Latest articles by Rick Lane
Elder Scrolls voice actor Wes Johnson shares message of thanks after waking from coma to $175K GoFundMe: 'I love you all. I'm not going anywhere'
news "I found out there's a lot of love in this world that I didn't know was out there."
Firaxis celebrates Civilization 7's launch with the Civ World Summit, a live streamed five-way strategy showdown with 'an exciting announcement' planned
News Airs February 8.
Hyper Light Breaker gets a community-driven update that makes 'some pretty big changes' to the game's enemies and medkit system, following its debut to mixed reviews on Steam
News Further updates and an early access roadmap coming soon.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director says 'I respect the modding community' and uses mods himself, though he still thinks we shouldn't use ones that 'detract from the intended game experience'
News Mods cons.
The Video Game History Foundation launches its digital library later this month, providing access to over 1,500 videogame magazines and 'never-before-seen game development materials'
News Back issues.
The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced a Her Story-like game where you hack into Lady MacBeth's computer
News Out damned Spotify.
Celeste developer starts 2025 with a 'huge, heartbreaking, and yet relieving failure' as creative difficulties and internal conflict lead to the cancellation of Earthblade
News "We gave it all we got, and life goes on".
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Season 2 will let players battle on boats and bullet-trains, with the Terminator entering the fray 'shortly after launch'
News Excellent.
'That's why they call me the Elden Ring sicko' proclaims streamer as he beats FromSoft's RPG at NG+1000 without taking a single hit
News Skumnut's run is "first in the world" and "probably the last" of its kind.
The best GTA 5 mods
New and updated! Our favourite tweaks include forests in San Andreas and more than 50 new heists.
Baldur's Gate 3's shows off its upcoming photo mode by going haywire with memes
News "We've also reminded Minthara that 'knocked out' does not mean 'dead'."
Bethesda intended Starfield to be more violent, including 'meat caps' for beheaded astronauts, but the gore was toned down for technical reasons and because it 'didn't fit thematically'
News "It turned into a big Rat's Nest."
Total Chaos, the full-fat remake of one of Doom's best mods, is a getting a demo 'very shortly'
News The FPS overhaul will introduce "completely new" areas.
The worst Tomb Raider game is getting cut weapons, areas and voice lines restored as part of its upcoming remaster
News But will the changes make The Angel of Darkness any better?
Crysis director says it was so hard to run it became a meme because its highest settings were meant for future PCs: 'I wanted to make sure Crysis does not age'
news "A lot of people tried to maximise Crysis immediately, and I'm like, 'Oh, that's not why we built the Ultra mode, or Very High.'"
Climbing a lighthouse that was determined to kill me in Peaks of Yore was genuinely revelatory—now I understand mountaineers
Belayed gratification Next stop, Everest.
Sons of the Forest's first patch in 6 months is a doozy, adding buildable rafts, a procedural wall system, and fixing more than 100 bugs
News Also improves weapon aiming and warms up the hell cave.
Galaxy-brained high schooler ports Doom to a PDF file, paving the way for a bloody revolution in invoicing
News A true Adobe acrobat.
Wartorn is a top-down fantasy tactics game co-created by BioShock's lead designer, inspired by a forgotten Bungie title where you command dwarves to blow up zombies
News Battle fantasy monsters with elemental powers in this spiritual successor to Myth: The Fallen Lords.
Cruel is a frantic run-and-gun shooter where you boot cultists out of windows in a cursed apartment block that wants you dead
News Who do you want to kill?
Valve's Steam page currently lists a second mystery game alongside Deadlock, sending Half-Life 3 theorists into another frenzy of speculation
News But before you get too excited, it could just be gift cards.
CD Projekt Red boss says 'around 100' Witcher 3 designers still work at the company, while the Witcher 4's story director is 'the same person since Witcher 1'
News The main story director is also 'the same person since Witcher 1'.
My Summer Car, the absurdly detailed Finnish life sim about vehicle maintenance and drinking in your underpants, smashes into 1.0 after nearly a decade in Steam early access
News Devs also confirm sequel is in "active development".
