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

Sally Beaumont, voice actor in Old Skies and The Séance of Blake Manor, extols the virtues of narrative singleplayer games 'You can have lots of them in your PC toolbelt'
By Rick Lane published
Sally forth The voice of Old Skies' Fia Quinn guides us through the games on her PC.

Nightdive says compatibility with fan missions was a big priority for Thief Remastered, and there's one massive mod in particular it knew it had to get working
By Rick Lane published
News "Obviously the big one in the room is The Black Parade".

Creative Assembly wants to know which factions you wish to play as in Total War: Medieval 3, but whatever you do, don't ask to play as the Pope
By Rick Lane published
News Some factions are already "locked in".

Spyro speedrunner says a PC port of the original game is in the works, and it's being made with 'no AI'
By Rick Lane published
News The port runs at 60 FPS, supports true widescreen and has "no polygon wobble".

Skyrim's lead designer reckons releasing Elder Scrolls and Fallout games faster risks 'disappointing fans'
By Rick Lane published
News "The biggest risks of shortened schedules is quality, reduced features, polish, or bugs."

I tried to create the perfect zombie apocalypse in this intensely detailed outbreak simulator, and sorry slow zombie fans, fast zombies are just better
By Rick Lane published
Infectious "It's the game I wanted to play but couldn't because it didn't exist, so I made it."

Not content with a Nightdive remaster, Thief's also getting a graphic novel and an original soundtrack featuring Garrett's voice actor
By Rick Lane published
News Thief: Pulse of Promise is set between the first two games.

Helldivers 2's next warbond is delayed, as Arrowhead says it 'needs more time to cook' following the shooter's massive progression rework
By Rick Lane published
News "We will provide more information as it nears completion."

The next game from the director of Blood West is a frozen survival shooter where you scratch a living off the decaying corpse of a god
By Rick Lane published
News Bloodwoven gives eldritch horror an arctic spin.

The game formerly known as Operation Flashpoint is getting a remaster, while developer Bohemia Interactive has released its engine source code
By Rick Lane published
News Arma: Cold War Assault gets the GitHub treatment.

RPG studio Obsidian faces class action lawsuit alleging violations of state wage laws
By Rick Lane published
News The studio behind Fallout: New Vegas and Avowed denies "each and every allegation."

Bryce Clark, game director of Poppy Playtime, has played 23,000 hours of Steam games: 'I'm a bit obsessed with learning the market'
By Rick Lane published
The Bryce is Right "I'm always playing somewhere between three and six games at a time."

You will never guess who turns up in this video about why you can't build British towns in SimCity 4
By Rick Lane published
News Now that's some prime YouTube fodder.

CD Projekt Red boss believes some fans were forever burned by Cyberpunk 2077's disastrous launch: 'I'm convinced that we lost the faith of some people indefinitely'
By Rick Lane published
News "I'm not 100 per cent convinced we went through the full redemption arc."

Marathon players are amassing way too much loot in Season 2, and the primary cause is a mystery: 'We're still unravelling the source'
By Rick Lane published
News "Progression and access to power moved much faster than the previous season."

Guild Wars 3 isn't the only new Guild Wars on the way: ArenaNet just announced a Guild Wars card game
By Rick Lane published
News Mistbound aims to give fans "a new way to play together."

Crysis 2 had problems, but it got one thing right: destruction
By Rick Lane published
News Fancy a second helping of Crysis 2's big apple crumble?

Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft, dies in plane crash
By Rick Lane published
News The chairman and CEO of Guillemot Corporation was 69.

The creator of Ultima is reportedly reclaiming the series' rights back from EA, and it could happen as soon as next year
By Rick Lane published
News "Every decade or so, I tried to work with EA on a revival of Ultima."

Microsoft researcher builds goat-powered neural network in Age of Empires 2 to show why we should 'stop assuming that LLMs behave like humans just because they were trained with natural language'
By Rick Lane published
"I have this tendency to dial up things to 11 when I really think I need to make a point."

'I try to play as a completionist and leave no stone unturned and no enemy unkilled': Returnal director Harry Krueger talks Deus Ex, Resident Evil, and the arcade classic that inspired Housemarque's best games
By Rick Lane published
Cosmic encounter The Housemarque veteran guides us through the games on his PC.

Mina the Hollower has a secret ending, but good luck seeing it
By Rick Lane published
News If you want to see Mina's alternate conclusion, prepare yourself for an ordeal.

Frontier is making a Planet game that isn't about zoos or rollercoasters, and has just filed trademarks for Planet Resort and Planet Festival
By Rick Lane published
News Planet crafters.
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