loved the reaction of Mount Yotei especially

Hades 2's new ending was "was created in response to player feedback," and not part of Supergiant's original plan
By Anthony McGlynn published
News "We conceived of it as a game where listening to and responding to player feedback would be core to the development process"

FromSoftware head Hidetaka Miyazaki says games like Elden Ring and Dark Souls aren't "simply cranking up the difficulty"
By Anthony McGlynn published
News "We believe in difficult games, but not games that are unjustly or unfairly so."

Sephiroth's cutscene with Jenova in FF7 terrified one of the producers: "I felt like I was going to have a heart attack"
By Anthony McGlynn published
News And Vincent is nowhere to be seen

Rockstar's wildest ideas "wouldn't have been as good as GTA," says ex lead, who respects Larian ditching Baldur's Gate 4
By Anthony McGlynn published
News Larian Studios is returning to Divinity instead

Assassin's Creed Shadows' Yasuke and Naoe could influence how future protagonists in Ubisoft's open-world games move
By Anthony McGlynn published
News The contrast between them is of particular interest

Dark Souls and Elden Ring director "wouldn't necessarily say" that FromSoftware invented the Soulslike genre
By Anthony McGlynn published
News Miyazaki-san believes players were searching for these kind of games already

OG Counter-Strike co-creator has "some regrets" over leaving: "If I had stayed, I probably could have retired by now"
By Anthony McGlynn published
News Minh 'Gooseman' Le left to work on different games

OG Mass Effect Shephard actors would be there "with bells on" if BioWare brought them back for Mass Effect 5
By Anthony McGlynn published
News Jennifer Hale and Mark Meer are ready and willing

Bethesda design director wants a Fallout 5 you could play for 600 hours because "that's the kind of games we make"
By Anthony McGlynn published
News "I would be happy with a game that is as successful as the previous Fallout games"

Arc Raiders players are losing firefights due to unhelpful glitch that prevents them from taking out their weapon
By Anthony McGlynn published
News Embark Studios hasn't addressed the problem
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