Latest articles by Rick Lane
The UK government is considering banning children from speaking to strangers in games like Fortnite and Roblox
News The UK's online safety minister is concerned about 'stranger pairing' in games.
There's one game Don't Nod narrative designer Nina Freeman won't ever uninstall from her PC, because it's banned on Steam: 'It's tragic, because everyone should play this game'
Follow Freeman The chief writer of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage talks us through her Steam library.
Star Citizen's single-player component is in the 'closing stages' of development according to Chris Roberts, as rumours of another Squadron 42 delay circulate
News Cloud Imperium Games is getting "imminently closer to launch."
Factorio's next major update will also be its last, as its developer announces it has 'reached a good place to conclude active gameplay development'
News Wube Software will shift focus onto "long term support" after update 2.1.
This fan remake of 1999's Medal of Honor proved so popular that its creator added a level cut from the original game
News Version 1.1 of Medal of Honor: Retro Remake lets players infiltrate Colditz Castle.
The Stop Killing Games movement hits another major milestone as a game preservation bill passes California State Assembly vote
News The bill now moves on to the California State Senate.
The remarkable story of Unreal 2, the sequel rescued from development hell by dooming it to failure: 'There was just no way we could succeed'
Unreal expectations "It made it possible for us to ship something, but what we shipped was not what people wanted."
After more than two decades, the creator of Paint.NET finally owns the domain paint.net, and it's all thanks to a 'slam dunk case of trademark infringement'
News "I've been trying to get this domain for 22 years."
Bungie spills the beans on combat tuning for Marathon Season 2, and it's bad news for shotgun lovers and thermal snipers
News Bungie says it wants player weapon choices to "feel more intentional".
It seems Terraria's developer is as bad at making small updates as it is final ones, as it says its latest balance patch is much more than 'adjusting a few numbers'
News "Sometimes, addressing balance means rethinking some core aspects around how things function."
Pragmata's developers take all your comparisons to Xbox 360 shooters as a 'huge compliment', though I'm not convinced by their theory for why players are making the connection
News "That's basically an honour."
Crimson Desert's latest patch adds 20 new types of small animal and then hands Kliff a shotgun
News Tameable wyverns have also arrived.
Helldivers 2 begins the long march back into the community's good books with a technical patch that represents the 'opening salvo' in a battle for better performance
News Upscaling support, advanced visual optimisation, and more on the way.
You can now watch the first 13 minutes of 007: First Light, and the intro is giving serious Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes vibes
News IO makes the opening available after "a few users got hold of the disc early."
Star Citizen blasts through $1 billion in player funding, as its developer lists a new $5,000 spaceship for sale that is 'not yet ready to play'
News Hyper (funding) drive.
Comedian Alasdair Beckett-King was a die-hard adventure gamer until he discovered Morrowind: 'The first time I loaded it up, I walked straight into a little pond and was killed by a fish'
King's Quest The YouTube sketch maestro and creator of Unforeseen Incidents guides us through the games on his PC.
The design lead of Half-Life's biggest competitor says that its publisher was so 'pissed off' by the time the game launched that it didn't bother testing it properly: 'We got trashed in the press because of bugs'
News "It really hurt it when it came to reviews."
A game developer compared Godot and Unity by making the same game in both engines, and he's found a clear winner
News Godot is smaller, faster, and quicker to load than Unity, according to tests run by designer Thomas Grové.
Space Marine 2 gets a steep discount, a free trial and an update that adds a 'major revamp' of Siege Mode, as its multiplayer continues to outpace games like Marathon
News The overhaul makes horde sessions "quicker and more intense".
I can't wait to get murdered by flowers in this rad-looking survival horror game
News The Florist looks like Resident Evil meets Annihilation.
A Broken Sword movie is in the works, aiming to move the adventure game classics into 'the next medium it deserves'
News Creator Charles Cecil says the emphasis is on 'what Broken sword is' rather than 'what it can be made to look like'.
You can help save the whales by buying this reef-building game written by the scribe of the Tomb Raider reboot
News The developer of Life Below is launching a special supporter pack with all net revenue goes to supporting whale and dolphin conservation.
As it rapidly approaches $1 billion in player funding, Star Citizen goes free to play until May 27
News No taxation, just representation.
