Latest articles by Rick Lane
Old-school MMO Project: Gorgon launches into 1.0 with an update that adds 'by far the largest and most complex map we've ever made'
News Embark upon 200 new quests in the capital city of Statehelm.
'Brutally honest' city builder Microlandia gets brutally honest crime simulation: 'It's a spectrum of consequences that can become a death spiral every single day'
News "Cities are not clockwork, they are chaos machines with a mayor attached."
Lort devs reluctantly tweak the fantasy roguelike's difficulty after players complain the Risk of Rain 2 successor is too hard: 'You are meant to die and learn how to overcome the challenge'
News "But we also don't want it to be too aggravating to jump into quickly and have fun."
Early access multiplayer shooter Out of Action is, ironically, full of action, with cyborg ninjas blasting each other in a mix of Titanfall and Max Payne
News Come for the movement, stay for the "advanced multiplayer bullet time".
Dinner is served in Star Birds' latest early access update, adding bakeries and restaurants to the Dorfromantik devs' factory management sim: 'Ever fed an alien pizza?'
News Star Birds' three new levels are "longer and more complex" than those included at launch.
This horror game built from the bones of an abandoned FPS server and an accidental ARPG might be one of the strangest puzzlers I've ever played
Memory leak No Players Online is a truly esoteric adventure.
Inscryption-inspired card battler The Killing Stone gets a rad new trailer showing off voice talent from Critical Role and Baldur's Gate 3, and it's out next month
News Talk shop with demons and beat the Devil in a battle of wits in this spooky new title from the creators of The Blackout Club.
After debuting in Nightdive's second remaster, one of the best mods for classic FPS Blood just released its concluding episode for everyone to play
News Marrow: Chapter 2 is available for all now.
This side-scrolling metroidvania inspired by Bloodborne just got completely free DLC, and the base game is 50% off until February
News The Last Faith's developers sure are devoted.
No More Room in Hell 2 will add new ways to play in its upcoming 1.0 launch, one of which 'plays like your favourite classic game modes from the late 2000s'
News The multiplayer zombie splat-fest is also getting a "solo training mode".
FromSoftware-inspired RPG Lunacid is getting DLC, as its creator expresses bafflement at its success: 'This was supposed to be niche'
News The expansion is "about 70% done," though Kira LLC feels like "it's been at 70% forever."
Super Battle Golf improves the world's least interesting sport by letting you blast your competitors with orbital lasers
News Tees off in February.
You've got until Monday to get 80% off 2 of the best dungeon crawlers ever made
News Legend of Grimrock and its sequel are going cheap.
Terraria's long-awaited 1.4.5 patch finally has a release date, and it's this month: 'start the countdown'
News Sharpen your pickaxe for January 27.
This Thief fan mission has you play a blind character trying to steal back their sight, and honestly that's probably the least weird thing about it
Eye for an eye Thief: Selection Day is a masterclass in strange.
To celebrate the imminent launch of a new Styx adventure, Epic is giving away Cyanide's last two goblin-flavoured stealth games for free
News It's a steal.
The sequel to isometric mech sim Brigador gives off serious Syndicate vibes in its latest footage, and you can play its alpha version right now
News Stellar Jockeys describes Brigador Killers as "Hitman: Contracts meets GTA 2".
Earth Must Die in this adventure game boasting a Dispatch-like voice cast of British comedy superheroes, and it releases later this month
News Planetary annihilation commences on January 27.
Ambitious The Witcher 3 restoration mod adds yet more cut dialogue to the game, including a new Yennefer romance scene and extra choices for its most famous quest
News Plus some terrible Noonwraith cackling.
Here's that noir thriller built in the original Half-Life engine you asked for
News Blast your way through the neon-drenched city of Prava as you aim to take down its most dangerous gangster.
The Witcher 3's former lead quest designer says 'of course' there is romance in upcoming vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker: 'You can expect to build relationships with characters'
News Love bite.
Former Assassin's Creed director doesn't think the current way of making big budget games is 'tenable': 'I think the future lies in smaller teams'
News "There's this theory that says that whenever humans create something that surpasses a hundred people, it completely changes the dynamic of it."
Manor Lords' dev is experimenting with a new trading system that allows for 'deliberate economic strategies', including establishing monopolies on resources
News "You could, for example, attempt to monopolise Iron Slabs by hiring all Merchants on routes that export them."
