Latest articles by Rick Lane
Rust developer is fed up with survivors cowering in their homes, so it's reworking progression to 'get players back out of their bases'
News "We don't believe this has been overwhelmingly negative, but it has detracted from world PvP."
Manor Lords gets its first update since January, and its creator says he is 'rethinking what went wrong to ensure it won't happen again'
News "I focussed on expanding the team and tackled way too many issues at once".
The creator of Voxel Doom has spent the last three years making Voxel Duke Nukem 3D, and it's almost ready to rock
News Dan Peterson's latest FPS makeover features 'nearly a thousand voxels'.
Inside the astonishing development of 1999's The Wheel of Time FPS: 'The fact that we shipped anything at all is kind of a miracle'
The Path of Daggers "I never played my games after they were done, but this one I played forever because it was so fun."
After a decade in development, this massive Skyrim mod adds a whole new region, 50 new dungeons and 'the biggest main quest you've ever played in Skyrim'
News Lordbound is finally here.
Chill city-builder Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles just got a massive update that adds an 'OP AF' new airship, as the developer urges players to check out his game: 'Any review helps, even the critical ones'
News Also adds a subterfuge system and a whole lotta trees.
Fight like a Witcher in Elden Ring thanks to this ingenious moveset mod
News Witcher—Moveset Mod adds sword techniques and Aard signs from CD Projekt's masterful RPGs.
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".
