Latest articles by Rick Lane
Victoria 3 is playable for free this weekend, and on a 70% discount until Thursday
News Play Paradox's Victorian grand strategy gratis, then grab the full game cheap if you like it.
Almost a year after launch, Frost Giant's StarCraft wannabe has finally added the feature it's named after: 'We called the game Stormgate, yet we didn't actually have any stormgates'
News "Long-requested" feature arrives to shake up the troubled RTS.
Total War: Warhammer 3's latest patch radically reattunes its magic item system: 'In total some 600 ancillaries have had their effects and rarity adjusted'
News Also adds new units and campaign AI options.
Tempest Rising's first major update targets the Command and Conquer successor's multiplayer, adding 6 maps, a 2v2 ranked mode, and an extensive balance overhaul
News Rally & Recon update available now.
That 16-bit Terminator 2 throwback doesn't feature Arnie's likeness, but it did license the guy who played adult John Connor for 30 seconds in the film's intro
News Facing judgement.
No More Room in Hell 2's latest update transforms its zombie horror from a cooperative game to a solo extraction shooter when enough players die
News 'Early individual extraction' lets you choose to abandon your teammates when the rotting flesh hits the fan.
FBC: Firebreak review – Delightfully silly, but hindered by balancing issues and limited replay value
Uncontrolled A big old mess. Mainly by design, partly by mistake.
Hardcore World War 2 shooter Hell Let Loose is free to play all weekend, and on a 50% discount for the next two weeks
News Team17's Battlefield aspirant will let you sign up for free until Monday.
I was surprised and delighted to learn that every FromSoft protagonist outside of Elden Ring Nightreign is 5 feet 7 inches tall, aka the best height for cool people
News Height mapping.
Still Wakes the Deep is getting an expansion where you investigate the events of the base game ten years later, and it's out next week
News Siren's Rest will lure you in on Wednesday.
Less than a week from launch, FBC: Firebreak has broken out its roadmap, with two new updates coming this year adding new levels, enemies and even systems
News Remedy's cooperative shooter releases on Tuesday.
This massive mod for Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord not only converts it to Sengoku-era Japan, it adds fully simulated naval battles months ahead of the base game
News Shokuho is available to download now.
Two Point Museum's latest update adds memorial exhibits for staff who vanish on expeditions, which you can put on display or sell for cold, hard profit
News The 3.0 update also adds new decorative posters and backpacks for burglars.
Satisfactory's biggest patch since launch makes it friendlier for Steam Deck players: 'It's no exaggeration to say this update includes more than a year's worth of work'
News The 1.1 update also expands conveyor belt modularity, tidies up your pipework, adds a personnel elevator and overhauls photo mode.
The Outer Worlds 2: All the key details on Obsidian’s sci-fi sequel
Moon shots Knowledge, such a fickle concept.
Bus Bound aims to be more than your standard public transport sim, it lets you use your sick bussing skills to change the city around you
PCGS 2025 Life coach.
Nidhogg creator's open-world cycling sim Wheel World lets you ride a hotdog around a Moebius-coded Night City, and it pedals onto Steam next month
PCGS 2025 As confirmed during the PC Gaming Show 2025: it's wheelie big.
Craft magical meals to feed fantasy hordes in card-based cooking sim Arcane Eats
PCGS 2025 Monster munch.
DarkSwitch is a fantasy city-builder where you construct a metropolis around a massive tree, but watch out for the fog that drives citizens mad
PCGS 2025 It's great to see the genre branching out.
Generation Exile, a turn-based city builder about managing a generation ship, releases a demo tomorrow—but it already has the best narrative choice of any game this year
PCGS 2025 Generation Exile's demo is available until June 16.
Kaizen: A Factory Story, the Japanese production line sim from the creators of SpaceChem, gets a demo later this month and a full release in July
PCGS 2025 Expect it to be well optimised.
EVE Frontier, CCP's survival MMO about rebuilding civilization among the ruins of a spacefaring empire, is getting a big update and moving into public alpha
PCGS 2025 The Frontier expands on June 11.
Hyper Games is back with another cozy Moomin adventure, and this time Moomintroll is the main character
PCGS 2025 Snuggle up with Moomintroll: Winter's Warmth next year.
