Latest articles by Rick Lane
Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year
News Roberts Space Industries' sim keeps raking in the cash.
2025 saw game developers scrambling to avoid heavy hitters like Grand Theft Auto 6 and Hollow Knight: Silksong
News Will 2026 be the same?
Celebrate the holidays the way Saint Nick intended, by blasting through hordes of enemies in the best Christmas-themed FPS mods
Splatter Claus How does the Doom Slayer open his presents? He rips and tears until it is done.
Grand Theft Auto could have been a globetrotting series like Assassin's Creed, according to former Rockstar technical director: 'We had ideas about GTA games in Rio de Janeiro, Moscow and Istanbul' while 'Tokyo almost actually happened'
News "Another studio in Japan were going to do it, take our code and do GTA: Tokyo."
Fallout 4's lead designer reckons it is the 'most replayable' game in the series thanks to its interweaving quests, which I'm sure will go down swimmingly with New Vegas sickos
News "At one point, I gave a talk about that, and the slide for the talk is just a big bowl of spaghetti."
If you thought Bloodlines 2 lacked bite, remember that The Witcher 3's director left CD Projekt to make a vampire RPG, and it's out next year
News Let's hope it doesn't suck.
EVE Online players destroyed 1,142,260,784,813,930 ISK worth of ships in 2025, which according to my caveman-level maths amounts to over $6 million lost to the void
News Numbers go up (in smoke).
The now-settled KOTOR 2 lawsuit saw accusations of demonic possession and the plaintiffs' lawyer hitting back at Aspyr with Lil Wayne lyrics: 'Okay you're a goon, but what's a goon to a Goblin? Nothin. Nothin. You ain't scaring nothing.'
News Aspyr also had what it believed to be vital trade secrets redacted from documents.
Clair Obscur's famously small (but not that small) developer isn't interested in becoming less not-that-small: 'I think it's good to have limitations when you are creative'
News "We love making games more than we love managing, so we want to keep doing that."
Battlefield 6 fans suspect EA used generative AI in a cosmetics pack for the shooter: 'I would literally prefer to have no sticker than some low quality AI generated garbage'
News Image of a double-barrelled M4A1 leads to suspicions that EA is using gen AI.
An indie dev worried about being seen as a ripoff after discovering a game similar to the one they were making, but then the original dev responded: 'Don't be discouraged'
News "There's plenty of room to do Gunforged better than I did," says its creator.
Since everyone got mad about yellow paint again this year, here are 5 alternatives I propose to help players find their way around in 2026
Bright side Yellow Fever.
Over 30 years since release, this classic PC platformer built with the tech that led to Doom just got a remaster
News Play Bio Menace like it's 1993. Or at least, how your time-ravaged brain remembers it.
Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy shows off equal helpings of sleuthing and smashing in its new trailer, as its first playable alpha test goes live
News Ogryn and bear it.
This dystopian free-running sim set in a brutalist megacity is being codeveloped by one of the designers of last year's best FPS
News Vholume is Straftat meets Mirror's Edge.
Dishonored co-creator says it was 'a shock' when Microsoft closed Arkane Austin after Redfall's release: 'We were working on something really cool'
News "It was not a decision I agreed with."
Quake's third Brutalist Jam now has a whopping 75 maps, and its organiser is working on a hub to stitch them all together: 'this is going to be an insane challenge'
News The mapping project features new weapons to use and enemies to fight.
This Microsoft Excel Easter egg led to a wild conspiracy theory that Bill Gates was the Antichrist
Hell in a cell Revisiting the Hall of Tortured Souls.
Abiotic Factor's 1.2 update invites you to explore the 'Holiday Cryosphere', a festive interdimensional snowglobe where everything's on fire for some reason
News And there's something off about that snowman…
Co-op smash hit RV There Yet? gets an 'unplanned content update for an unplanned game' as the comedy vehicle sim surpasses 4.5 million copies sold
News The game's first major patch challenges you to navigate the plump hills and plunging crevasses of Mt. Yurbuttsk.
Painkiller's creator isn't a fan of its recent co-op reboot: 'I disagreed with every single thing they've done in it'
News Ouch.
Stalker 2 gets a new zoning permit in its 'Stories Untold' update, adding 8 missions and 7 locations as you explore what's giving Stalkers 'headaches, nosebleeds, and even hallucinations'
News The patch also stops 'massive mutant hordes' spawning at the Plant location in the Garbage.
Get up to 90% off historical murder in the Assassin's Creed franchise sale
News Assassin's Creed Shadows is half-price.
