Latest articles by Rick Lane
Two Point Museum's next free update will dive into the digital realm, letting you build a retro arcade among your exhibitions
News Visual artifact.
The new game from Painkiller and Bulletstorm's creators is a tropical survival shooter that looks a teensy bit like Far Cry, and it's out in early access next month
News Lost Rift washes ashore in September.
This deckbuilding card battler where you bargain with the devil looks like Inscryption mixed with Battle Chess
News The Killing Stone comes from the developers of The Blackout Club.
Survival climber Cairn is getting a free-solo mode, letting you channel your inner Alex Honnold when it launches in November
News No strings attached.
History goes cheap in the Age of Empires franchise sale, with up to 75% off the classic RTS series
News Age of Mythology: Retold is half-price too.
Pre-Fortress 2, a mod that bridges the gap between Team Fortress Classic and TF2, is coming to Steam with a whole lotta grenades
News The mod adds class-specific throwables and reinstates numerous weapons for OG TF.
Homeworld 3 developer acquires the rights to its superior previous game about salvaging spaceships, with 'multiple' new projects in the works
News Focus Entertainment was previously co-owner.
1930s media mogul sim News Tower leaves early access in November, letting you build your journalism empire on the shoulders of the Mafia
News Embrace your inner J. Jonah Jameson in this newspaper tycoon game.
SnowRunner dev's latest vehicle sim lets you channel your inner Frank Sobotka by managing a struggling port
News Docked will soon be sailing to a harbour near you.
Starship Troopers: Extermination implements a 'total overhaul' to its spawning system, adding a Left 4 Dead style AI director: 'We realized that our original spawning system, while functional, was starting to show its limit'
News "The Director is a system that constantly evaluates the battlefield's state."
Sea of Thieves' latest update slips The Smugglers' League in through the back door, offering high-risk, high-reward voyages for the most daring pirates
News Season 17 kicks off in deliberately understated fashion.
Get $170 worth of RPG books for $15 with the Witcher's TTRPG bundle
News The package nets you the core rulebook, several expansions and an easy mode.
The sequel to Half-Life modding classic Pirates, Vikings & Knights quietly hit 1.0 after nearly 18 years of development: 'It's been over 6,500 days since PVK2 was unleashed'
News 1.0 release adds a new class and a ship's hold's worth of balance changes.
As the legal debate between Subnautica 2's publisher and former studio execs rages, the original game and its spinoff quietly receive small patches and big discounts
News 1.0 release adds a new class and a ship's hold's worth of balance changes.
Doom: The Dark Ages latest update adds a 'Ripatorium' that lets you build your own wave shooter from its demonic menagerie
News Id's FPS prequel also gets a massive combat update.
'The prejudice against turn-based RPGs isn’t completely gone': despite Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's massive success, its director reckons real-time action games still have an easier time
News But this isn't why Clair Obscur has a parry system, honest.
Valve's superfans are back to break the player concurrent record for Portal, but the challenge may be steeper than anyone has realised
News #RememberPortal hopes to give Valve's puzzler a big player boost.
'You'll now be at the mercy of what loot you can find': Rust's latest update brings back hardcore mode tougher than ever, removing the ability to craft guns entirely
News The hardcore update also brings a menu revamp and fancier clouds.
Absurd Japan-themed delivery sim Promise Mascot Agency just added a whole bunch of grinding, but don't worry, it's the good, Tony Hawk kind of grinding
News The Prepare to Grind update also adds time trial challenges and difficulty modes.
I finally played Duke Nukem Forever's unfinished 2001 build, and while it probably would have been better than Gearbox's fiasco, it still wouldn't hold up today
Kick ass and chew burrito The vending machines are excellent though.
The follow-up to one of the decade's best detective games will have you selling cursed antiques to Victorian weirdos next month
News Strange Antiquities launches in September.
The iconic look of BioShock's Big Daddy has its roots in System Shock 2's low polygon counts: 'If you embraced your designing limitations on that stuff, you'd end up with a better model'
News "BioShock was really the last time we talked about polygon counts."
Portal sicko beats the game with 'switched' wall textures so no surface is where it's meant to be, creating a whole new puzzling challenge in the process
News 'This is the entirety of Portal with a twist'.
