James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...
To celebrate 25 years of PS2, we talk to former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden about his memories of creating the first cinematic games, and to a former PlayStation Magazine editor about covering the ...
The Sony PlayStation 2 had a lot of things going for it when it launched in October of 2000. It would launch more than a year before Nintendo’s GameCube console, a head start that proved to extend the ...
Back in 1995, after a planned partnership with Nintendo didn't pan out, Sony released its PlayStation, and it didn't take long for the console to dominate the video game industry. As successful as the ...
Dalton Cooper is the Managing Editor of Game Rant. Dalton has been writing about video games professionally since 2011. Having written thousands of game reviews and articles over the course of his ...
In the aughts, every video game launch party had a coterie of celebs in attendance, from Paris Hilton to Fergie to Snoop Dogg Microsoft PlayStation Two guys I would absolutely expect to be at a PS2 ...
SSX was my favorite game at the PS2 launch. However as great as it was, it was too short, i had everything mastered and unlocked in it in about two weeks. Multiplayer was okay, i'd crush all my ...