Latest articles by Rick Lane
Before The Witcher 3 launched, CD Projekt was terrified that Batman: Arkham Knight would flatten it with its Batmobile: 'They're just gonna roll over us'
News "I still remember how bombed we were."
Fancy playing Sea of Thieves without the PvP? This pirate-themed survival game just left early access with a big update and a launch discount
News Developer Lavaboots Studios will " continue expanding" the game after launch.
One of Elden Ring's best overhaul mods just received a massive update that adds fully functional multiplayer
News Also adds a new dungeon and extra combat moves.
That weird Pac-Man metroidvania just got a big update, adding a new mode that 'significantly lowers the difficulty of combat and exploration'
News Doesn't do much to improve the writing, though.
Responding to problems in a live-service game is like having a 'big clock,' says Battlefield 6 director: 'You measure and value your time to the player' so they know you're paying attention
News "We're also weighing that against our future ambitions."
Someone's finally making a spiritual successor to Bully, but I wish it wasn't inspired by some of the worst comedies ever made
News Agefield High: Rock the School wants to take you back to the most cringeworthy bits of 2002.
Far-right Polish politician tries to score points by addressing GTA 6's delay in parliament: 'This is a huge scandal'
News Bizarre scene goes viral on social media.
Former Bungie director thinks the term extraction shooter is 'so dumb' that he wanted to work with Marathon's marketing team to 'create a different genre name'
News "It's the only genre where its name is a mechanic."
As Kingdom Come Deliverance 2's latest DLC launches, Warhorse reveals its grand plan for the future: 'We want to establish ourselves as the new kings of RPGs'
News The studio's next project will 'go in the same direction' as KCD 2.
Phasmophobia's latest update introduces a spooky diner, bringing the game one step closer to its 1.0 launch
News Nell's Diner is on the smaller side for Phasmo maps, but it's also one of the densest yet.
CD Projekt's co-CEO says The Witcher 2's momentous midgame choice was an 'experiment' and now regards it as a 'waste of resources'
News The developer "brought totally something new" for The Witcher 3.
Fallout 4's Creations Bundle stumbles from the Vault to Mostly Negative reviews, as players lament the pack 'does not work' and 'made the game buggier'
News Bethesda breaking its own game? Surely not.
PC gaming's best free multiplayer shooter continues to be preposterously generous, with its latest update adding 50 new maps, custom music and more: 'We definitely want Straftat to live as long as possible'
News You've gotta love the Lemaitre brothers.
Todd Howard says that Fallout 4's cinematic dialogue system 'really did not resonate' with players, even though Bethesda 'spent forever' working on it
News "A lot of players were like, 'That's not the voice I hear in my head'."
'The unimaginable has happened'—Dune: Awakening's player count drops below Funcom's other survival game released eight years ago, as engagement with Arrakis dries up
News Conan Exiles currently has more players—though there is a big caveat.
Leaked PlayStation store files suggest that Sony could be exploring cross-buy between PC and PS5
News Files reveal "Cross-Buy" and "PC/PS5" symbols.
Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, one of the PC's best spaceship strategy games, 'will no longer be available for purchase on any platform' as of next week
News Another Slitherine-published game bites the dust.
No Man's Sky is rerunning all of its expeditions from 2025, while also giving players another chance to add Mass Effect's Normandy to their spaceship collection
News "Much more content planned and in active development" for 2026.
Terminator 2D: No Fate has been pushed back a second time, as its publisher scrambles to assemble physical copies after tariff-induced shipping woes: 'We are sincerely sorry for the repeated delays'
News The 16-bit throwback will now release in December.
Rust doubles down on its 'controversial' meta changes by wiping everyone's crafting blueprints to 'bring back that sense of discovery', and it might become a regular thing
News The latest update also adds mini-fridges and lets you use medical syringes on horses.
How a former NASA employee became the world's foremost author of videogame cookbooks: 'It can't look like you're eating a Pokémon'
Grilled Wars Victoria Rosenthal has written recipe books based on Fallout, Guild Wars 2, Final Fantasy 14, and many more.
The weirdest FPS of the decade just got a free, standalone PvP mode that's a blast if you can keep your lunch down
News Duelling as biblically accurate angels is sick, but may also make you feel sick.
After Helldivers 2 stole its thunder, Starship Troopers: Extermination is now cribbing from Arrowhead's worksheet by adding airstrikes in its next update
News Update 1.8 will also add a group progression system and an ice-themed map.
