Latest articles by Rick Lane
This chocolate factory-building game asks the question 'What if Willy Wonka had a gun?'
News Chocolate Factory lets you build confectionary assembly lines and shoot gingerbread men in the face.
Helldivers 2's Polar Patriots Warbond gets an icy reception, as over 70% of 21,000 Discord voters declare they'd prefer more patches or simply don't like it
News Cold shoulder.
ZeniMax files a trademark for a Doom cheat code that unlocks everything, raising hopes of a new entry in the series
News Xbox's 2024 showcase is in June.
Square Enix to 'aggressively pursue' a new multiplatform business strategy 'designed to win over PC users'
News New plan will also include a shift from "quantity to quality".
Former Helldivers 2 writer is astonished by the monster he helped create, as he describes how the game's approach to storytelling led to the community's showdown with Sony: 'We trained them to fight together. And then they fought together'
News "It was built from the beginning to have the players involved."
Helldivers 2 director says new de-listings are an 'administrative error correction' by Valve on Sony's orders, but 'we still want the game to be available everywhere'
News Communication breakdown.
It sure looks like The Talos Principle 2 is about to get an expansion
News Teaser videos and cryptic tweets hint at something new on the horizon.
Dota 2's Pudge becomes the MOBA's first character to be played in over a billion matches
News Pudge gets a nudge, likely won't budge.
As Helldivers 2's Steam reviews begin to recover, Arrowhead's CEO shares an 'accidental' cape design based upon its Overwhelmingly Negative rating, and of course the community wants it added to the game
News "Do it Pilestedt, it would be a genius play!"
NetherRealm gives us a proper look at Homelander in Mortal Kombat 1's latest DLC trailer, and somehow the fatalities aren't the grossest thing in it
News Milking it.
The best GTA 5 mods
New and updated! Our favourite tweaks include forests in San Andreas and more than 50 new heists.
Valheim's 'most challenging biome yet' is now available for public testing
News Ashlands introduces a smoldering new area, weapons, creatures, buildable items, crafting materials, and more.
Chart-topping city-builder Manor Lords hits 3 million wishlists four days before launch
News Early birthday peasant.
Doom played in space by satellite computer 'ten times more powerful than any current ESA spacecraft'
News Computer Station.
Embracer Group embraces its new future as three separate companies including 'Middle-earth and Friends', which its CEO says 'reinforces Embracer's vision of backing entrepreneurs and creators with a long-term mindset'
News Making friends.
Prison Architect 2's release delayed due to 'new technical challenges', has its sentence extended until September
News Parole denied.
Team Fortress 2 joins us in the modern age as Valve updates the 17 year old shooter to 64-bit
News Should result in performance improvements for "most users".
Dragon's Dogma 2's getting an update which nerfs dragonsplague, stops Pawns incessantly yapping, and makes them 'less likely to fall off cliffs'
News Changes will arrive later this month.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 isn't just bigger, it's more diverse, with Warhorse adding a 'wide range of ethnicities and different characters'
News The studio is also working with a "group of experts from different ethnicities or religious beliefs".
Instead of making Baldur's Gate 4, Larian is working on 2 new projects based on its own IPs, and CEO Swen Vincke reckons it'll result in the studio's 'best work ever'
News "I get excited like a kid watching the key imagery."
Descent 3 programmer releases the classic space shooter's source code, including a surprise patch developed 15 years ago but never released
News Infinite degrees of freedom.
One of Steam's best-reviewed games gets a surprise open world sequel, and it's a plunder-em-up built around rickety pirate robots
News SteamWorld Heist 2 will ricochet onto Steam on August 8.
Broken Roads review: A cerebral narrative adventure trapped in an unsatisfying RPG
Loose morals Descartes before the horse.
