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The Dwarf Fortress of survival gaming has been in continual development for 33 years, and its creator doesn't think he'll ever stop updating it: 'When I accomplish one feature, I always have two more waiting'
By Rick Lane published
All Finnish, no finish UnReal World has been in development since 1992.

Battlefield had a messy predecessor, Codename Eagle, that predates even DICE’s involvement in the series
By Jeremy Peel published
Roll of the dice The millennium-era reviews make for funny and illuminating reading.

I played communist Germany's only arcade cabinet and you can too, comrade
By Joshua Wolens published
Marx at the arcade VEB Polytechnik Karl-Marx-Stadt is my dev to watch for 2026.

The bold and futile attempt to fix the disastrous Aliens: Colonial Marines
By Rick Lane published
Alien Resurrection? Can a mod fix this infamously terrible Gearbox shooter?

Inside the astonishing development of 1999's The Wheel of Time FPS: 'The fact that we shipped anything at all is kind of a miracle'
By Rick Lane published
The Path of Daggers "I never played my games after they were done, but this one I played forever because it was so fun."

Whatever happened to They Hunger: Lost Souls, the sequel to one of Half-Life's best mods?
By Rick Lane published
Famished Unravelling the strange death of the once highly-anticipated mod.

The untold story of SiN Episodes involves freeway chases, electrical cannons, a nude Elexis, and a whole lotta penises: 'It took Walmart saying they would cancel their order in order to get that removed'
By Rick Lane published
Confessional Much like a certain fellow Source FPS that we were promised, SiN Episodes never got to the finish line.

The only good Postal game is a spinoff expressionist boomer shooter that takes place entirely in the protagonist's depraved mind
By Rick Lane published
Male (dis)order. Postal: Brain Damaged succeeds by using the series' scattershot satire as a basis to build great levels.
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