Scott Adams
Scott Adams is a video games editor at The Outerhaven whose coverage is driven by a long-standing obsession with story-heavy RPGs and anime-linked games. He writes news and reviews that stay close to how systems, narratives, and long-term support shape the player experience, especially in titles that keep evolving after launch. His work combines detailed mechanics analysis with a clear interest in the worlds and characters behind those systems.
Story-driven RPGs and anime franchises
Adams focuses heavily on role-playing games and series with strong narrative hooks, often tied to anime and other story media. His portfolio includes coverage of Granblue Fantasy Relink’s Endless Ragnarok content, where he breaks down how new quests and grind layers extend the game’s story and progression loop.
He also writes about properties such as.hack//Z.E.R.O., framing news around what is known about upcoming entries and how they fit into broader fictional universes. This emphasis reflects his stated preference for RPGs and stories across games, books, movies, anime, and TV, and it gives his coverage a consistent narrative lens even when he is reporting straight news.
News and updates on ongoing titles
Beyond launches, Adams tracks ongoing support for live and long-running games, treating patch cycles and “last update” milestones as editorial subjects in their own right. In his coverage of Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2’s final major update, he treats the timing, feature set, and end-of-support messaging as central to understanding the game’s lifecycle and what it means for its community. He applies that same attention to detail to other continuing titles, focusing on how new modes, balance changes, and added content alter the way invested players engage with the game.
This approach makes his news pieces useful for readers who already know the franchise and care about how each update changes the experience rather than only that an update exists.
Video game reviews and critical analysis
Reviews are a major part of Adams’s output, and he is described as someone who has been a strong lover of video games, mainly RPGs, for decades and who writes about and reviews the games he loves. In pieces such as his Granblue Fantasy Relink Endless Ragnarok review, he organizes criticism around quest design, grind demands, and replay value, tying mechanical observations back to whether the game’s structure supports enjoyable long-term play. His habit of overanalyzing things he enjoys is evident in the way he dissects systems and story beats rather than staying at surface-level impressions. Across reviews, he tends to balance enthusiasm for genre staples with clear notes on pacing, difficulty, and content volume, giving readers concrete reasons why a game’s structure does or does not work.
Podcast and wider gaming community work
Adams extends his gaming coverage beyond the page into podcasting, where he appears as a regular voice discussing the games he covers. He is noted as a contributor to a gaming podcast and as a regular on the Nintendo Entertainment Podcast, roles that revolve around talking through new releases, ongoing titles, and genre trends. That work reinforces the same focus seen in his writing: close engagement with RPGs and other narrative-rich games, and a willingness to unpack details at length for an audience already steeped in gaming culture.
The combination of editorial responsibilities at The Outerhaven and recurring podcast contributions positions him as a consistent commentator on contemporary video games rather than a general entertainment writer.
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