Latest articles by Rick Lane
Civilization 7's latest update brings improved map generation, a better UI, and a 'full rework of Napoleon', but it hasn't moved the needle on its divided Steam rating
News French Correction.
Bully 2 never happened due to 'bandwidth issues' according to Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser: 'You just can't do all the projects you want'
News Bully? Pulp it.
Stario: Haven Tower is yet another vertical city-builder, but this one has magic, space whales and flying delivery turtles
News Out now in early access.
'Overwhelmingly positive' rover-building sim Mars First Logistics rolls out of early access with a new automation system and a 40% discount
News Assemble robots and build transport networks in this delightful blend of construction and puzzling.
Senior Treyarch developer says he'd be 'dead lying' if he claimed not to be worried about series fatigue with Call of Duty: Black Ops 7
News "We'll see what the franchise does in the future."
Whatever happened to They Hunger: Lost Souls, the sequel to one of Half-Life's best mods?
Famished Unravelling the strange death of the once highly-anticipated mod.
This browser game transforms the reviled reCAPTCHA into a delightfully silly puzzler
News Identify chihuahuas and solve word searches in Neal Agarwal's latest slice of Internet nonsense.
The Witcher's forgotten minigame gets a grisly revival where you bet your own digits trying to roll high-scoring poker hands against demonic billionaires
News It's sure to be a digit-al sensation.
4 years after launch, card-based brawler Fights in Tight Spaces gets an expansion that adds a canine companion and an 'all new assistant system'
News Bites in Tight Spaces.
Remedy's bold gambit to save FBC: Firebreak arrives on Monday, in the form of a massive update that aims to 'improve everything' about the underwhelming coop shooter
News Jobs are out. Crises are in.
Goofy open world sim Wobbly Life launches into space for its 1.0 update, adding rescue missions, asteroid mining, and the chance to be a space detective
News Blast off.
The Sims 4 gets a much-needed update to the increasingly buggy base game, as EA assures players that 'your concerns are heard' over issues like deformed pets and missing ghost children
News Further quality-of-life patch to come in October.
Mercenary RPG Wartales' latest DLC adds one of its most hotly-requested features, fief management
News Fief, the dark project.
Shadows of Doubt's hilarious new modifiers let you play as a wall-crawling rat detective and evade a killer snail
News Rat as sleuth? Oui.
The untold story of SiN Episodes involves freeway chases, electrical cannons, a nude Elexis, and a whole lotta penises: 'It took Walmart saying they would cancel their order in order to get that removed'
Confessional Much like a certain fellow Source FPS that we were promised, SiN Episodes never got to the finish line.
2 years later than planned, Arctic Awakening arrives to pull the walking simulator out of its Edith Finch-shaped grave
News Search for your missing friend in the frozen Alaskan wilderness while accompanied by your "court-mandated therapy bot".
This Doom mod based on ye olde Flash animation series Madness is, fittingly, way slicker than it has any right to be
News Lock 'n' Load with Somewhere in Hell.
This 'supernatural handyman simulator' is House Flipper for Abiotic Factor sickos, a first-person restoration sim about fixing up a gigantic research facility
News The Lift arrives in 2026.
Monastic brewing sim Ale Abbey hops out of early access with eight new beers to quaff and a 35% launch discount
News The 1.0 update also adds a brewing competition league table and a chillout zone for your brothers.
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.
