Latest articles by Rick Lane
How a trio of Canadian modders stumbled into making an official Die Hard game: 'I've had projects disappear that had 10 times the promise that this did'
Hard lessons The strange origin of MechWarrior steward Piranha Games.
Europa Universalis 5's 'biggest update yet' expands the Balkans, overhauls the economy, and fixes more than 2,000 bugs
News The Encinades update also reworks orthodoxy and improves military systems.
Abiotic Factor just got another massive update that adds better pets, a ludicrously involved chemistry system, and most importantly, a mop for cleaning up all your failed experiments
News Cosmic Companions is live now.
This very normal Half-Life mod lets you play as 'queen of spacetime' Max Caulfield, and it's convinced me that the next Life is Strange should be a full-on boomer shooter
News Half-Life is Strange adds rewind powers and teen angst into Valve's FPS.
Conan Exiles whips out a massive Unreal Engine 5 upgrade that includes an 'enhanced endowment slider' to further improve player penises
News Biggus Clickus.
Arrowhead addresses the Helldivers 2 community as recent Steam reviews slump to Mostly Negative: 'We want to be clearer about what we're working on and what's coming next'
Multi-week campaigns, new vehicles, and more red stratagems are all apparently in the works.
Erik Wolpaw, co-writer of Portal and Portal 2 adores Burnout Paradise and has 1,500 hours in Slay the Spire: 'This is the perfect level of strategy'
Paradise killer "It's the exact, perfect level of decision making and cognitive load for my brain."
Last Flag, the multiplayer shooter from the Imagine Dragons guy, is free to play for every weekend until its first update comes out
News "We wanted to give everyone who hasn't had a chance to check out Last Flag the opportunity to play for free!"
Shapez 2 leaves early access with a new game mode all about building massive factories: 'This isn't just a game is finished release'
News Manufacture mode "addresses one of the biggest feedback points we got during early access".
Bloodlines 2's first DLC arrives next week, and it'll let you wield guns and melee weapons properly, unlike the base game
News The DLC will offer a "new take" on the Brujah clan.
As Enter the Gungeon celebrates its 10th anniversary, its creators have some choice words for the modern roguelike: 'We’re seeing it mutate to the version of itself that popularity obfuscates'
News "So few people are trying to make something that is truly evocative of this experience of playing Rogue".
Menace's first major early access update overhauls its least interesting faction and jettisons its reviled promotion tax system: 'We have done away with it'
News Who doesn't love a rebate?
With Silent Hill 2's source code still MIA, a dedicated fan has decided to restore the game's CGI renders: 'Takayoshi' Sato's work was incredible for its time'
Konami lost the game's original code prior to releasing the HD Collection.
Helldivers 2 is getting a mech-themed Warbond that adds two new exosuits—one of which carries a shield and a flak cannon
News Exo Experts arrives on April 28.
Dave Oshry, CEO of New Blood Interactive, will never uninstall Doom from his PC, and has over 488 hours in Fallout 76: 'It's the best cryptid hunting game'
Riding shotgun The publisher of DUSK, Ultrakill and Gloomwood gives us the lowdown on the games on his PC.
The sequel to flying city-builder Airborne Kingdom just hit 1.0 with a huge update and a 50% discount
News Airborne Empire soars out of Steam early access.
A YouTuber has unearthed Dark Souls 2's enormous cut sewers map, and it's another fascinating insight into the design of FromSoftware's most divisive work
News The area that became The Gutter was far more elaborate in its initial form.
This hugely impressive Minecraft mod lets you build all manner of functioning vehicles, including planes, combine harvesters, and even airships
News Create Aeronautics lets you travel across Minecraft's world in style.
Marathon's most popular shotgun is getting nerfed a second time, as Bungie worries it is 'eclipsing a lot of the other short range options that exist in the game'
News "We're gonna take a shot at bringing the WSTR more in line."
This wildly ambitious total conversion mod for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas lets you explore the setting of 2003's Manhunt
News GTA: Carcer City lets you do crimes in the Rust Belt.
Help! The Millennium Bug made all the robots in my mansion go berserk, and only Homer Simpson can save the day
Bug hunt Is Y2K: The Game a deft exploration of late '90s digital anxiety? No! But is it a fun game anyway? Also no!
After 23 years, CCP is about to do the unthinkable: add a non-PvP zone to EVE Online
News "Getting more new players benefits New Eden as a whole."
Here's that free fan remake of 1999's PlayStation-exclusive Medal of Honor you were looking for
News Medal of Honor Retro Remake blends bespoke game logic with assets from 2002's Allied Assault.
