Latest articles by Rick Lane
The director of Tales of Kenzera: Zau learned his most important game development lesson while working with Ridley Scott: 'That's why we're able to make games faster'
Resurgent "You have to do the work in order to find that voice, or find that thing that makes you kind of stick out and stand out."
Xalavier Nelson Jr, director of Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator, will never uninstall Warframe and would love to see an Outriders 2: 'I think that game would have been really special'
Full nelson The founder of Strange Scaffold gives us the lowdown on his PC gaming habits.
Altera is a hardcore, realistic, unforgiving military survival sandbox, so of course it features penguin soldiers with reflex sights on their heads
News Finally, someone invented the Humboldt-action rifle.
XCOM meets Rashomon in Vaunted, a tactical RPG where your characters can rewrite history from their perspective
News The debut title from Lost Lake Games also lets you switch between turn-based combat and real-time action.
I'm unsure how much of a detective game Artificial Detective will be, but I enjoyed the bit in the trailer when your character attacks a robot with a massive drill
News Former Dead Space and Control developers are involved in the project.
If you're sick of waiting for Ubisoft to make a new Splinter Cell, this newly announced indie stealth game might fill the Sam Fisher-shaped hole in your life
News Lizard State is inspired by "classic PS2-era games".
Starship Troopers: Extermination's latest update adds a big stompy mech, ideal for squashing the shooter's newly polished bug holes
News Patch 1.10 also adds a new location and improved arachnid ambushes.
Baldur's Gate 3 YouTuber discovers 'time travel' glitch that also reveals 4 nude Gales hanging out in your camp for some reason
News Maybe the real Baldur's Gate 3 is the four naked Gales we met along the way.
Sintopia, the management sim that smashes together Dungeon Keeper and Black & White, will stand before Steam's pearly gates for judgment in April
News Team 17's Bullfrog-like strategy game releases next month.
Forgotten FPS sequel Heretic 2 gets a 'reverse-engineered sourceport' that fixes bugs, improves the framerate and adds 'lots of cosmetic improvements'
News "The game plays as you remember it."
Lawn Mowing Simulator 2 takes to Kickstarter with the lushest virtual grass I've ever seen
News Seriously, look at it.
Geoff 'Zag' Keene, design director of Abiotic Factor, has 1,160 hours in PUBG and de-stresses using a Blizzard classic: 'Instead of going to therapy, guys will literally boot up Warcraft 2'
Keene player The founder of Deep Field Games talks Arc Raiders, PUBG, and his love of jank in games.
Nearly 2 years after hitting 1.0, goblin pachinko roguelike Peglin adds a fourth act and a final boss: 'It's been a long time coming'
News "Here's Peglin 2.0".
With Steam reviews at 'Mixed', the developer of Half Sword addresses differences between the early access game and its hugely popular tech demo: 'The final version of the game will differ from what has been shown previously'
News The tech demo "was not intended to represent the final version of the game".
The Wheel of Time is getting an animated show and a PC/mobile game, which is different from the open-world action RPG already in development
News Wheels within wheels.
If you simply cannot wait for the new Heroes of Might and Magic, this sci-fi take on HoMM just launched from Steam early access
News Heroes of Science and Fiction is Might and Magic, but in space!
After one of Blood's best mods added a new episode in January, another brilliant spin on Monolith's shooter just got an even bigger overhaul
News Death Wish 2.0 available on ModDB or in Nightdive's recent remaster.
The Last Caretaker's latest update embraces its inner Dr Evil by adding sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads
News The Curiosity Wakes update also adds spiderbot companions and player customisation.
Blight: Survival offers a fresh slice of its medieval zombie-slaying, after its developer took a break to 'rebuild our core systems from the ground up'
News "We spent a lot of time digging into the original vision."
Abubakar Salim, Surgent Studios founder and Raised by Wolves star, gives us a guided tour of his PC: 'My desktop is so bad that even my wife refuses to look at my screen'
Salim pickings The creator of Tales of Kenzera: Zau discusses playing No Rest for the Wicked, Dave the Diver, and his lifelong love of Solitaire.
Beaver-themed city-builder Timberborn has gnawed its way out of early access, and surprise! It has Factorio-style automation now
News Beavering away.
Fantasy heist sim Project Shadowglass is even more inspired by Thief than I had realised, as a new trailer shows off water arrows, blackjack knockouts, and authentically sloppy swordfighting
News Heist to meet you.
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is getting an expansion that introduces the series' first ever new class, and it’s a dwarf driving a weaponised bulldozer that flattens terrain and enemies alike
News The Heavy Duty DLC is out next month.
I desperately want the Just Cause creator's new open-city game to be great, but I'm not convinced by its latest trailer
News Samson has a great premise, but the new footage leaves me with concerns.
Total Chaos is a relentlessly bleak and occasionally terrifying remake of one of Doom's greatest mods, though its brilliant legacy is also its biggest weakness
Partial success Trigger Happy Interactive's remake is a fun upgrade for fans of the original mod, but it doesn't quite live up to the standards of the survival horror greats.
