Latest articles by Rick Lane
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".
Revisiting Redfall after its final update reveals the ghost of the game it wanted to be
Community Patch Arkane Austin's final game is still disappointing, but I'm now convinced that it could have been great.
This wildly ambitious modpack transforms the third-person, N64 exclusive Duke Nukem: Zero Hour into a 'jank '90s FPS' for your PC
News Duke Nukem: Zero Hour Overclocked reinvigorates the console shooter with first-person perspective and mouse and keyboard controls.
A character model datamined from Grand Theft Auto 5's source code 'could actually be Agent's protagonist', according to online sleuth
GTAForums user provides compelling evidence that the model is the lead character of Rockstar's cancelled spy game.
This 'highly realistic' city-builder could be the first real competition Cities: Skylines has seen in over a decade
News Could City Masterplan do to Skylines what Skylines did to SimCity?
You can finally rescue Half-Life's guards and scientists thanks to this mod inspired by Lemmings
News Half-Life: Lemmings lets you save the trapped employees of the Black Mesa: Facility.
Gray Zone Warfare's player count jumps by over 1000% following its most recent update: 'Players are coming back'
News The extraction shooter had over 126,000 daily active players after its Spearhead patch.
A Japanese indie developer is seeking legal action over alleged missing funds from a crowdfunding campaign, says the funding platform claims the money was 'mistakenly wired to a different client'
News The successor to 428: Shibuya Scramble suffers a bizarre financial setback.
Marathon's most powerful gun gets a major nerf, as Bungie seeks to 'curb a little bit of its dominion in the game'
News Biotoxic Disinjector gets a big damage reduction.
Tarn Adams, co-creator of Dwarf Fortress, has over 1,400 hours in Factorio and is currently obsessed with terraforming games: 'Dwarf Fortress just doesn't accommodate a full-on sci-fi thing'
Deep dive Bay 12 Games' co-founder talks playing The Planet Crafter, Beast, and more than 40 years of saved desktops.
