Latest articles by Rick Lane
This Half-Life mod remakes Valve's classic shooter to be both longer and wider, and it has radically altered my perception of the original
Unforeseen consequences Half-Life: Extended is a surprisingly effective reinterpretation of Black Mesa.
Black Mirror's interactive episode Bandersnatch is being removed from Netflix, as 'the technology has served its purpose'
News Bandersnatch gets snatched from the service after the weekend.
The best FPS of 2024 simply cannot stop adding new maps, introducing 37 new arenas, 4 new weapons, and a 'Horrible Smelly Head' in its latest update
News Straftat keeps on giving.
MechWarrior 5's beefy story expansion is out, and it has the most videogame title I've ever had the pleasure to read
News Ghost Bear: Flash Storm adds 12 missions, eight new mechs, and two new punctuation marks.
Timberborn's latest update adds ziplines and tubeways for rapid beaver deployment and stops your rodent residents from throwing down in sudden fits of breakdancing
News Update 7 also overhauls terrain and adds tunnels.
Finally, this Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 camping mod means I'll never have to scour Bohemia for a place to sleep again
News "Time to play poacher peasant Henry simulator 9000."
Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project'
News Project leader is "opening up the floor" for a replacement.
After a decade of development, Roboquest's developer is calling time on its roguelite shooter: 'There's no way we can continue to provide content for players with over 1,000 hours of gameplay'
News "It was never meant to be what is called today 'a game as a service'".
Celebrate Star Wars being good again with up to 85% off EA's Jedi and Battlefront games until May 15
News Star Wars: Squadrons is also going cheap.
Resident Evil 4 Remake is now the fastest game in the series to sell 10 million copies, and it's currently half price if you want to make it 10 million and 1
News Ganadosh.
Humble's latest bundle gets you every Doom game, a discount on Doom: The Dark Ages and some Wolfenstein as a treat for less than $30
News More Doom than you can shake a chainsaw at.
Oblivion's forgotten goblin wars system, which saw gobbos battling each other all over Cyrodiil, emerged from designing a single quest: 'I figured it wouldn't be a lot more work to make this systemic'
News "It certainly allowed for fun emergent gameplay."
Better hurry up and finish your Oblivion Remastered playthrough, because the massive mod that aims to rebuild all of Morrowind gets a whole lot bigger on May 1
News Outland-er.
The RoboCop: Rogue City expansion that looks like Dredd will bring more trouble to your PC in July
News Unfinished Business gets a release date.
This upcoming life sim features co-op survival, farming, factory automation, time-travel romance, ghost hunting and mechs, which is probably why it doubled its Kickstarter goal in its first 24 hours
News Autonomica aims to do it all.
The adventure game that kicked off the Syberia series just got a shiny Myst-like makeover
News Amerzone – The Explorer's Legacy is out now.
The end of The Long Dark is in sight after over a decade in development, culminating in a fifth and final story episode that is '3 to 4 times as big' as episode 4
News "The episode is the most ambitious we've built so far."
This subreddit dedicated to the worst computer setups on Earth makes me weirdly proud to be a PC gamer
Masters of disaster Celebrating the gloriously terrible PC gaming setups of r/shittybattlestations.
Gloomwood's research update transforms it from Thief with guns into Dishonored with mutations, letting you inject dissected monster juice into yourself to gain their powers
News Jekyll and hide.
Dwarf Fortress sells 1 million copies on Steam, so now Bay 12 Games can afford that 'little party' it planned
News But the work continues.
After a disappointing sequel and a cancelled remake, the original Fear Effect is coming to PC 'for the first time ever'
News The cel-shaded action game's rerelease comes courtesy of Limited Run.
The Elder Scrolls Online celebrates its 10th anniversary a year late by selling off 2,000 pieces of its servers
News Own a shard of Tamriel.
Rebellion's CEO says 'it looks like we want to do more Atomfall' but it will depend on whether the studio can 'find the resources to do it'
News "It's nice when marketing comes back to you and says 'yep, we underestimated our high-level success.'"
