Rick Lane
Rick has been fascinated by PC gaming since he was seven years old, when he used to sneak into his dad's home office for covert sessions of Doom. He grew up on a diet of similarly unsuitable games, with favourites including Quake, Thief, Half-Life and Deus Ex. Between 2013 and 2022, Rick was games editor of Custom PC magazine and associated website bit-tech.net. But he's always kept one foot in freelance games journalism, writing for publications like Edge, Eurogamer, the Guardian and, naturally, PC Gamer. While he'll play anything that can be controlled with a keyboard and mouse, he has a particular passion for first-person shooters and immersive sims.
Latest articles by Rick Lane

Abiotic Factor's next update will bring a whole new upgrade system and fix attacks on your base: 'We've heard a lot of feedback about base assaults and how they just kinda stink'
By Rick Lane published
News Cold Fusion is coming soon.

How to install GTA 5 mods on PC
By Rick Lane last updated
Five alive Get all GTA V’s mod-cons with this handy guide.

Get up to 85% off some of the PCs weirdest adventure games, all to benefit 'humanitarian relief in Ukraine'
By Rick Lane published
News The Amanita for Ukraine deal runs until April 2.

Blades of Fire just showed off its first five minutes of gameplay, and I think it might be channelling God of War too heavily
By Rick Lane published
News Chaos Blades of Fire.

Vampire survival RPG V Rising gets a big update next month, bringing a new biome, multiplayer duels and the 'biggest combat overhaul yet'
By Rick Lane published
News Invaders of Oakveil lands in late April.

The modder who added seamless coop to Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3 is now doing the same with Dark Souls: Remastered
By Rick Lane published
News Mod is "nearing completion".

I played the 21 worst Thief missions in existence and had a far better time than I expected
By Rick Lane published
On the level Revisiting TTLG's Total Crap competition.

This whimsical adventure game sees you play as a retired Sherlock Holmes whose beekeeping hobby keeps getting interrupted by pesky crimes
By Rick Lane published
News Sell an apiary? My dear Watson!

'Game changing' ArmA Reforger update adds attack helicopters, mortars, and destructible buildings: 'nowhere on the battlefield is safe anymore'
By Rick Lane published
News "Solid cover is now temporary, destruction is everything".

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'
By Rick Lane published
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'
By Rick Lane published
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
By Rick Lane published
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'
By Rick Lane published
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
By Rick Lane published
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
By Rick Lane published
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
By Rick Lane published
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
By Rick Lane published
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'
By Rick Lane published
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
By Rick Lane published
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
By Rick Lane published
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'
By Rick Lane published
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.'
By Rick Lane published
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
By Rick Lane published
News Rime and reason.
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