Latest articles by Rick Lane
BlizzCon 2025 isn't happening, meaning the event will miss its 20th anniversary, but it will return in 2026 to 'meaningfully elevate this iconic celebration'
News It's the second year running Blizzard's event hasn't happened.
Naughty Dog's next game is definitely steering clear of controversy: 'Let's do something that people won't care as much about. Let's make a game about faith and religion'
News Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet will take a deep dive into spirituality.
After REPO 'kinda blew up', its developer asks the community for advice on how to make matchmaking lobbies
News "The issue with an anti-cheat system is that you're ruining the experience for everyone who has made mods."
Limbo and Inside studio demands compensation from co-founder Dino Patti for alleged 'unauthorized use of Playdead's trademarks and copyrighted works'
News Patti claims such demands have "happened repeatedly over the last nine years".
Rust's crafting update gives the survival sim real-time food cooking and pies to rival Monster Hunter, but the tastiest treat is the ability to make and throw 'bee grenades'
News A different kind of buzzkill.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2's director had big plans for a third entry in the series, with your squad reuniting for an impossible mission amid a war between Russia and the US over Alaska
News "I am freaked out by how much might actually have been accurate."
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 celebrates 7 years of rat bashing with a new versus map and double XP for all players, but its hotly anticipated weapon pack 'won't be coming out this year'
News Event runs until March 16.
One of the best city builders of the last decade is currently 90% off on Steam
News Grab Anno 1800 for a fiver.
Company of Heroes 3 is free to try and 50% off, so it's the best time to check out the beefy 2.0 overhaul
News Also 50% off until Thursday.
This brutalist life sim gave me a free tenement block to renovate, but my mushroom addiction kept getting in the way
Slum lord Welcome to Obenseuer, and yes, that does mean "open sewer".
Planet Coaster 2's spring roadmap splashes down, with 'round-bottomed flumes' coming in March and buildable restaurants arriving in April
News But you can't take them home tonight.
Bandai Namco will celebrate Pac-Man's 45th birthday with museum displays, live experiences, and an official cookbook featuring 'a maze of imaginative recipes'
News "Ever wonder what a Ghost or Power Pellet tastes like?"
Microsoft's Civilization 7 competitor escalates tensions with Firaxis' embattled 4X, announcing that nukes are coming with its impending diplomacy update
News Ara: History Untold enters the atomic age.
Blades of Fire is a God of War-style action game coming to PC from the creators of Metroid Dread, and it's almost definitely a spiritual successor to Severance
News Launches May 22.
An $8 cooperative horror game is rocketing up Steam's top sellers list: 'Never occurred to me Lethal Company was missing physics until I played this'
News REPO tasks you with extracting wobbly items from creepy houses.
Total War: Warhammer 3's next patch will overhaul its Kislev faction, which Creative Assembly has 'identified as the most in need of a deep review and rethink'
News Bear necessities.
Tread carefully, Atomfall's world includes 'exploding sheep' that can 'infect you with spores that creep into your lungs'
News They call me Mister bomb-baa-stic.
I'm so desperate to play Grand Theft Auto 6 that I downloaded this unfinished open-world game set in 1990s Slovakia
Jank Theft Auto Make bank in the murky world of post-Soviet Bratislava.
As it unveils its roadmap, Eternal Strands' dev defends the 'slippery' feeling of its physics-based player character, saying it 'can't be as snappy or reactive as it is in games that rely on animation'
News "Much of how it feels is intended and attributable to how a 100% physics-based sandbox game like Eternal Strands is designed to work."
One of the best Return to Castle Wolfenstein mods just got an update that turns the WW2 FPS into a Killing Floor-style wave shooter
News Take on hordes of enemies in Gray Matter's 2001 gunfest.
Shockingly, nobody bought the $386,000 special edition of Dying Light that came with parkour lessons and a full-size custom zombie survival shelter
News "Nobody purchased it—thankfully, I guess!"
Japanese boffins invent the 'world's smallest shooting game' by using an electron beam to blast particles one billionth of a metre in size
News First-particle shooter.
The Dark Souls 3 seamless co-op mod is here, letting you further hone your teamwork skills before Elden Ring Nightreign launches
News The mod is available now, albeit "in an alpha state".
