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

Borderlands 4 can't even win in its own ads, as WWE has cosplaying wrestlers take the L in their own championship match
By Scott McCrae published
News It was to harness a brutal side of themselves, as "Borderlands is an incredibly violent game," definitely not next-level product placement

Hideo Kojima will give a "glimpse into future projects" at his "Beyond The Strand" anniversary event for Kojima Productions' 10th birthday this month
By Scott McCrae published
News Announced on Metal Gear Solid 5's 10th birthday, no less

After Final Fantasy Tactics' source code was lost, the remaster's devs looked at fan-made websites' preservation efforts: "We know you guys do such a good job of keeping all of that up to date"
By Scott McCrae published
News The code was lost when "we wanted to do another language, we would keep just stacking on top and overwriting and overwriting."

Resident Evil Requiem's director was always curious to return to Raccoon City: "It was like rice I'd left forgotten in the rice cooker for a week... eventually curiosity makes you lift the lid"
By Scott McCrae published
News He also says the game is as much about Raccoon City as it is about Grace

After announcing Escape From Tarkov is finally leaving early access, the extraction shooter dev has confirmed a "page on Steam will be available soon"
By Scott McCrae published
News But fans want to know what will transfer over, if anything

Hideo Kojima used "an AI machine learning rig" to painstakingly download his celebrity friends to Death Stranding 2, but he wasn't happy with it: "I think I want to make it more realistic"
By Scott McCrae published
News "I think it’s okay"

To celebrate Final Fantasy 9's 25th anniversary, Nier producer remembers how he thought "they should have made the loading faster"
By Scott McCrae published
News Yosuke Saito was working on rival RPG Dragon Quest 7, which would release just over a month later

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle director says gameplay has been one of the most "challenging aspects" of development because even Wolfenstein was "very linear"
By Scott McCrae published
News "The DLC kind of still reflects that"

New Final Fantasy-style action RPG Lost Soul Aside is "unintentionally one of the funniest games of the year," players declare, which takes the sting of its Mixed Steam reviews away somewhat
By Scott McCrae published
News Lost soul aside, he's a pretty good guy

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater's $200 collector's edition comes with "awful imitation moss" and the jankiest looking Snake figure I've ever seen
By Scott McCrae published
News You're... not pretty good

Battlefield 6 devs "were pretty happy" with the beta's anti-cheat performance, even though it "really sucks" that "it does prevent some players from playing"
By Scott McCrae published
News "Anti-cheat is always a cat-and-mouse game"

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater already has a mod that "brings dad back home" as you can now play as Hideo Kojima
By Scott McCrae published
News Kojima said he won't be playing the remake, but you can play it as him

Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is set in "a much more immersive city than we were ever able to do before" thanks to the tech built for The Skywalker Saga
By Scott McCrae published
News "We have new opportunities because of new technology"

Schedule 1 update adds a shotgun and rival cartel to Steam's viral drug-dealing simulator following a player vote, and I'm sure that doesn't have any harrowing implications
By Scott McCrae published
News It beat out a police expansion and "shrooms"

As Xbox fans discover just how brutal Helldivers 2 can be, Arrowhead's CEO thanks "gigachad" veterans for being "being so nice to all the new divers"
By Scott McCrae published
News For Super Earth!

Metal Gear Solid Delta is so faithful that Konami seemingly kept all of the original's assets in the game's files
By Scott McCrae published
News Still in a dream

A giant exclamation point appears over Komani's head as it investigates Metal Gear Solid Delta causing some of the weirdest bugs and crashes of 2025, with not one, but two crocodile issues
By Scott McCrae published
News There's also a crash related to using the radio, which is way more common than the crocs

Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight's combat was inspired by the Arkham series: "We also wanted to bring our own Lego approach to that foundation"
By Scott McCrae published
News "When we think about embodying Batman as a video game character today, of course we're inspired"

Red Dead Redemption 2 modder discovers the strongest weapon in the Wild West: 4-year-old Jack Marston, who packs a surprising punch as a thrown weapon
By Scott McCrae published
News The "Tomajack"

RPG veteran behind Devil May Cry and Dragon's Dogma wants his next game to combine "the best of everything he’s worked on," but does not want it to be a Soulslike
By Scott McCrae published
News "I appreciate their contribution but I’m not going to create the same thing"

Atari has picked up five Ubisoft games to bring to modern platforms, including its attempt at Resident Evil's crown
By Scott McCrae published
News More importantly, Tetsuya Mizuguchi's spiritual successor to Rez is finally going to be free from its PS3 / 360 jail

The Switch 2's controversial game-key cards prove to be a preservation nightmare as Japan's national library refuses to use them
By Scott McCrae last updated
News It's almost as if they are bad alternative to physical games

Architect of Sony's disastrous 'live-service push' says failures are good actually, because now there's "more rigorous and more frequent testing"
By Scott McCrae published
News "I don't want teams to always play it safe, but I would like for us, when we fail, to fail early and cheaply"
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