Latest articles by Rick Lane
The Chinese Room's co-founder told Paradox 'we can't make Bloodlines 2' but then they did make Bloodlines 2 and it was like 'untangling an anaconda f***ball of competing priorities'
News "We can't make Bloodlines 2, we can't make Skyrim, but we can make Dishonored."
Resurrected racer The Crew Unlimited swerves to avoid yet another death, as its curators issue 'one of the most important updates we've ever released'
News The patch fixes The Crew's equivalent of the Y2K bug.
Rockstar Games co-founder and former Grand Theft Auto scribe reckons there's 'always that danger' that the industry will get 'overly focussed on making money'
News "There's still a big ceiling creatively to create these living narrative experiences," Houser says on *checks notes* Sunday Brunch.
Almost 13 years since reveal, TimeSplitters Rewind is finally out: 'Sorry it took so long. We've only been making the largest free content video game ever'
News Early access is available to download now.
This roguelike take on Geometry Wars is the best game I've played this month, and the latest to become a permanent fixture on my Steam Deck
News Sektori is a blistering kaleidoscopic nightmare.
Fatshark celebrates 10 years of rat-bashing by adding one of Vermintide's 'most popular' maps into Vermintide 2, but 'things are not as before'
News Return to the Reik shakes up an old favourite.
Classic text adventure Zork is going open source, but I'm side-eyeing Microsoft's announcement about it hard
News Microsoft is working with the Internet Archive's Jason Scott.
Mafia: The Old Country's Free Ride update is out now, replacing its empty open world with an extremely basic one
News Also adds photo mode and first-person driving.
Cities: Skylines 2's bicycle update adds a lot more than just bikes, as Colossal Order prepares to hand over development to a new studio
News On yer bike.
5 months after launch, cooperative shooter FBC Firebreak finally has integrated voice chat, but its Vampire Survivors-style wave mode is delayed until next year
News Rogue Protocol now coming in January 2026.
This mech themed XCOM-like just got a gargantuan update that overhauls its campaign, redesigns its overworld, and adds personalities to pilots with 'over 100' unique traits
News Phantom Brigade 2.0 is out now.
Doom: The Dark Ages' latest update overhauls its customisable arena mode, and id Software wants to add the best player-made slaughter-fests as selectable presets
News Rip and share.
After bagging a Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 quest designer for The Witcher 4, CD Projekt snaps up BioShock 4's former narrative lead to work on Cyberpunk 2
News Liz Albl joins CD Projekt Red.
Forget Half-Life 3, the talking rat in Fatekeeper's latest trailer is the best thing you'll see this week
News Rat's entertainment.
Borderlands 4 has a 'very stupid' glitch that lets you unlock a character's most powerful abilities before refunding all your skill points, but don't expect it to be around long as Gearbox says 'we're on it'
News The glitch will "change the build meta for every build" according to the YouTuber who brought it to attention.
Inundated with slop, TikTok tests feature that will let users request to 'see less' AI generated content in their feeds
News The new toggle aims to help users "dial things down" on the AI front.
Delta Force devs apologise after Facepunch Studios exec accuses them of stealing assets from Rust: 'If you wanted to collab, you should have reached out'
News Facepunch spied some suspiciously familiar C4 in Delta Force's most recent trailer.
The developer of 80 Days was once invited to pitch a Doctor Who game, but never heard back from the BBC afterward: 'Technically, we're still waiting for a reply'
News And that's how we ended up with Heaven's Vault.
When Assassin's Creed's infamously dull main character was finally killed off, voice actor Nolan North didn't find out until a fan told him about it on Twitter
News But there might be life in Desmond Miles yet.
7 years after launch and 18 years after Steam, the Epic Games Store will now let you gift games directly to your friends
Consider it a late birthday present.
Silent Hill f fans reckon that its recent casual difficulty patch was inspired by the lead actor's livestreamed struggles with the game
News "Konatsu Kato has made an enormous contribution to the game industry."
After the bungled launch of Cities: Skylines 2, Paradox Interactive and Colossal Order part ways as development moves to a new studio
News Zoned out.
US Congressman calls for regulations to 'prevent companies from using AI to eliminate jobs to extract greater profit' following Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's calling card fiasco
News "Artists at these companies need to have a say in how AI is deployed."
