Rick Lane
Rick has been fascinated by PC gaming since he was seven years old, when he used to sneak into his dad's home office for covert sessions of Doom. He grew up on a diet of similarly unsuitable games, with favourites including Quake, Thief, Half-Life and Deus Ex. Between 2013 and 2022, Rick was games editor of Custom PC magazine and associated website bit-tech.net. But he's always kept one foot in freelance games journalism, writing for publications like Edge, Eurogamer, the Guardian and, naturally, PC Gamer. While he'll play anything that can be controlled with a keyboard and mouse, he has a particular passion for first-person shooters and immersive sims.
Latest articles by Rick Lane

I'm unsure how much of a detective game Artificial Detective will be, but I enjoyed the bit in the trailer when your character attacks a robot with a massive drill
By Rick Lane published
News Former Dead Space and Control developers are involved in the project.

If you're sick of waiting for Ubisoft to make a new Splinter Cell, this newly announced indie stealth game might fill the Sam Fisher-shaped hole in your life
By Rick Lane published
News Lizard State is inspired by "classic PS2-era games".

Starship Troopers: Extermination's latest update adds a big stompy mech, ideal for squashing the shooter's newly polished bug holes
By Rick Lane published
News Patch 1.10 also adds a new location and improved arachnid ambushes.

Baldur's Gate 3 YouTuber discovers 'time travel' glitch that also reveals 4 nude Gales hanging out in your camp for some reason
By Rick Lane published
News Maybe the real Baldur's Gate 3 is the four naked Gales we met along the way.

Sintopia, the management sim that smashes together Dungeon Keeper and Black & White, will stand before Steam's pearly gates for judgment in April
By Rick Lane published
News Team 17's Bullfrog-like strategy game releases next month.

Forgotten FPS sequel Heretic 2 gets a 'reverse-engineered sourceport' that fixes bugs, improves the framerate and adds 'lots of cosmetic improvements'
By Rick Lane published
News "The game plays as you remember it."

Lawn Mowing Simulator 2 takes to Kickstarter with the lushest virtual grass I've ever seen
By Rick Lane published
News Seriously, look at it.

Geoff 'Zag' Keene, design director of Abiotic Factor, has 1,160 hours in PUBG and de-stresses using a Blizzard classic: 'Instead of going to therapy, guys will literally boot up Warcraft 2'
By Rick Lane published
Keene player The founder of Deep Field Games talks Arc Raiders, PUBG, and his love of jank in games.

Nearly 2 years after hitting 1.0, goblin pachinko roguelike Peglin adds a fourth act and a final boss: 'It's been a long time coming'
By Rick Lane published
News "Here's Peglin 2.0".

With Steam reviews at 'Mixed', the developer of Half Sword addresses differences between the early access game and its hugely popular tech demo: 'The final version of the game will differ from what has been shown previously'
By Rick Lane published
News The tech demo "was not intended to represent the final version of the game".

The Wheel of Time is getting an animated show and a PC/mobile game, which is different from the open-world action RPG already in development
By Rick Lane published
News Wheels within wheels.

If you simply cannot wait for the new Heroes of Might and Magic, this sci-fi take on HoMM just launched from Steam early access
By Rick Lane published
News Heroes of Science and Fiction is Might and Magic, but in space!

After one of Blood's best mods added a new episode in January, another brilliant spin on Monolith's shooter just got an even bigger overhaul
By Rick Lane published
News Death Wish 2.0 available on ModDB or in Nightdive's recent remaster.

The Last Caretaker's latest update embraces its inner Dr Evil by adding sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads
By Rick Lane published
News The Curiosity Wakes update also adds spiderbot companions and player customisation.

Blight: Survival offers a fresh slice of its medieval zombie-slaying, after its developer took a break to 'rebuild our core systems from the ground up'
By Rick Lane published
News "We spent a lot of time digging into the original vision."

Abubakar Salim, Surgent Studios founder and Raised by Wolves star, gives us a guided tour of his PC: 'My desktop is so bad that even my wife refuses to look at my screen'
By Rick Lane published
Salim pickings The creator of Tales of Kenzera: Zau discusses playing No Rest for the Wicked, Dave the Diver, and his lifelong love of Solitaire.

Beaver-themed city-builder Timberborn has gnawed its way out of early access, and surprise! It has Factorio-style automation now
By Rick Lane published
News Beavering away.

Fantasy heist sim Project Shadowglass is even more inspired by Thief than I had realised, as a new trailer shows off water arrows, blackjack knockouts, and authentically sloppy swordfighting
By Rick Lane published
News Heist to meet you.

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is getting an expansion that introduces the series' first ever new class, and it’s a dwarf driving a weaponised bulldozer that flattens terrain and enemies alike
By Rick Lane published
News The Heavy Duty DLC is out next month.

I desperately want the Just Cause creator's new open-city game to be great, but I'm not convinced by its latest trailer
By Rick Lane published
News Samson has a great premise, but the new footage leaves me with concerns.

Total Chaos is a relentlessly bleak and occasionally terrifying remake of one of Doom's greatest mods, though its brilliant legacy is also its biggest weakness
By Rick Lane published
Partial success Trigger Happy Interactive's remake is a fun upgrade for fans of the original mod, but it doesn't quite live up to the standards of the survival horror greats.

Get up to 85% off the Dead Space games in EA's franchise sale, including Motive's excellent remake that will probably never see a successor
By Rick Lane published
News Dead cheap.

The creator of Stephen's Sausage Roll has released a new puzzle-platformer where you play as an egg, in the latest example of a developer fallen to the sunny side
By Rick Lane published
News But should you give Oeuf a fry, or ovoid it entirely?
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