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

Sony enforcers execute a legal visceral attack on the BloodbornePSX demake, continuing its mission to eradicate all traces of FromSoft's beloved RPG on PC
By Rick Lane published
News Prey slaughtered.

The best unofficial Alien game is getting a spiritual successor where you carve up derelict ships and manage drones with 'personality quirks'
By Rick Lane published
News Humanity 2.0 is a follow-up to Duskers.

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2's latest update leads with a fancy datavault for your battle-barge, but I'm far more interested in the new tyranid unit with a cannon on its back
By Rick Lane published
News Biovore for your money.

Resident Evil Re:Verse is reversing right off Steam, as Capcom claims it has served its 'original, celebratory purpose' despite mostly negative reviews
By Rick Lane published
News Zombie server.

Superb Bloodborne-inspired racing game Nightmare Kart is getting free DLC featuring sniper rifles and supercharged penny farthings
By Rick Lane published
News Coming "when it's ready".

Civilization 7 is off to a rocky start as it receives 'Mixed' Steam reviews from its premium backers: 'Comparing this unfinished mess to the Civ 6 release is night and day'
By Rick Lane published
News Age ratings.

After The Sims 1 + 2 rereleases stumbled out to mixed reviews, EA issues a patch that boldly declares they 'should now launch in most situations'
By Rick Lane published
News Woohoo?

Doctor Strange's portals were 'particularly challenging' to add into Marvel Rivals, as they created 'unprecedented performance demand' for Unreal Engine 5
By Rick Lane published
News Thinking with portals.

The next game from Cruelty Squad's creator, a 'policing and punishment simulator', has dropped a new trailer showing off its gruesome mech combat
By Rick Lane published
News Psycho Patrol R is going to mech you pay.

Helldivers 2's latest warbond adds a stratagem I've craved since the galactic war started, a portable hellbomb
By Rick Lane published
News Servants of Freedom detonates on February 6.

Make Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 feel even more like The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion with this charming potato mode mod
By Rick Lane published
News Class of 2006.

UK government says it won't change the rules on publishers taking videogames offline after selling them: 'We have no plans to amend existing consumer law on digital obsolescence'
By Rick Lane published
News It will "monitor the issue", however.

Ugh! Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has a body-odour 'broadcasting' system where your stink can alert nearby NPCs
By Rick Lane published
News Reeky bastards should think twice about stealth attacks.

Need for Speed is effectively on hold while Criterion musters entirely around Battlefield, but EA assures players the racer will return in 'new and interesting ways'
By Rick Lane published
News Emergency stop.

Killing Floor 3 splatters onto PC on March 25, but you can get your hands dirty a month early via its closed beta
By Rick Lane published
News Testing begins on February 20.

Exographer is a physics-based platformer with a difference—it's made by an actual particle physicist
By Rick Lane published
Quark of fate Discover the fate of an alien civilisation by using tools and methods couched in actual scientific processes.

Besiege celebrates a decade of building deadly contraptions with a reworked sandbox mode, adjusted level designs and slow-motion explosions
By Rick Lane published
News More updates are coming "throughout this year".

Palworld developer 'blown away' by the response to its new publishing arm, which has received 150 game pitches just one week after opening
By Rick Lane published
News "We're determined to help as many great games get made as possible."

Civilization 7's post-launch roadmap will bring the Bermuda Triangle and Mount Everest to all players in March
By Rick Lane published
News While paid DLC adds Ada Lovelace and Simon Bolivar.

I didn't think Factorio needed swarms of robot ants, but the trailer for this upcoming factory sim has convinced me it missed a trick
By Rick Lane published
News Build and program a synthetic ant colony in Microtopia.

Snowrunner follow-up RoadCraft shows off its roadbuilding and logistics automation in a new trailer, and I'm already in love with its mobile quarry
By Rick Lane published
News The cleanup begins on May 20.

Split Fiction's latest trailer shows off its side-stories, which let you fly through space and ride giant desert fish in worlds 'completely different' from the main adventure
By Rick Lane published
News Off the page.

Nightdive's remaster of Doom + Doom 2 gets multiplayer mod support, spectator mode for co-op play, and stops you from losing your mind searching for red doors
By Rick Lane published
News Play with your mates as we wait for Doom: The Dark Ages.
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