Latest articles by Rick Lane
As it rapidly approaches $1 billion in player funding, Star Citizen goes free to play until May 27
News No taxation, just representation.
The director of the best Splinter Cell game reckons that modern lighting engines are making stealth games 'so much harder to read'
News "It gets very hard to tell what’s light, what’s shadow, what’s dark, what’s safe, what’s dangerous."
Scott Miller, founder of Apogee, has over 1,000 hours in World of Warcraft and always plays a warrior in any RPG: 'I like to get right in their face and pound away'
Realm walker The shareware pioneer guides us through the games on his PC.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director weighs in on the real-time versus turn-based debate, saying that younger players 'increasingly favour more real-time experiences in games'
News But Hamaguchi still reckons that turn-based games are "deeply universal."
Star Citizen's latest alpha update brings a 'full reset' to its universe, as Cloud Imperium Games promises to crack down on player exploits and duplication issues
News Players keep their blueprints and ships bought with in-game currency, but that's it.
Civilization 7's imminent update will add one of history's most famous conquerors for free, in Firaxis' latest bid to coax you back to its controversial sequel
News Tests of Time has one last surprise in store.
This indie action RPG looks like Minecraft but plays like Dark Messiah, letting you boot enemies off ledges and body slam them into walls of spikes
News The Adventures of Sir Kicksalot is out now
This game about being a chaotic mage might be the best indie immersive sim you can play, as I learned after destroying a mime's house with magnetism
Rhelly good Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times is a delight.
MercurySteam announces 'difficult and painful' job cuts as its God of War-inspired hack 'n' slash arrives on Steam
News The developer of Blades of Fire has initiated a "workforce adjustment process."
6 million more people are using Firefox because of new EU rules, which is good news for Chrome haters like me
News Other third-party browsers are seeing upticks too.
Sink your teeth into V Rising for free this weekend, and you can grab the full game for less than half price
News All DLC is also 20% off.
Fallout's creator reveals you could have played as a snoring cow hater who believes in UFOs, had Black Isle stuck with its original licensed roleplaying system
News Tim Cain spills the tea on "GURPS Fallout".
Bennett Foddy, designer of QWOP and Baby Steps, is obsessed with friendslop games and won't uninstall Baldur's Gate 3, even though he'll probably never finish it: 'It was too big and so I stopped'
Loco motion The master of bizarre control schemes talks us through the games on his PC.
Two Point Museum's latest DLC features a buildable studio where artists can create 'millions' of unique artworks, and there's 'no generative AI involved' whatsoever
News Two Point Museum: Arty Facts is available now.
Rust's latest update adds mortars but 'no visual guide to help you land shells,' so get ready for some chaos
News "Firing a mortar requires mastery through trial & error."
How a trio of Canadian modders stumbled into making an official Die Hard game: 'I've had projects disappear that had 10 times the promise that this did'
Hard lessons The strange origin of MechWarrior steward Piranha Games.
Europa Universalis 5's 'biggest update yet' expands the Balkans, overhauls the economy, and fixes more than 2,000 bugs
News The Encinades update also reworks orthodoxy and improves military systems.
Abiotic Factor just got another massive update that adds better pets, a ludicrously involved chemistry system, and most importantly, a mop for cleaning up all your failed experiments
News Cosmic Companions is live now.
This very normal Half-Life mod lets you play as 'queen of spacetime' Max Caulfield, and it's convinced me that the next Life is Strange should be a full-on boomer shooter
News Half-Life is Strange adds rewind powers and teen angst into Valve's FPS.
Conan Exiles whips out a massive Unreal Engine 5 upgrade that includes an 'enhanced endowment slider' to further improve player penises
News Biggus Clickus.
Arrowhead addresses the Helldivers 2 community as recent Steam reviews slump to Mostly Negative: 'We want to be clearer about what we're working on and what's coming next'
Multi-week campaigns, new vehicles, and more red stratagems are all apparently in the works.
Erik Wolpaw, co-writer of Portal and Portal 2 adores Burnout Paradise and has 1,500 hours in Slay the Spire: 'This is the perfect level of strategy'
Paradise killer "It's the exact, perfect level of decision making and cognitive load for my brain."
Last Flag, the multiplayer shooter from the Imagine Dragons guy, is free to play for every weekend until its first update comes out
News "We wanted to give everyone who hasn't had a chance to check out Last Flag the opportunity to play for free!"
