Latest articles by Rick Lane
This massively ambitious The Witcher 3 mod aims to recreate its biggest cut questline, and you could be the voice of Geralt of Rivia
News The War Project will add 12 new quests across 10 more hours of monster hunting.
Palworld 1.0 won't wipe your data, 'but you should' says Pocketpair's publishing boss
News "We believe that starting a new character will give you the best experience of Palworld".
Dying Light 2 is a platform now, as the Breach update opens up Techland's zombie survival game 'even more to UGC content'
News "Patch 1.28 is something we wanted to do for a long time."
Don't expect the Death Stranding movie to retell the story of the games, as its director says the film will be set in his 'own corner of the world'
News But you "might see some characters from the game pop up".
Alex Goldman loves challenging games like The Binding of Isaac, but the former Reply All cohost may have been defeated by Hollow Knight: Silksong: 'I spend six hours on a boss and I'm like what is life?'
Tech rapport The creator of Hyperfixed guides us through the games on his PC.
Helldivers 2 will evolve major orders into galactic war campaigns later this month, with huge changes to mission distribution and Super Destroyers also in the works
News Better ship customisation is also coming to Arrowhead's sci-fi shooter.
CD Projekt Red's mysterious Project Hadar will be an 'emotional, open-world experience' similar to The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk
News A job posting reveals a few more details about CDPR's unannounced game.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Season 4 adds a mode that removes OmniMovement and a gun that aims for you
News Black Ops classic offers "streamlined" loadouts and a "throwback" map roster.
Satisfactory's first major update in a year brings back rain, adds fuel trucks and overhauls vehicle pathfinding, but Steam Deck players should approach with caution
News Rain check.
DLSS 5 isn't the first time the future of videogame graphics looked like total balls
Triangles vs balls Tracing the brief history of ellipsoid graphics.
Star Citizen's latest alpha patch adds 385 asteroid defence missions, but players are reporting problems with broken hangar doors and exploding pilots
News Alpha 4.8.1 gives players the chance to earn 'unique blueprints for the first time', if they can actually complete the missions.
2026's weirdest tech leak involves scuba diving, a Caribbean island, and Gearbox head honcho Randy Pitchford, and no, it's not what you expect
News Water reveal.
Bloodlines 2's final DLC introduces swordfighting, dual pistol wielding, and other stuff that should probably have been in the base game
News The Flower and The Flame tells the story of glamorous Toreador Ysabella.
The UK government is considering banning children from speaking to strangers in games like Fortnite and Roblox
News The UK's online safety minister is concerned about 'stranger pairing' in games.
There's one game Don't Nod narrative designer Nina Freeman won't ever uninstall from her PC, because it's banned on Steam: 'It's tragic, because everyone should play this game'
Follow Freeman The chief writer of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage talks us through her Steam library.
Star Citizen's single-player component is in the 'closing stages' of development according to Chris Roberts, as rumours of another Squadron 42 delay circulate
News Cloud Imperium Games is getting "imminently closer to launch."
Factorio's next major update will also be its last, as its developer announces it has 'reached a good place to conclude active gameplay development'
News Wube Software will shift focus onto "long term support" after update 2.1.
This fan remake of 1999's Medal of Honor proved so popular that its creator added a level cut from the original game
News Version 1.1 of Medal of Honor: Retro Remake lets players infiltrate Colditz Castle.
The Stop Killing Games movement hits another major milestone as a game preservation bill passes California State Assembly vote
News The bill now moves on to the California State Senate.
The remarkable story of Unreal 2, the sequel rescued from development hell by dooming it to failure: 'There was just no way we could succeed'
Unreal expectations "It made it possible for us to ship something, but what we shipped was not what people wanted."
After more than two decades, the creator of Paint.NET finally owns the domain paint.net, and it's all thanks to a 'slam dunk case of trademark infringement'
News "I've been trying to get this domain for 22 years."
Bungie spills the beans on combat tuning for Marathon Season 2, and it's bad news for shotgun lovers and thermal snipers
News Bungie says it wants player weapon choices to "feel more intentional".
It seems Terraria's developer is as bad at making small updates as it is final ones, as it says its latest balance patch is much more than 'adjusting a few numbers'
News "Sometimes, addressing balance means rethinking some core aspects around how things function."
