Latest articles by Rick Lane
Since everyone got mad about yellow paint again this year, here are 5 alternatives I propose to help players find their way around in 2026
Bright side Yellow Fever.
Over 30 years since release, this classic PC platformer built with the tech that led to Doom just got a remaster
News Play Bio Menace like it's 1993. Or at least, how your time-ravaged brain remembers it.
Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy shows off equal helpings of sleuthing and smashing in its new trailer, as its first playable alpha test goes live
News Ogryn and bear it.
This dystopian free-running sim set in a brutalist megacity is being codeveloped by one of the designers of last year's best FPS
News Vholume is Straftat meets Mirror's Edge.
Dishonored co-creator says it was 'a shock' when Microsoft closed Arkane Austin after Redfall's release: 'We were working on something really cool'
News "It was not a decision I agreed with."
Quake's third Brutalist Jam now has a whopping 75 maps, and its organiser is working on a hub to stitch them all together: 'this is going to be an insane challenge'
News The mapping project features new weapons to use and enemies to fight.
This Microsoft Excel Easter egg led to a wild conspiracy theory that Bill Gates was the Antichrist
Hell in a cell Revisiting the Hall of Tortured Souls.
Abiotic Factor's 1.2 update invites you to explore the 'Holiday Cryosphere', a festive interdimensional snowglobe where everything's on fire for some reason
News And there's something off about that snowman…
Co-op smash hit RV There Yet? gets an 'unplanned content update for an unplanned game' as the comedy vehicle sim surpasses 4.5 million copies sold
News The game's first major patch challenges you to navigate the plump hills and plunging crevasses of Mt. Yurbuttsk.
Painkiller's creator isn't a fan of its recent co-op reboot: 'I disagreed with every single thing they've done in it'
News Ouch.
Stalker 2 gets a new zoning permit in its 'Stories Untold' update, adding 8 missions and 7 locations as you explore what's giving Stalkers 'headaches, nosebleeds, and even hallucinations'
News The patch also stops 'massive mutant hordes' spawning at the Plant location in the Garbage.
Get up to 90% off historical murder in the Assassin's Creed franchise sale
News Assassin's Creed Shadows is half-price.
Microsoft nukes popular Halo 3 mod for Counter-Strike 2 from orbit: 'It was fun while it lasted'
News "Make sure you give your thanks to Microsoft!"
Phoenix Point's Terror from the Void mod is so good Snapshot Games just released a massive patch to make the original game more like the fanmade overhaul
News New update is fully compatible with Phoenix Rising's rework.
10 years in the making, this total conversion based on Half-Life is every bit as ambitious as Black Mesa
Blue Shift Diffusion is a fantastically fun shooter, albeit with one big caveat.
Race a Kei truck through a collapsing Japan in DriveCrazy, which is like Burnout if you could drive on walls and fight towering kaiju
News Action-packed racer blasts out of early access.
Gate Guard Simulator is Papers, Please with fewer terrorists, more geese, and the chance to throw people into a moat
News Coming next year.
Sins of a Solar Empire 2 gets a massive diplomacy overhaul that makes wars 'economically ruinous'
News Planetary economies are now population based, so murderous conquests are going to hurt your wallet.
I'm never getting any work done ever again, thanks to this website that lets me play thousands of user-made Doom levels in my browser
News RIP (and tear) my productivity.
Wreckreation developer puts its entire staff on notice as publisher THQ Nordic abandons it: 'We simply cannot sustain the studio in its current form'
News "We have so many things in the pipeline," says Three Field's CEO as she hopes for a potential rescue.
Descenders Next gets a big multiplayer update as its developer apologises for taking so long with it: 'We're slowly working on getting the feel and flow of Descenders back into Descenders Next'
News "We're sorry for taking so long with updates."
World War 1 survival horror Conscript gets a 'huge' update that adds a hardcore mode, redesigned levels, new items and gear, and much more
News "I'd consider this to be the version of the game I’d have released if I had a bit more time to playtest the game thoroughly."
Viking RTS Northgard is now Northgard: Definitive Edition, thanks to an update that folds in its major DLC and adds a bunch of new stuff free to existing players
News It's also 60% off until December 18.
