Latest articles by Rick Lane
If you simply cannot wait for the new Heroes of Might and Magic, this sci-fi take on HoMM just launched from Steam early access
News Heroes of Science and Fiction is Might and Magic, but in space!
After one of Blood's best mods added a new episode in January, another brilliant spin on Monolith's shooter just got an even bigger overhaul
News Death Wish 2.0 available on ModDB or in Nightdive's recent remaster.
The Last Caretaker's latest update embraces its inner Dr Evil by adding sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads
News The Curiosity Wakes update also adds spiderbot companions and player customisation.
Blight: Survival offers a fresh slice of its medieval zombie-slaying, after its developer took a break to 'rebuild our core systems from the ground up'
News "We spent a lot of time digging into the original vision."
Abubakar Salim, Surgent Studios founder and Raised by Wolves star, gives us a guided tour of his PC: 'My desktop is so bad that even my wife refuses to look at my screen'
Salim pickings The creator of Tales of Kenzera: Zau discusses playing No Rest for the Wicked, Dave the Diver, and his lifelong love of Solitaire.
Beaver-themed city-builder Timberborn has gnawed its way out of early access, and surprise! It has Factorio-style automation now
News Beavering away.
Fantasy heist sim Project Shadowglass is even more inspired by Thief than I had realised, as a new trailer shows off water arrows, blackjack knockouts, and authentically sloppy swordfighting
News Heist to meet you.
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is getting an expansion that introduces the series' first ever new class, and it’s a dwarf driving a weaponised bulldozer that flattens terrain and enemies alike
News The Heavy Duty DLC is out next month.
I desperately want the Just Cause creator's new open-city game to be great, but I'm not convinced by its latest trailer
News Samson has a great premise, but the new footage leaves me with concerns.
Total Chaos is a relentlessly bleak and occasionally terrifying remake of one of Doom's greatest mods, though its brilliant legacy is also its biggest weakness
Partial success Trigger Happy Interactive's remake is a fun upgrade for fans of the original mod, but it doesn't quite live up to the standards of the survival horror greats.
Get up to 85% off the Dead Space games in EA's franchise sale, including Motive's excellent remake that will probably never see a successor
News Dead cheap.
The creator of Stephen's Sausage Roll has released a new puzzle-platformer where you play as an egg, in the latest example of a developer fallen to the sunny side
News But should you give Oeuf a fry, or ovoid it entirely?
Throwback XCOM successor Xenonauts 2 leaves early access in April, though the developer says the milestone 'doesn't mean our work is done'
News "We're planning to continue improving and patching the game after launch."
22 years later, this classic Half-Life zombie survival mod shambles onto Steam with all new features
News Zombie Panic! arrives with a new fatigue system, reworked maps and "zombie vision".
CEO of Kitfox Games reckons hundreds of hours playing Civilization could be the secret to the Dwarf Fortress publisher's success: 'Maybe Kitfox wouldn't be as successful if I didn't know how to alternate between science trees and army defences'
Short memories Tanya X. Short, the designer of Boyfriend Dungeon and the upcoming Streets of Fortuna, talks TR-49 and surviving the pandemic with Tabletop Simulator.
This bizarre CRPG features claymation graphics, beat 'em up combat and the option to send defeated enemies to a prison colony, and it just left early access after a massive final update
News Banquet for Fools is bursting with strange ideas.
Human Fall Flat, which is bizarrely one of the best-selling games of all time, gets a Viking-themed map featuring Dave the Diver for some reason
News Dave the Berserker.
The sci-fi survival game from the creator of DayZ heads to space Skyrim in its latest DLC, accompanied by a free update that adds oil processing and chainsaws
News Dangerous Horizons is available now.
Before Doom, there was Dangerous Dave, and John Romero's 8-bit hero is getting a spiritual successor next week
News Haunted Lands is out March 10.
A decade before Stalker, this obscure Ukrainian Quake clone was quietly breaking new ground for first-person shooters
Memory holed Chasm: The Rift is an early European contender to American FPS supremacy.
You can play Cities: Skylines for free this weekend, ahead of the launch of its first expansion in 2 years
News Try Colossal Order's original city-builder before Race Day arrives.
I was pleasantly surprised by this BioShock-coded roguelike FPS, and its latest update adding a speargun has me yearning to dive back in
News Patch 1.2 also adds a new ability and extra boss patterns.
Elder Scrolls wannabe Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon gets a 'huge' update overhauling its weaker third act with new locations, quests, enemies and more
News Painted grail.
American McGee has come out of retirement to make an Alice spiritual successor based on his plushie empire
News "There's a kind of obvious overlap, but not one that gets us in trouble with the lawyers."
Cara Ellison, senior narrative designer on Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 before Paradox switched developers, discusses her love of Troika's original RPG: 'Everyone on the team helped really make that maximum goth'
Word games The narrative designer of Void Bastards and Ghost Town walks us through what's on her PC.
