Latest articles by Rick Lane
DayZ creator Dean 'Rocket' Hall has over 2,000 hours in Kerbal Space Program and played the original XCOM at Mount Everest base camp: 'I think when I die, I will still be playing that game'
Rocket powered The founder of RocketWerkz talks us through the games on his PC.
Open-world crime game Samson beats up a bunch of bugs in a new patch, as developer admits it 'released a game with flaws'
News "We are listening to everyone's feedback."
Anno 117's first DLC will let you disregard history by building your Roman city next to a massive volcano
News Prophecies of Ash launches on April 23.
Terraforming survival game The Planet Crafter gets a beefy 2.0 update and a 50% discount: 'We wanted to take some time to improve multiple things'
News The latest patch adds a new biome, a graphics overhaul, and skyboxes that evolve in real-time.
Tribal survival game Soulmask leaves early access with a new Egypt-themed DLC that's free for the next month
News 1.0 launch represents "a complete reinvention of the game".
Revisiting Redfall after its final update reveals the ghost of the game it wanted to be
Community Patch Arkane Austin's final game is still disappointing, but I'm now convinced that it could have been great.
This wildly ambitious modpack transforms the third-person, N64 exclusive Duke Nukem: Zero Hour into a 'jank '90s FPS' for your PC
News Duke Nukem: Zero Hour Overclocked reinvigorates the console shooter with first-person perspective and mouse and keyboard controls.
A character model datamined from Grand Theft Auto 5's source code 'could actually be Agent's protagonist', according to online sleuth
GTAForums user provides compelling evidence that the model is the lead character of Rockstar's cancelled spy game.
This 'highly realistic' city-builder could be the first real competition Cities: Skylines has seen in over a decade
News Could City Masterplan do to Skylines what Skylines did to SimCity?
You can finally rescue Half-Life's guards and scientists thanks to this mod inspired by Lemmings
News Half-Life: Lemmings lets you save the trapped employees of the Black Mesa: Facility.
Gray Zone Warfare's player count jumps by over 1000% following its most recent update: 'Players are coming back'
News The extraction shooter had over 126,000 daily active players after its Spearhead patch.
A Japanese indie developer is seeking legal action over alleged missing funds from a crowdfunding campaign, says the funding platform claims the money was 'mistakenly wired to a different client'
News The successor to 428: Shibuya Scramble suffers a bizarre financial setback.
Marathon's most powerful gun gets a major nerf, as Bungie seeks to 'curb a little bit of its dominion in the game'
News Biotoxic Disinjector gets a big damage reduction.
Tarn Adams, co-creator of Dwarf Fortress, has over 1,400 hours in Factorio and is currently obsessed with terraforming games: 'Dwarf Fortress just doesn't accommodate a full-on sci-fi thing'
Deep dive Bay 12 Games' co-founder talks playing The Planet Crafter, Beast, and more than 40 years of saved desktops.
This Nightdive-remastered 3DO shooter shows why it took Halo to break PC gaming's FPS hegemony
Kitchen nightmares Playing PO'ed will make you feel exactly like that.
Rust is getting hydro power through water wheels that can also be powered by humans: 'Before you ask, yes, you can force handcuffed players into them'
News Facepunch's latest update also adds armoured ladder hatches, coloured buttons, and Easter-themed bunny costumes
After 36 years at the legendary FPS studio, Raven Software co-founder Brian Raffel is retiring
News Raffel has led the Heretic and Call of Duty developer since its foundation.
Bungie provides details on Marathon's imminent Recon buff 'by popular demand', revealing an improved Echo Pulse and a 'more aggressive' tracker drone
Recon's area scanning ability will soon distinguish between AI and human enemies.
Take-Two has seemingly laid off an unspecified portion of its AI team, including its head of AI
News Luke Dicken, who previously spent a decade with Zynga, says his time with the company "has come to an end".
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.
