Latest articles by Rick Lane
The Expanse RPG's developers are 'humbled' by comparisons to BioWare's heyday, but don't expect it to be a straight Mass Effect clone: 'We make our story a little bit differently'
News "We’re making more choices and consequences."
Total War: Warhammer 3's Tides of Torment DLC is delayed: 'We asked ourselves if this next DLC met the standards that we’ve set in recent releases, and the short answer was no'
News A new release date will be revealed later this year.
This wildly ambitious Yakuza 5 co-op mod lets you play together as Kiryu and Ichiban, even folding Like a Dragon's protagonist into the game's cutscenes
News Explore, fight, and dance together in RGG's massive fifth adventure.
You can now play both campaigns of the original Command & Conquer in 2-player co-op, thanks to one of its best mods
News Joint Operations.
Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader just received another 'massive' update, this time directed at its expansion
News Update 1.4.1 makes a new party character appear earlier in the game, among many other changes.
Norland's 'big summer update' is even larger than March's 'damn big update', introducing a politics system, a new economy and more authentically medieval buildings to the Crusader Kings-inspired colony sim
News Developer Long Jaunt plans to focus on roadmap features going forward.
Two Point Museum's latest update lets you manage a museum atop a massive mountain, and allows all players a taste of its upcoming fantasy-themed DLC
News Starter dungeon.
Witchfire's massive next update is inspired by games like Syndicate and Bloodborne, and it's the biggest one yet: 'We really mean it'
News The Webgrave update arrives July 28.
Ken Levine wanted System Shock 2's final level to be set in outer space, but the idea was shot down by its senior designers: 'They're like dude, we have 14 months to make this game'
News "I still went and made a level that looked entirely different and played entirely different."
Warren Spector was so desperate to make Deus Ex that it almost became a Command & Conquer RPG: 'I was going to find a way to make it one way or another, even if it meant making another damn sci-fi game!'
News PC gaming history could have been very different.
Deep Rock Galactic Survivor is gearing up for launch, literally—adding a fully-fledged gear system when it hits 1.0 in September
News Gear of Dwarves.
Preservationists discover a 'nearly complete' build of a lost Animaniacs game 22 years after it was cancelled, and you can play it right now
News Animaniacs: Hollywood Hypnotics hasn't been seen since 2003.
Rust's developer is overhauling the survival sim's mission system so it can create in-game quests faster and more easily: 'The process to create new missions internally is quite cumbersome and error prone'
News Latest update also adds a party system and "improved erosion".
What happened to the creator of Gunman Chronicles, Valve's forgotten FPS? 'My relationship with Gabe didn't really go that great'
Digital fossils Tracing the history of an ancient Valve artefact.
Runaway city-building success Manor Lords is getting a major overhaul to its systems: 'It's not just a new feature or two. It's a full rework'
News "Because we're working on all these big changes, we haven't been able to put out smaller patches."
Chaotic destruction sim Teardown breaks cover on its multiplayer update, revealing 8 player team deathmatch and support for modded servers
News Will be available for experimental testing soon.
RoboCop: Rogue City's expansion will let you play as ED-209, but I'm more excited about having some guns I might use instead of the Auto 9
News Also, what's going on with that voiceover?
Here's a mod that puts Halo's multiplayer into Half-Life, which to me feels like putting tea in your coffee
News Halo Goldsource brings Slayer and Firefight into Valve's classic shooter.
Wreckfest 2's latest update lets you drive a grotty motorhome that's definitely had meth cooked in it, and ensures that 'realistic damage mode is now more realistic'
News New tracks and demolition derby arenas also added.
For the first time in three years, Sable is free to keep on the Epic Store
News Grab Shedworks' beautiful open-world game gratis for the next week.
The brilliant Half-Life-inspired survival game Abiotic Factor cascades into 1.0 this July
News Deep Field Games wraps up early access development next month.
I played Lovecraftian doctor simulator Do No Harm, and let me tell you, my brother in Cthulhu, I did some serious harm
Hippocratic oaf Doctor Eadful is in the house.
Dying Light continues celebrating its 10th anniversary with a big graphical facelift, but don't you dare call it a remaster
News The Retouched update is "about squeezing out even more from the Dying Light you already love."
