Latest articles by Rick Lane
Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition gets a massive update introducing Steam Workshop support, 10 new maps, and a 10-mission cooperative campaign
News Winter is coming.
You've had Skate Story, now get ready for Skate Style, a 'next-gen skateboarding game' that lets you customise your character's animations
News Demo available now.
Terraria's biggest mod manager will require months before it's fully compatible with the 1.4.5 patch: 'Updating tModLoader to major Terraria releases is a huge undertaking'
News "We ask players to be patient."
Timberborn gets a 1.0 release date and new 'lore trailer' showing some very thirsty beavers
Mechanistry's city-builder leaves early access in March.
219 hours of XCOM 2 and 20 minutes of Fallout: Size Five Games' director Dan Marshall takes us through the games on his PC
Disk Cleanup The co-creator of the Swindle, Lair of the Clockwork God and Earth Must Die gives us the lowdown on his gaming tastes.
If you thought Untitled Goose Game had a horrible goose, wait until you play this powerfully unsettling idle clicker where humans give birth to waterfowl
Fowl play Playing Tingus Goose makes me feel dirty, and I kinda like it.
XCOM 2 is 10 years old, and 2K is celebrating with a free weekend and a 95% discount on Firaxis' masterful sequel
News Try one of the best games ever for nothing, then grab it for less than the price of a coffee.
Rust player says goodbye to his server neighbours by constructing a giant, illuminated middle finger: 'Making one of these is often how I like to end a successful wipe'
News "Making one of these is often how I like to end a successful wipe."
Get 7 incredible FPS games including Prey, Doom Eternal and Black Mesa for $20 in Humble's sci-fi shooter bundle
News Space, the final gun tier.
Prince of Persia's creator reacts to Ubisoft's cancellation of The Sands of Time remake: 'Having a project killed is a brutal experience'
News "It's an aspect of the game industry that the public doesn't often see, but developers are all too familiar with."
Get the complete editions of Civilization 4, 5 and 6 plus a bunch more games for $15 in Humble Bundle's The Sid Meier Collection
News That's enough Civilization to last the remainder of civilisation.
Thirty years after launch, this classic space combat sim just got updated to work on modern systems and released for free
News Grab Star Quest 1 in the 27th Century on Itch now.
Over a decade since launch, this cooperative dungeon crawler is getting a double-barrelled update that overhauls its magic system, dungeon generation, and much more
News And it's 50% off for the next two weeks.
Cities: Skylines 2's new developer breaks cover on its plans for the sequel's future, revealing a patch that will include changes players 'have been requesting for a long time'
News Better snow effects and a "streamlined" UI are coming to the sequel soon.
The best Elder Scrolls game that isn't an Elder Scrolls game is getting a big patch in February and free DLC in March
News And there's a small patch out right now.
In a beautifully ironic twist, a YouTuber attempting a pacifist run of Bully discovered a secret weapon hidden for almost 20 years: 'I can see why they tried to lock it inside a building'
News Norton's sledgehammer is finally yours to wield.
Old-school MMO Project: Gorgon launches into 1.0 with an update that adds 'by far the largest and most complex map we've ever made'
News Embark upon 200 new quests in the capital city of Statehelm.
'Brutally honest' city builder Microlandia gets brutally honest crime simulation: 'It's a spectrum of consequences that can become a death spiral every single day'
News "Cities are not clockwork, they are chaos machines with a mayor attached."
Lort devs reluctantly tweak the fantasy roguelike's difficulty after players complain the Risk of Rain 2 successor is too hard: 'You are meant to die and learn how to overcome the challenge'
News "But we also don't want it to be too aggravating to jump into quickly and have fun."
Early access multiplayer shooter Out of Action is, ironically, full of action, with cyborg ninjas blasting each other in a mix of Titanfall and Max Payne
News Come for the movement, stay for the "advanced multiplayer bullet time".
Dinner is served in Star Birds' latest early access update, adding bakeries and restaurants to the Dorfromantik devs' factory management sim: 'Ever fed an alien pizza?'
News Star Birds' three new levels are "longer and more complex" than those included at launch.
This horror game built from the bones of an abandoned FPS server and an accidental ARPG might be one of the strangest puzzlers I've ever played
Memory leak No Players Online is a truly esoteric adventure.
Inscryption-inspired card battler The Killing Stone gets a rad new trailer showing off voice talent from Critical Role and Baldur's Gate 3, and it's out next month
News Talk shop with demons and beat the Devil in a battle of wits in this spooky new title from the creators of The Blackout Club.
