Latest articles by Rick Lane
The RoboCop: Rogue City expansion that looks like Dredd will bring more trouble to your PC in July
News Unfinished Business gets a release date.
This upcoming life sim features co-op survival, farming, factory automation, time-travel romance, ghost hunting and mechs, which is probably why it doubled its Kickstarter goal in its first 24 hours
News Autonomica aims to do it all.
The adventure game that kicked off the Syberia series just got a shiny Myst-like makeover
News Amerzone – The Explorer's Legacy is out now.
The end of The Long Dark is in sight after over a decade in development, culminating in a fifth and final story episode that is '3 to 4 times as big' as episode 4
News "The episode is the most ambitious we've built so far."
This subreddit dedicated to the worst computer setups on Earth makes me weirdly proud to be a PC gamer
Masters of disaster Celebrating the gloriously terrible PC gaming setups of r/shittybattlestations.
Gloomwood's research update transforms it from Thief with guns into Dishonored with mutations, letting you inject dissected monster juice into yourself to gain their powers
News Jekyll and hide.
Dwarf Fortress sells 1 million copies on Steam, so now Bay 12 Games can afford that 'little party' it planned
News But the work continues.
After a disappointing sequel and a cancelled remake, the original Fear Effect is coming to PC 'for the first time ever'
News The cel-shaded action game's rerelease comes courtesy of Limited Run.
The Elder Scrolls Online celebrates its 10th anniversary a year late by selling off 2,000 pieces of its servers
News Own a shard of Tamriel.
Rebellion's CEO says 'it looks like we want to do more Atomfall' but it will depend on whether the studio can 'find the resources to do it'
News "It's nice when marketing comes back to you and says 'yep, we underestimated our high-level success.'"
Phil Spencer is 'really happy' with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, hinting there might be more Nazi punching adventures in the future: 'We do think there's life in that franchise'
News But he also wants Microsoft "to do our own games and our own franchises".
Painkiller's new weapons trailer gives us a good look at the reboot's guns, and I'm delighted to see that its iconic stake launcher still skewers enemies to walls
News Stake out.
After a disastrous recent update and a flurry of attempts to fix it, Path of Exile 2's next patch will bring 'two highly sought after improvements'
News Grinding Gear Games will launch update 0.2.0g "as soon as we can".
Tempest Rising review: A stalwart defence of everything that made the RTS great in the first place
Tiberian Son Tempest Rising is a rollicking RTS just like mama Westwood used to make.
The Epic Store's latest free games giveaway includes 'over $100' worth of stuff for the Forgotten Realms idle game
News Also includes River City Girls and in-game currency for Arcadeogeddon.
Age of Empires 2's quest to conquer the strategy globe continues unabated as The Three Kingdoms DLC invades ancient China this May
News Five new factions, three new campaigns, and camels wearing trebuchets all coming in the expansion.
Former Skyrim dev announces a vehicular free-running game where you launch a car through a claymation world using mouth-sound explosions, and that's the weirdest thing I've ever had to fit into a headline
News Deedlee Doo! Carkour! barrel-rolls onto Steam in May.
John Romero's brutal megawad Sigil 2 has formally chainsawed its way into Bethesda's Doom + Doom 2 remaster
News Doom's unofficial sixth episode is now considerably more official.
Neil Newbon definitely wants to play Astarion again, and if whatever studio that makes Baldur’s Gate 4 recasts him, he’ll totally ‘hunt them down and gut them like a fish’
News "I hope I get to play him again."
Following massive player fall-off, Amazon's MMO Lost Ark is getting an update to make levelling faster and address a 'known progression pain point'
News "These changes will help make progression more accessible."
Literary masterpiece The Count of Monte Cristo is being adapted as a clicker game about getting educated to escape prison
News Click for freedom.
Days Gone’s upcoming survival arcade mode will introduce endless hordes and ‘exploding freakers’, and I’m beginning to think it might be the best way to play the game
News Horde assault mode aims to turn the open world game into a survival roguelite.
Superb city-builder Against the Storm will round off its roster with a DLC of bats, who 'take pride in enduring what breaks others and cannot stand being favored'
News The DLC will launch alongside a free content update, though both are still "months away."
