
Scott McCrae
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

Nintendo indirectly confirms the Switch 2 will have a glass screen, and asks you "do not peel" the film on it
By Scott McCrae published
News You should also charge the battery at least once every six months, Nintendo warns

Nintendo denies Switch 2 report claiming that Japanese retailers are getting a bigger cut of each sale following a timely drop in stocks and shares
By Scott McCrae published
News The report claimed Nintendo was giving 3% extra to retailers

Death Stranding 2 may have "a man's hands and legs sliced off by a robotic samurai" but its ESRB rating just revealed the most shocking detail of all: "The word 'f**k' is heard in the game"
By Scott McCrae published
News It also reveals a really silly weapon, which is actually a bit of a gutting spoiler

"My first line was 'Snake Vs Monkey'", says Metal Gear Solid 3's David Hayter: "I could only ask, 'Why am I saying this?'"
By Scott McCrae published
Interview Feature | Metal Gear legends David Hayter and Peter Lurie tell us all about one of Playstation's most ambitious – and bizarre – crossovers

"One day we were crossing our fingers for rent money and the next we had millions of players": REPO devs get candid, say the game "literally made semiwork as a studio survive" and insist future updates won't take so long
By Scott McCrae published
News The sudden success of the game ""pulled our tiny team away from all the fun stuff"

Borderlands and Horizon voice actor Ashly Burch says Metal Gear made her realise voice acting could be a job: "I think it did open up to me what the possibilities of performance in games could be"
By Scott McCrae published
News Burch also says she would love to be a Kojima villain: "one of his really unhinged villains would be fun"

The Nintendo Switch 2 will have new system unlock noises, and I'm devastated to report the clown honk is gone
By Scott McCrae published
News That's the sound of millions of pre-orders being canceled!

Microsoft has reportedly pushed back the Xbox handheld as it prioritizes making Windows 11 better for gaming on the go
By Scott McCrae published
News But the official Asus Xbox handheld should still be arriving this year apparently

The first one-hit kill card was just added to Pokemon TCG Pocket in Extradimensional Crisis: it's a teddy bear that cuddles you to death, and it's terrible
By Scott McCrae published
News Bewear the coin

Capcom may finally bring one of its greatest co-op games back to PC, but it also just deleted everyone's saves for it
By Scott McCrae published
News Lost Planet 2 coming back is exciting, but not without its banger online co-op

FromSoftware warns of potential "significant frame rate drops" in early Elden Ring Nightreign patch, especially for PC gamers "using the latest graphics cards"
By Scott McCrae published
News DSfix 2 on the way!

Elden Ring Nightreign's latest trailer takes us right back to mid-2000s YouTube by becoming an Evanescence-scored AMV
By Scott McCrae published
News Wake me up

Former PlayStation boss says subscription services like Xbox Game Pass could become "dangerous" for devs, and that Sony delivers a "healthier" model with PS Plus
By Scott McCrae published
News "If the big companies dictate what games can be created, I don't think that will advance the industry"

Star Wars Battlefront 3 hopefuls pour one out as EA is reportedly “focusing on a small handful of franchises” after cancelling Black Panther: “EA fumbled one of the biggest IPs in existence”
By Scott McCrae published
News Cursed to never reach the number 3

Persona 4 Remake, Atlus' worst-kept secret, seemingly leaked in deleted post from Yosuke's voice actor, who says he won't return: "They don’t want me to come back"
By Scott McCrae last updated
News Did he just confirm a Persona 4 remake?

Exec on former GTA 5 lead's new open-world game MindsEye says negative reactions have come from a "financed" and "concerted effort to trash the game and the studio"
By Scott McCrae published
News "Doesn't take much to guess who"

Resident Evil 2 director Hideki Kamiya has no interest in returning to the series, but Dino Crisis on the other hand: "I'd love to give it a shot"
By Scott McCrae published
News Kamiya also confirmed "I've already got the idea in my head" for Viewtiful Joe 3

Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya reckons he's a better YouTuber than Smash Bros boss Masahiro Sakurai: "My YouTube channel is much more interesting than Sakurai's"
By Scott McCrae published
News Even if Kamiya "trusted him to do the best job" when it came to Bayonetta in Smash

New Mario Kart World footage seems to confirm a new way to race that was originally planned for Double Dash 22 years ago
By Scott McCrae published
News Mario Kart World could mark reverse tracks console debut after an appearance in the mobile spinoff

Monster Hunter Wilds' weakest weapon is probably my beloved hammer, but good news, bonk fans: Capcom is buffing it so hard that it can't fit it all in one patch
By Scott McCrae published
News Here bud, that's no a bonk machine

Fans want Star Wars Battlefront 3 so bad that they've pushed Battlefront 2 to an all-time Steam peak 8 years after launch and even mocked up a menu for a third game on their own
By Scott McCrae published
News The ball is in EA's court now.

Palworld dev says Pocketpair could "mass hire" to help update its survival game faster, but it won't: "That's how game companies fall into the usual traps and become slimy"
By Scott McCrae published
News "You risk changing the company culture"

PS5 designer Mark Cerny has platinumed poker roguelike Balatro, making him part of an elite group of 0.1% of players
By Scott McCrae published
News This dude beat the game on the hardest difficulty with all 150 Jokers, all while presumably working on the PS6

Dragon Quest 1&2 HD-2D Remake is coming to Switch 2 this October, but it looks like the JRPG is packed onto Nintendo's divisive game-key card
By Scott McCrae published
News The beloved JRPGs are also coming to PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and the original Nintendo Switch

Metaphor: ReFantazio combat lead has crushing news for JRPG theorycrafters: lots of people think "I found a way to win that even the developers didn't anticipate!"' but "most of those methods are actually ones that we knew about"
By Scott McCrae published
News "That said, on rare occasions, players really do discover methods we hadn't considered"
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