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

Hopes for Metroid Prime 2 Remastered seemingly dashed as Walmart apparently leaks it and stone-cold classic Pikmin 2 for Nintendo Switch Online's GameCube library
By Scott McCrae published
News There's now a chance for product placement to return to Pikmin 2

No Rest for the Wicked is the number 1 game on Steam right now thanks to the new co-op update
By Scott McCrae published
News After a rocky 2025, the game has a second wind

Fallout New Vegas director says he would let players set “difficulty options however they like”
By Scott McCrae published
News "When it comes to exposing data tables and letting players mod that stuff, just let 'em do whatever the heck they want"

Nintendo fans praise Smash Bros. creator for delivering a final Kirby Air Riders patch that could have easily been DLC
By Scott McCrae published
News No Rick buffs though...

Monster Hunter Wilds has sold 11 million copies, but it's barely clinging to Capcom's best-seller list
By Scott McCrae published
News Monster Hunter Rise outperformed it too

Nintendo 64 classic Banjo-Kazooie gets fanmade PC port with 60 FPS and widescreen
By Scott McCrae published
News Plus, it already supports a number of N64 mods

Fable developer Playground Games first spoke about "doing something" other than Forza Horizon back in 2017
By Scott McCrae published
News "The conversation around building a second team and doing something else, doing something different, was really about wanting to challenge ourselves"

Baldur's Gate 3 modder pillages the depths of Early Access to bring back "more than 1,000 lines of voiced dialogue"
By Scott McCrae published
News If there was ever a game that was in desperate need of more dialogue...

New Dragon Ball game coming in 2027 features character designs from late series creator Akira Toriyama
By Scott McCrae published
News Age 1000 will be shown off again in April

Xbox Game Studios boss has played a "bunch" of the Fable reboot, and his "brain pops" thinking about its 1,000 NPCS
By Scott McCrae published
News "I've messed around with the combat and the Living Population, and it's just mind blowing"

New Mario merch will tell you the wrong time and can only be temporarily silenced, but it's won fans over
By Scott McCrae published
News "A clock that bold-face lies to you is the funniest f**king thing ever dude"

Palworld dev Pocketpair won't hire anyone with no Steam playtime, CEO explains: "We will, in principle, pass them on"
By Scott McCrae published
News Palworld lead Bucky can vouch for it, too

Author who inspired JRPG hits Shin Megami Tensei and Persona says devs need to draw ideas from media other than games
By Scott McCrae published
News "If there are only works that are made with a tendency to become hits, the market won’t expand"

Live service dominated 2025 as both PlayStation and Xbox's top 10 US best sellers were almost entirely multiplayer games
By Scott McCrae published
News Even Nintendo had a ton of multiplayer hits

Game Freak's Beast of Reincarnation isn't just being made by the Pokemon studio, but also "a lot of partner companies"
By Scott McCrae published
News "We're lucky to have a lot of people working on it externally as well"

As Final Fantasy 7 Remake arrives on Switch 2, lead encourages Smash Bros fans to play his game
By Scott McCrae published
News "Through the remake series, you can discover the origins and stories of these characters"

OG Fallout lead says his studio's upcoming steampunk RPG "is our most ambitious title, probably by a factor of 10"
By Scott McCrae published
News Clockwork Revolution is the next RPG from Brian Fargo

How to watch the Xbox Developer Direct – including the first look at Fable and Forza Horizon 6 gameplay
By Scott McCrae published
News Pokemon developer Game Freak will also be showing off its new action RPG

Palworld lead shoots his shot, tells Fortnite dev to "reach out" if Epic ever wants to collab
By Scott McCrae published
News Fortnite did just add sidekicks...

Fallout 3 "went hard on the gloomy despair of the post-apocalyptic world" to differentiate it from Oblivion
By Scott McCrae published
News "We grind every asset up to just make this place feel as ruined and as dark as possible."

Out of nowhere, Donkey Kong Country Returns HD gets updated with new content a year since launch
By Scott McCrae published
News Dixie Kong returns

Gears of War: E-Day is set in one city as it's both "a rich environment" and "the best gameplay playground"
By Scott McCrae published
News "We want them to feel the loss of what was here: the history, the people and the lives they were living"

Bethesda originally wanted Fallout 4 to be set in New York, but too many other games had the same idea
By Scott McCrae published
News But there's disagreement over who actually chose Boston
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