Latest articles by Rick Lane
Hellscreen, the FPS with a rear-view mirror, has left Steam early access two episodes short of its original plan: 'This is a bittersweet experience for me'
News The Doom-like shooter was unable to realise its final form due to "budget reasons."
Seafaring survival sim The Last Caretaker gets a big update that adds a speedy jet ski and lets you customise your base-boat
News Also adds new quests, locations and a sonar module.
Unreal Tournament 2004 is now available for free thanks to its fan community, and they've even updated the game for modern PCs: 'This is the first public patch for Unreal Tournament 2004 in over 20 years'
News Wicked sick.
Inside PC gaming's wildly creative Tomb Raider mapping scene: 'Being able to create my own adventures for other people to play is such an addicting concept'
Tomb Maker Tomb Raider has a fan-level scene as storied as Quake or Thief.
Underrated hack 'n' slash Blades of Fire heads to Steam with a 2.0 update, bringing new game plus and 'expanded death and mutilation variations' for you sickos out there
News It's me. I'm the sicko.
THQ's Gothic 1 remake arrives in June, and I think it might prove a more valuable overhaul than Oblivion Remastered
News The great grandaddy of eurojank looks spiffing in its latest trailer.
Bloodlines 2's Valentine's patch adds further customisation options and lootable blood bags, because nothing says 'I love you' like the vampire equivalent of a ready meal
News Love bite.
Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition gets a massive update introducing Steam Workshop support, 10 new maps, and a 10-mission cooperative campaign
News Winter is coming.
You've had Skate Story, now get ready for Skate Style, a 'next-gen skateboarding game' that lets you customise your character's animations
News Demo available now.
Terraria's biggest mod manager will require months before it's fully compatible with the 1.4.5 patch: 'Updating tModLoader to major Terraria releases is a huge undertaking'
News "We ask players to be patient."
Timberborn gets a 1.0 release date and new 'lore trailer' showing some very thirsty beavers
Mechanistry's city-builder leaves early access in March.
219 hours of XCOM 2 and 20 minutes of Fallout: Size Five Games' director Dan Marshall takes us through the games on his PC
Disk Cleanup The co-creator of the Swindle, Lair of the Clockwork God and Earth Must Die gives us the lowdown on his gaming tastes.
If you thought Untitled Goose Game had a horrible goose, wait until you play this powerfully unsettling idle clicker where humans give birth to waterfowl
Fowl play Playing Tingus Goose makes me feel dirty, and I kinda like it.
XCOM 2 is 10 years old, and 2K is celebrating with a free weekend and a 95% discount on Firaxis' masterful sequel
News Try one of the best games ever for nothing, then grab it for less than the price of a coffee.
Rust player says goodbye to his server neighbours by constructing a giant, illuminated middle finger: 'Making one of these is often how I like to end a successful wipe'
News "Making one of these is often how I like to end a successful wipe."
Get 7 incredible FPS games including Prey, Doom Eternal and Black Mesa for $20 in Humble's sci-fi shooter bundle
News Space, the final gun tier.
Prince of Persia's creator reacts to Ubisoft's cancellation of The Sands of Time remake: 'Having a project killed is a brutal experience'
News "It's an aspect of the game industry that the public doesn't often see, but developers are all too familiar with."
Get the complete editions of Civilization 4, 5 and 6 plus a bunch more games for $15 in Humble Bundle's The Sid Meier Collection
News That's enough Civilization to last the remainder of civilisation.
Thirty years after launch, this classic space combat sim just got updated to work on modern systems and released for free
News Grab Star Quest 1 in the 27th Century on Itch now.
Over a decade since launch, this cooperative dungeon crawler is getting a double-barrelled update that overhauls its magic system, dungeon generation, and much more
News And it's 50% off for the next two weeks.
Cities: Skylines 2's new developer breaks cover on its plans for the sequel's future, revealing a patch that will include changes players 'have been requesting for a long time'
News Better snow effects and a "streamlined" UI are coming to the sequel soon.
The best Elder Scrolls game that isn't an Elder Scrolls game is getting a big patch in February and free DLC in March
News And there's a small patch out right now.
In a beautifully ironic twist, a YouTuber attempting a pacifist run of Bully discovered a secret weapon hidden for almost 20 years: 'I can see why they tried to lock it inside a building'
News Norton's sledgehammer is finally yours to wield.
