Latest articles by Rick Lane
Six years after launch, The Division 2 is getting an 'updated take' on extraction shooting
News Will be developed with "clear communication and community involvement".
After cancelling 8 of the 12 live service games Sony promised to release by 2025, PlayStation studios boss says the number doesn't really matter: 'What is important to me is having a diverse set of player experiences'
News "I don't want teams to always play it safe, but I would like for us, when we fail, to fail early and cheaply."
Ubisoft CEO summoned to appear before French court in relation to harassment trial, as the publisher says it will 'continue to cooperate with the justice system in this matter'
News Ubisoft says that the court had already decided there are "no grounds to initiate criminal proceedings" against the company or its management.
Silent Hill f's director insists that its dodge and counterattack systems don't make it a soulslike: 'I think it's a label that's a little bit disingenuous'
News "We are an action horror game, but we are not a soulslike."
The Mass Effect vibes are overwhelming in the latest showcase for Owlcat's The Expanse game—and yes, it has a loyalty system
News And I am 100% on board.
One of the best detective games of the decade is free to keep on Epic this week
News Strange Horticulture is yours for nothing.
Two Point Museum's next free update will dive into the digital realm, letting you build a retro arcade among your exhibitions
News Visual artifact.
The new game from Painkiller and Bulletstorm's creators is a tropical survival shooter that looks a teensy bit like Far Cry, and it's out in early access next month
News Lost Rift washes ashore in September.
This deckbuilding card battler where you bargain with the devil looks like Inscryption mixed with Battle Chess
News The Killing Stone comes from the developers of The Blackout Club.
Survival climber Cairn is getting a free-solo mode, letting you channel your inner Alex Honnold when it launches in November
News No strings attached.
History goes cheap in the Age of Empires franchise sale, with up to 75% off the classic RTS series
News Age of Mythology: Retold is half-price too.
Pre-Fortress 2, a mod that bridges the gap between Team Fortress Classic and TF2, is coming to Steam with a whole lotta grenades
News The mod adds class-specific throwables and reinstates numerous weapons for OG TF.
Homeworld 3 developer acquires the rights to its superior previous game about salvaging spaceships, with 'multiple' new projects in the works
News Focus Entertainment was previously co-owner.
1930s media mogul sim News Tower leaves early access in November, letting you build your journalism empire on the shoulders of the Mafia
News Embrace your inner J. Jonah Jameson in this newspaper tycoon game.
SnowRunner dev's latest vehicle sim lets you channel your inner Frank Sobotka by managing a struggling port
News Docked will soon be sailing to a harbour near you.
Starship Troopers: Extermination implements a 'total overhaul' to its spawning system, adding a Left 4 Dead style AI director: 'We realized that our original spawning system, while functional, was starting to show its limit'
News "The Director is a system that constantly evaluates the battlefield's state."
Sea of Thieves' latest update slips The Smugglers' League in through the back door, offering high-risk, high-reward voyages for the most daring pirates
News Season 17 kicks off in deliberately understated fashion.
Get $170 worth of RPG books for $15 with the Witcher's TTRPG bundle
News The package nets you the core rulebook, several expansions and an easy mode.
The sequel to Half-Life modding classic Pirates, Vikings & Knights quietly hit 1.0 after nearly 18 years of development: 'It's been over 6,500 days since PVK2 was unleashed'
News 1.0 release adds a new class and a ship's hold's worth of balance changes.
As the legal debate between Subnautica 2's publisher and former studio execs rages, the original game and its spinoff quietly receive small patches and big discounts
News 1.0 release adds a new class and a ship's hold's worth of balance changes.
Doom: The Dark Ages latest update adds a 'Ripatorium' that lets you build your own wave shooter from its demonic menagerie
News Id's FPS prequel also gets a massive combat update.
'The prejudice against turn-based RPGs isn’t completely gone': despite Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's massive success, its director reckons real-time action games still have an easier time
News But this isn't why Clair Obscur has a parry system, honest.
Valve's superfans are back to break the player concurrent record for Portal, but the challenge may be steeper than anyone has realised
News #RememberPortal hopes to give Valve's puzzler a big player boost.
