Latest articles by Rick Lane
The Outer Worlds 2: All the key details on Obsidian’s sci-fi sequel
Moon shots Knowledge, such a fickle concept.
This Quake 2 mod bridges the gap between the original game and its sequel, with hybrid enemies including dog-headed parasites and rocket-blasting shamblers
News Call of the Void is out now.
Inevitably, someone has made a cooperative take on A Game About Digging a Hole, where you play as burly shirtless men whose hands swell up when they flip each other off
News Keep Digging lets you burrow with your buddies.
Get Arma 3 for less than the price of a coffee in Bohemia's Interactive's publisher sale
News DayZ also half price.
X4: Foundations' massive diplomacy update adds an actual embassy room to your HQ, where you can entreat with aliens from across the galaxy and establish yourself as space Machiavelli
News Also lets you recruit and deploy spies to mess with other factions.
The only good Postal game is a spinoff expressionist boomer shooter that takes place entirely in the protagonist's depraved mind
Male (dis)order. Postal: Brain Damaged succeeds by using the series' scattershot satire as a basis to build great levels.
This physics platformer about a wiggly worm that travels into space has even got Tim Schafer excited: 'It looks super cute and fun'
News Wirm squirms onto Steam soon.
If you were hoping to see Sly Cooper on PC for some reason, think again: Ghost of Yōtei dev says 'it's been a long time' since the series' heyday and nobody at Sucker Punch wants to make those games anymore
News Bye, Cooper.
One of the best wargames on PC is currently 85% off
News Get Unity of Command 2 for less than a cup of coffee.
This surprisingly great Arthurian Elder Scrolls clone just got a huge update that adds new game plus, extra dungeons, and tons more loot
News Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon patch 1.1 is available now.
Nightdive Studios says System Shock 2's multiplayer was 'so hard to get working' for modern platforms, but you should still 'probably play it in singleplayer first to get the true experience'
News
Star Trucker celebrates a year of space haulage with an anniversary update and a half-price discount
News The trucking sim's celebratory patch brings extensive peripheral support and, er, speed cameras.
RoadCraft introduces a free hard mode for all you SnowRunner sickos, adding limited fuel, more challenging convoy simulation and realistic gearboxes
News New difficulty options coincide with the launch of RoadCraft's first DLC.
Bigger guns are louder and therefore riskier as of Rust's latest update, with other players able to hear you from 'much further away'
News Facepunch's survival sim can now "run gunshots at different distances to the network range".
This Australian puzzler that took seven years to make is basically Myst with endearingly naff FMVs and music composed by a 10-year-old
News Neyyah is available now.
Stellaris' Shadows of the Shroud DLC will make communing with cosmic entities more rewarding later this month
News Prepare for a psionic overhaul on September 22.
Command & Conquer successor Tempest Rising gets a big new update next week, adding massive 3v3 multiplayer matches and active pause to singleplayer
News Lands September 9.
This brilliant boomer shooter inspired by Blood gets a whole new campaign and a free update later this month
News Cultic: Chapter Two launches on September 18.
Vampire Survivors' free-roaming online mode is available to play in beta now, and there's an official board game coming too
News I shudder to think of the number of pieces involved.
After nearly three years, Terraria's 1.4.5 update is totally, definitely, indisputably almost finished: 'We are in the endgame now'
News "This is truly the final push."
FBC: Firebreak's latest patch lets you turn off enemy health bars, which should be mandatory for all first-person shooters
News Health hazard.
Atomfall's second story DLC will see you hunted by an absolutely furious robot among some War of the Worlds-style red weed
News The Red Strain sprouts on September 16.
No More Room in Hell 2 delays its 1.0 launch into 2026, confirms that 'child zombies will not be present in the final product' just in case you were wondering
News "We still have a mountain of work that we want to fit into the game".
