Latest articles by Rick Lane
After 16 years, The Dark Mod finally has guards as perceptive as in Thief: 'The days of seeing knocked-out AI in the middle of a bright spotlight get ignored are over'
News "A solution evaded us for years."
Quell your fears, Ultramarines! Just because Space Marine 3 is happening doesn't mean the end of support for Space Marine 2: 'There are surprises even dataminers haven’t found out about'
News "No one is abandoning the game."
'We want to increase the cost of silence': Hunt: Showdown 1896's latest update brings a new event, a massive list of bugfixes and a tougher challenge for stealthy players
News Quiet play has been 'undervalued' in the past.
Publishers 'don't want to be anywhere near' Grand Theft Auto 6 when it launches: 'It's proving to be very stressful'
News "Will we have to push our game up, or will we have to delay further?"
'Ok, so dragon builds are a thing now': galaxy-brained Helldivers 2 player incinerates a bile titan with a hover pack and a flamethrower
News Free fire.
'We're actually getting GeoGuessr on Steam before GTA 6': the Google Street View puzzler arrives on Valve's platform this April
News The Steam edition focuses on the competitive Duels mode.
Here's that Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 mod that turns everyone into skeletons you asked for
News "Here's a mod that can be both funny and scary."
Forget REPO, Monster Hunter Wilds and Assassin's Creed Shadows, Steam's current global top seller is an early access game about managing a drug empire
News "This game is everything I want in a good 'build your own empire' game."
Tony Hawk apparently intervened to get Bam Margera into Pro Skater 3+4: 'No, you're gonna do it'
News The skater and former Jackass star was seemingly omitted from the remake's roster.
Steel Hunters is like a more tactical Titanfall, but as an extraction shooter it's undermined by boring loot
Steel yourself Wargaming's latest free-to-play shooter has some exciting tactical potential, but its loot game is too lightweight.
'Never thought I'd go back': Helldivers 2 players steel themselves to return to the site of its most infamous battle, Malevelon Creek
News "They better make Malevelon live up to its name."
Medieval colony sim Norland is getting a 'damn big update' that completely overhauls the game's mechanics: 'We're rolling out some radical changes to the core gameplay'
News Colony migration.
Eagle-eyed streamer spots that Roberta Williams' portrait in King's Quest 4 is based on her author photo on the back of the game box: 'I never noticed it before.'
News "P.S. We really gotta bring back game devs telling you to get better at the game when you die".
'You’ve been asking, and we’ve been listening': Myst remake adds a whole new world to the classic adventure, one originally introduced in another overhaul from 25 years ago
News Rime and reason.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard gets a crumb of support as EA offers free weapon skins to coincide with a 50% discount
News All Dragon Age games available for cheap until March 27.
I downloaded this bear-obsessed comedy FPS to kill time before Doom: The Dark Ages and discovered the most underrated shooter on Steam
Right to bear arms Bears in Space offers far more than cosmic ursine adventures.
Former Age of Empires 2 dev claims Microsoft demanded its first expansion should have a Korean faction, because 'StarCraft sold 3 million copies in Korea'
News "Once someone simply repeats a previous argument, it's clear they are no longer functioning from logic or intelligence."
Chaotic courier sim Deliver At All Costs will crash through your letterbox this May, and its latest trailer is even weirder than I expected
News Strap yourselves in for May 22.
A bizarre mod that adds human poop to Skyrim led me on an enlightening journey into Viking sanitation: 'Your world will certainly be more immersive, but it will also certainly smell worse'
News Everyone Poops—Mihail's Shards of Immersion adds droppings for humans, falmer, and giants.
This upcoming Korean tactical shooter features 'situational awareness AI' that reminds me of the uber-smart clones from Monolith's FEAR
News "In Project TH, the AI system is designed to actively utilize environmental structures to apply continuous pressure on the player."
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 sold 5 times more than the original in its first month
News That number is US sales, but it suggests Warhorse's purse is overflowing with groschen.
Palworld's Crossplay Update does far more than let you play with console buddies, adding photo mode, a drafting table and 'dimensional Pal Storage'
News Palmaxxing.
After launching as an Epic Store exclusive, World of Goo 2 dribbles onto Steam this spring: 'We’re grateful to Epic for funding development of the game'
News The Steam version will arrive with achievements and "other updates".
