Latest articles by Rick Lane
Assassin’s Creed Shadows takes a run at improving parkour, as Ubisoft strives to make the system less 'like a gas pedal'
News New free-running abilities include ledge-flips, sprint-dodges, and grappling-hook wall-runs.
Crytek went so overboard on the Crysis tech it created a whole blushing system, implemented nose shadows, and sent devs to photograph leaves in Haiti to get the translucency right: 'We went over bonkers on this one'
News "The shader work that came out of this was mind-blowing at times."
Crysis' magical Nanosuit was so convincing that a nanotech conference asked Crytek's boss to give a keynote speech: 'I said, excuse me, but this is all fake'
News Crysis 2 and 3, however, are documentaries.
DoubleWe blends Guess Who with Hitman, and its demo is one of the best I've played in ages
Attack of the clones Kill your clone before they kill you in this thrilling social stealth sim.
The Outer Worlds 2: Everything we know about Obsidian’s sci-fi sequel
Moon shots Knowledge, such a fickle concept.
Planet Coaster 2 review: Not the deepest management sim, but its powerful creation tools and newly added water attractions make a satisfying splash
Flume Eternal It really is better where it’s wetter.
Factorio: Space Age review: Blowing out the game's scale and reinventing its factory systems multiple times over, this is an immediate contender for the best expansion ever made
Galaxy brained With interplanetary logistics and four imaginative new ways to build factories, expansion Space Age reaffirms Factorio’s position as the greatest game in the genre it spawned.
Starship Troopers: Extermination review: Buggy, baggy, badly optimised, and occasionally bloody brilliant
Roughneck Would you like to know more?
Dragon Age: The Veilguard drops a 10-minute combat deep dive video, and it might just have sold me on giving BioWare's latest RPG a whirl
News Impale hard.
Descending is a free Iron Lung-style horror game where you drill a giant borehole for the glory of your country
News Deep cut.
Valve developer shares video of an even earlier version of Deadlock, in which the player battles Half-Life 2 enemies with Left 4 Dead weapons
News Dead early.
Gloomwood, aka Thief with guns, is getting cutscenes 'done in an early 1900s animated horror style' to introduce major areas and encounters
News Fade to black.
After Borderlands comes crawling back to Steam, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford responds to people mocking his old predictions about Steam being killed off by the Epic Store: 'Epic is not pressing their advantage'
News "I’m a Steam customer, but sure wish they had more and better competition."
Steam just updated its reviews system to show when a user has 'played primarily on Steam Deck'
News "Keep an eye out for the Deck icon".
Bungie's pre-Halo FPS Classic Marathon Infinity just launched on Steam for free, meaning you can now play the entire Marathon trilogy for the low price of nothing
News Marathon gaming session ahead.
Asked about SAG-AFTRA's strike for better AI protections, Amazon Games Boss claims AI 'has nothing to do with taking work away' from actors because 'for games, we don't really have acting'
News Acting out.
Terrifyingly good Humble Bundle deal nets you 11 Resident Evil games for less than the price of Resi 4 remake
News Wallet hazard.
Laid-back puzzler Wilmot's Warehouse is getting a sequel, in which Wilmot ditches his job to do jigsaw puzzles at home
News Wilmot Works It Out launches in October.
Bohemia Interactive reveals a Minecraft competitor and a horse-themed comedy platformer, but remains silent on the status of Arma 4
News Pilot an airship in Skyverse and ride a weird horse in Brute Horse.
The creators of Blasphemous are making a real-time tactics game about escaping from a haunted Spanish monastery
News The Stone of Madness launches next year
Hunt: Showdown enjoys highest-ever player count after 1896 update, but player complaints about UI are pushing down its Steam review score: 'I've never seen such a bizarre reaction to so much amazing content'
News Off menu.
Deliriously funny rhythm tooter Trombone Champ is getting a VR version
News Trombone Champ: Unflattened arrives this autumn.
Lonely Mountains: Downhill is getting a skiing-themed sequel, making it the second winter sports game announced this month
News Descending later this year.
