Latest articles by Rick Lane
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun's free typing spinoff doubles its wordcount with 3 new levels and over 400 extra phrases
News Space(bar) Marine.
Surviving Mars: Relaunched arrives in orbit next month, bringing a whole new political system and every DLC from the get-go
News Reviving Mars.
After 6 years, fantasy survive 'em up Necesse leaves early access with 'infinite seamless biomes', an end to its endgame, and a half-price discount
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Techland reveals an 11-week roadmap for Dying Light: The Beast, the gaming equivalent of a hastily-drawn sketch showing the way to the nearest post office
News Expect ray tracing, new game plus and nightmare difficulty before the end of the year.
This wild mod for Metal Gear Solid 5 massively expands its Subsistence system and makes enemies learn new tactics within missions rather than across them
News The mod's goal is to "make you feel like you're playing MGSV for the first time".
'GZDoom is basically dead' modders proclaim as contributors split from Doom's most popular sourceport, with tensions boiling over after its creator adds AI-generated code to the project
News "The project is now completely bricked and everyone is abandoning ship."
Drive a truck filled with explosives across horrible terrain in this gnarly mix of Snowrunner and Baby Steps—inspired by one of Hollywood's most misunderstood films
News Nitroglycerine! is a dream come true: playable Sorcerer.
Doom: The Dark Ages gets Steam Deck verification and a bunch of portable optimisations, just in time for the launch of Microsoft's new handheld
News Update 2.2 also brings further tweaks to combat fundamentals and enemy encounters.
Promising RTS Dinolords, which is basically Age of Empires with dinosaurs, is getting a closed alpha playtest that you can join later this month
News Ever wanted to play as a Viking riding a velociraptor? Now's your chance.
Kick ass and chew brains in Duke Nukem: Horror Castle, a spooky mod where you blast skeletons and chow down on the gooey insides of their skulls
News The latest version gives the mod a Hallowe'en makeover.
Strategy roguelike 9 Kings finally has 9 kings, though a new perk lets you revert it to 8 kings if nine kings proves too many
Crowning achievement.
A new ToeJam and Earl is 'in the planning stage' according to its co-creator, but don't expect to see it anytime soon: 'We intend to make it happen'
News The new entry will be "a combination of games one and two".
The bold and futile attempt to fix the disastrous Aliens: Colonial Marines
Alien Resurrection? Can a mod fix this infamously terrible Gearbox shooter?
Prepare to have your brain fried by this electric shoot 'em up from an ex-Housemarque designer when it launches next month
News Sektori's demo blew me away when I played it last year.
You'll need to be careful moving around the forests of Hell Let Loose: Vietnam, as its trees will help players identify potential threats: 'It can be very hard to understand where you're dying from'
News Tree of death.
A sequel to Aliens: Fireteam Elite is almost certainly in development, having briefly burst onto the ESRB's website
News Developer Cold Iron Studios has previously stated it is developing a game that builds "on the success of Aliens: Fireteam Elite".
Renegade graphics warlock makes Half-Life look like Half-Life 2, then runs it on an ancient laptop, raising a middle finger to poorly optimised PC games
News Phong Song.
The Outer Worlds 2: All the key details on Obsidian’s sci-fi sequel
Moon shots Knowledge, such a fickle concept.
Titan Quest 2's second chapter transports you to The Northern Beaches, where you'll find 9 new dungeons and 3 more bosses to batter
News Chapter Two "concludes your fight against the Ichthian threat".
Rust developer is fed up with survivors cowering in their homes, so it's reworking progression to 'get players back out of their bases'
News "We don't believe this has been overwhelmingly negative, but it has detracted from world PvP."
Manor Lords gets its first update since January, and its creator says he is 'rethinking what went wrong to ensure it won't happen again'
News "I focussed on expanding the team and tackled way too many issues at once".
The creator of Voxel Doom has spent the last three years making Voxel Duke Nukem 3D, and it's almost ready to rock
News Dan Peterson's latest FPS makeover features 'nearly a thousand voxels'.
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'
The Path of Daggers "I never played my games after they were done, but this one I played forever because it was so fun."
