Latest articles by Rick Lane
'The mid-2000s was the golden era of first-person shooters': David Syzmankski, creator of Dusk and Iron Lung, discusses the games on his PC
Old blood The New Blood dev guides us through the games in his Steam library.
God of War Laufey star Deborah Ann Woll isn't phased by the negative reactions to its announcement: 'I feel totally unbothered'
News "I just know it's great."
Gears of War's creator is considering returning to game development, but whatever he makes won't be PvP like his last efforts: 'Good luck to anyone in that space'
News "Players just want to hop online with friends and shoot some stuff."
007: First Light was originally going to be less about James Bond and more of 'an ensemble piece', with 'all the 00s working together, as they do in Slovakia'
"You had the different agents working together."
Valve reassures Team Fortress 2 players that it's still working on the Mann vs Machine update it announced last year: 'We promise we're making progress'
news "It's taking a lot longer to sort through the new content and changes than we'd originally anticipated."
Get 15 games for $15 in Humble's 2K Megahits bundle, including Bioshock Infinite, Risk of Rain 2, and one of my favourite shooters of all time
News Also includes XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Borderlands 3, and Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition.
Valve says there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, and prices are only going to increase: 'Honestly, it's still getting worse'
News Retail availability is lagging bulk supply by "at least three to six months" according to a Valve engineer.
2026's best RPG might look like Disco Elysium, but it was heavily inspired by Deus Ex, and its creator wants 'to do a first-person game at some point'
Clerical error The designer of Esoteric Ebb guides us through the games on his PC.
Helldivers 2 dev cracks down on 'suspicious super credit activity', though it would help if earning premium currency wasn't so boring to begin with
News "We're starting to implement changes that will tackle issues like this."
Tempest Rising's elusive third faction will get its own singleplayer campaign as a paid expansion, and you can play the demo right now
News The Veti's Wrath releases "later this year".
Valve has rewired Counter-Strike 2's bomb to make it more spectacular, but potentially less deadly
News Bomb has been supplanted.
Star Citizen's next update will switch focus to fixing its bug-riddled previous update, with bigger changes shunted to a later patch
News "We're moving Siege of Orison and all instance-related content out of Alpha 4.9.0".
Mortal Shell 2 is the latest game to join the Grand Theft Auto 6 release crush, but I don't think it has much to worry about because it looks sick as hell
News Cold Symmetry's soulslike releases in August.
After Space Marine 2 'literally changed everything', Saber Interactive has been inundated with offers from major licenses: 'We are in a very fortunate position to turn down more than we can accept'
News "It changed how people look at us."
Sally Beaumont, voice actor in Old Skies and The Séance of Blake Manor, extols the virtues of narrative singleplayer games 'You can have lots of them in your PC toolbelt'
Sally forth The voice of Old Skies' Fia Quinn guides us through the games on her PC.
Nightdive says compatibility with fan missions was a big priority for Thief Remastered, and there's one massive mod in particular it knew it had to get working
News "Obviously the big one in the room is The Black Parade".
Creative Assembly wants to know which factions you wish to play as in Total War: Medieval 3, but whatever you do, don't ask to play as the Pope
News Some factions are already "locked in".
Spyro speedrunner says a PC port of the original game is in the works, and it's being made with 'no AI'
News The port runs at 60 FPS, supports true widescreen and has "no polygon wobble".
Skyrim's lead designer reckons releasing Elder Scrolls and Fallout games faster risks 'disappointing fans'
News "The biggest risks of shortened schedules is quality, reduced features, polish, or bugs."
I tried to create the perfect zombie apocalypse in this intensely detailed outbreak simulator, and sorry slow zombie fans, fast zombies are just better
Infectious "It's the game I wanted to play but couldn't because it didn't exist, so I made it."
Not content with a Nightdive remaster, Thief's also getting a graphic novel and an original soundtrack featuring Garrett's voice actor
News Thief: Pulse of Promise is set between the first two games.
Helldivers 2's next warbond is delayed, as Arrowhead says it 'needs more time to cook' following the shooter's massive progression rework
News "We will provide more information as it nears completion."
The next game from the director of Blood West is a frozen survival shooter where you scratch a living off the decaying corpse of a god
News Bloodwoven gives eldritch horror an arctic spin.
