Latest articles by Rick Lane
Gloomwood's Christmas update invites you to step into the Mirror Realm
News You'd better watch out.
Anthem sold 5 million copies, which sounds good until you compare it to Star Wars: Battlefront
News The LinkedIn profile of a former EA marketing manager reveals sales figures of some of the company's biggest games.
Baldur's Gate 3's latest hotfix stops character faces "turning into stretched eldritch horrors with pits of flesh in place of eyes"
News Baldur's Gape.
Game receives huge free update following 10th anniversary and instantly quintuples its previous player-count high
News Geometry Dash's latest additions have seen the game's popularity skyrocket.
At last, Shrek has come to Minecraft, but only for the next few days
News Visit the famously sociable ogre in his swamp via the Universal Studios Live event.
Microsoft Flight Simulator adds a bunch of European cities, letting you grab Zagreb and try The Hague
News City, slicker.
Get Larian's brilliant precursor to Baldur's Gate 3 for £9 on GOG
News Divinity: Original Sin 2: Definitive Edition is 70% off through the holidays.
Bethesda is far from done with Fallout 76, unsurprising given 17 million people have jumped in since the Wastelanders update
News New addons, locations, and more seasonal events coming in 2024.
The Finals might be a bit less sweaty now it's cracking down on cheaters
News Technical issues caused Embark "a ton of headaches" when dealing with dodgy players.
EA rebrands Frostbite with a cuddly new hand as it says its studios are now 'free to develop on any engine they choose'
News Cold logic.
Spider-Man developer Insomniac Games victim of horrendous leak, as hackers steal a decade's worth of plans for the studio's future
News Personal information of employees was also stolen.
Rocksteady urges fans to 'avoid spoilers' as Suicide Squad leaks become a tsunami
News "It is very disappointing to see details being shared ahead of the game's release."
Alan Wake 2 director says Remedy's confidence in the game was boosted by Everything Everywhere All At Once
News Sam Lake says Oscar-winning sci-fi film "gave us confidence".
Baldur's Gate 3's charming devil Raphael now has seven different endings
News "We added a whole bunch more."
Larian CEO says Baldur's Gate 3's Dark Urge character was originally going to be a Paladin by default, which makes me even happier I played it that way
News "But then we started thinking about it and said, actually that's bringing in a lot of narrative problems."
In a year beset by layoffs, Games Workshop just gave its staff a £2,500 end-of-year bonus
News Merry Christmas.
Gangs of Sherwood review: Frivolous and fleeting
Staid Marian Robin and the gang's co-op outing is all too frivolous and fleeting.
Last Train Home's tactical combat missions pit your ragtag Czech soldiers against the might of the Red Army
Use stealth, strategy, and a massive railway gun to get the better of the Bolsheviks.
Guide a steam locomotive through the Russian Civil War in brutal survival strategy Last Train Home
Organise work rotas, dispatch scavenging runs, and evade revolutionary Bolsheviks to keep your soldiers alive.
Dredge publisher says profits will likely be down this year due to certain games 'not meeting internal expectations'
news Team17 says it remains "well positioned" but plans to reevaluate its portfolio, which also included Gord and Blasphemous 2 this year.
David Braben says Frontier Developments has had a 'turbulent and difficult year' as Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin flops
News Company expects to lose £9 million this year.
After Starfield, I thought I was done with large-scale space travel, but Star Citizen's spectacular latest trailer has pulled me right back in
News You had me at "Volumetric clouds at a gas giant scale".
You can buy this forgotten '90s shooter from its original website, which is a perfectly preserved time capsule of PC gaming's golden age
News Bad Toys 3D is available on Tibo Software's website for $9.95.
