Latest articles by Rick Lane
Erik Wolpaw, co-writer of Portal and Portal 2 adores Burnout Paradise and has 1,500 hours in Slay the Spire: 'This is the perfect level of strategy'
Paradise killer "It's the exact, perfect level of decision making and cognitive load for my brain."
Last Flag, the multiplayer shooter from the Imagine Dragons guy, is free to play for every weekend until its first update comes out
News "We wanted to give everyone who hasn't had a chance to check out Last Flag the opportunity to play for free!"
Shapez 2 leaves early access with a new game mode all about building massive factories: 'This isn't just a game is finished release'
News Manufacture mode "addresses one of the biggest feedback points we got during early access".
Bloodlines 2's first DLC arrives next week, and it'll let you wield guns and melee weapons properly, unlike the base game
News The DLC will offer a "new take" on the Brujah clan.
As Enter the Gungeon celebrates its 10th anniversary, its creators have some choice words for the modern roguelike: 'We’re seeing it mutate to the version of itself that popularity obfuscates'
News "So few people are trying to make something that is truly evocative of this experience of playing Rogue".
Menace's first major early access update overhauls its least interesting faction and jettisons its reviled promotion tax system: 'We have done away with it'
News Who doesn't love a rebate?
With Silent Hill 2's source code still MIA, a dedicated fan has decided to restore the game's CGI renders: 'Takayoshi' Sato's work was incredible for its time'
Konami lost the game's original code prior to releasing the HD Collection.
Helldivers 2 is getting a mech-themed Warbond that adds two new exosuits—one of which carries a shield and a flak cannon
News Exo Experts arrives on April 28.
Dave Oshry, CEO of New Blood Interactive, will never uninstall Doom from his PC, and has over 488 hours in Fallout 76: 'It's the best cryptid hunting game'
Riding shotgun The publisher of DUSK, Ultrakill and Gloomwood gives us the lowdown on the games on his PC.
The sequel to flying city-builder Airborne Kingdom just hit 1.0 with a huge update and a 50% discount
News Airborne Empire soars out of Steam early access.
A YouTuber has unearthed Dark Souls 2's enormous cut sewers map, and it's another fascinating insight into the design of FromSoftware's most divisive work
News The area that became The Gutter was far more elaborate in its initial form.
This hugely impressive Minecraft mod lets you build all manner of functioning vehicles, including planes, combine harvesters, and even airships
News Create Aeronautics lets you travel across Minecraft's world in style.
Marathon's most popular shotgun is getting nerfed a second time, as Bungie worries it is 'eclipsing a lot of the other short range options that exist in the game'
News "We're gonna take a shot at bringing the WSTR more in line."
This wildly ambitious total conversion mod for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas lets you explore the setting of 2003's Manhunt
News GTA: Carcer City lets you do crimes in the Rust Belt.
Help! The Millennium Bug made all the robots in my mansion go berserk, and only Homer Simpson can save the day
Bug hunt Is Y2K: The Game a deft exploration of late '90s digital anxiety? No! But is it a fun game anyway? Also no!
After 23 years, CCP is about to do the unthinkable: add a non-PvP zone to EVE Online
News "Getting more new players benefits New Eden as a whole."
Here's that free fan remake of 1999's PlayStation-exclusive Medal of Honor you were looking for
News Medal of Honor Retro Remake blends bespoke game logic with assets from 2002's Allied Assault.
Last Flag, the debut game from the studio founded by Imagine Dragons' lead singer, becomes the latest multiplayer shooter struggling to find an audience
News The capture-the-flag themed shooter attracted fewer than 600 concurrent players on launch, according to SteamDB.
DayZ creator Dean 'Rocket' Hall has over 2,000 hours in Kerbal Space Program and played the original XCOM at Mount Everest base camp: 'I think when I die, I will still be playing that game'
Rocket powered The founder of RocketWerkz talks us through the games on his PC.
Open-world crime game Samson beats up a bunch of bugs in a new patch, as developer admits it 'released a game with flaws'
News "We are listening to everyone's feedback."
Anno 117's first DLC will let you disregard history by building your Roman city next to a massive volcano
News Prophecies of Ash launches on April 23.
Terraforming survival game The Planet Crafter gets a beefy 2.0 update and a 50% discount: 'We wanted to take some time to improve multiple things'
News The latest patch adds a new biome, a graphics overhaul, and skyboxes that evolve in real-time.
Tribal survival game Soulmask leaves early access with a new Egypt-themed DLC that's free for the next month
News 1.0 launch represents "a complete reinvention of the game".
