Rick Lane
Rick has been fascinated by PC gaming since he was seven years old, when he used to sneak into his dad's home office for covert sessions of Doom. He grew up on a diet of similarly unsuitable games, with favourites including Quake, Thief, Half-Life and Deus Ex. Between 2013 and 2022, Rick was games editor of Custom PC magazine and associated website bit-tech.net. But he's always kept one foot in freelance games journalism, writing for publications like Edge, Eurogamer, the Guardian and, naturally, PC Gamer. While he'll play anything that can be controlled with a keyboard and mouse, he has a particular passion for first-person shooters and immersive sims.
Latest articles by Rick Lane

The Epic Store's latest free games giveaway includes 'over $100' worth of stuff for the Forgotten Realms idle game
By Rick Lane published
News Also includes River City Girls and in-game currency for Arcadeogeddon.

Age of Empires 2's quest to conquer the strategy globe continues unabated as The Three Kingdoms DLC invades ancient China this May
By Rick Lane published
News Five new factions, three new campaigns, and camels wearing trebuchets all coming in the expansion.

Former Skyrim dev announces a vehicular free-running game where you launch a car through a claymation world using mouth-sound explosions, and that's the weirdest thing I've ever had to fit into a headline
By Rick Lane published
News Deedlee Doo! Carkour! barrel-rolls onto Steam in May.

John Romero's brutal megawad Sigil 2 has formally chainsawed its way into Bethesda's Doom + Doom 2 remaster
By Rick Lane published
News Doom's unofficial sixth episode is now considerably more official.

Neil Newbon definitely wants to play Astarion again, and if whatever studio that makes Baldur’s Gate 4 recasts him, he’ll totally ‘hunt them down and gut them like a fish’
By Rick Lane published
News "I hope I get to play him again."

Following massive player fall-off, Amazon's MMO Lost Ark is getting an update to make levelling faster and address a 'known progression pain point'
By Rick Lane published
News "These changes will help make progression more accessible."

Literary masterpiece The Count of Monte Cristo is being adapted as a clicker game about getting educated to escape prison
By Rick Lane published
News Click for freedom.

Days Gone’s upcoming survival arcade mode will introduce endless hordes and ‘exploding freakers’, and I’m beginning to think it might be the best way to play the game
By Rick Lane published
News Horde assault mode aims to turn the open world game into a survival roguelite.

Superb city-builder Against the Storm will round off its roster with a DLC of bats, who 'take pride in enduring what breaks others and cannot stand being favored'
By Rick Lane published
News The DLC will launch alongside a free content update, though both are still "months away."

In 'a bit of an experiment' Rust's latest update makes softcore mode even softer, and some changes may be brought over 'to the vanilla game in future'
By Rick Lane published
News New jungle biome also teased.

Pacific Drive's 'largest ever' update adds endless expeditions to the vehicular survival game, but it's a big change to how saving works that has me pondering a reinstall
By Rick Lane published
News "The main storyline and expeditions routes can be completed in parallel, so you’ll benefit from progress in either!"

Dishonored and Prey's director says 'I could see myself working on Dishonored 3 right now' but the chances of that happening is in the realms of 'science fiction'
By Rick Lane published
News "I had a document about Dishonored 3."

'Sweet Liberty, the automatons are invading Minecraft!' Helldivers 2 player commemorates the game's most famous battle by recreating it in Mojang's survival game
By Rick Lane published
News Digging for freedom.

Terra Invicta, the space 4X from the creators of XCOM's Long War mod, just got a massive update that adds exofighters, improved diplomacy, and 'advanced weapons' for its alien menace
By Rick Lane published
News New patch brings "improvements across Earth and space".

After a whopping 13 years in development, the Battle for Middle-earth's Extended Edition mod finally gives the beloved RTS the full Peter Jackson treatment
By Rick Lane published
News "Middle-earth Extended Edition returns".

Abiotic Factor's next update will bring a whole new upgrade system and fix attacks on your base: 'We've heard a lot of feedback about base assaults and how they just kinda stink'
By Rick Lane published
News Cold Fusion is coming soon.

How to install GTA 5 mods on PC
By Rick Lane last updated
Five alive Get all GTA V’s mod-cons with this handy guide.

Get up to 85% off some of the PCs weirdest adventure games, all to benefit 'humanitarian relief in Ukraine'
By Rick Lane published
News The Amanita for Ukraine deal runs until April 2.

Blades of Fire just showed off its first five minutes of gameplay, and I think it might be channelling God of War too heavily
By Rick Lane published
News Chaos Blades of Fire.

Vampire survival RPG V Rising gets a big update next month, bringing a new biome, multiplayer duels and the 'biggest combat overhaul yet'
By Rick Lane published
News Invaders of Oakveil lands in late April.

The modder who added seamless coop to Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3 is now doing the same with Dark Souls: Remastered
By Rick Lane published
News Mod is "nearing completion".

I played the 21 worst Thief missions in existence and had a far better time than I expected
By Rick Lane published
On the level Revisiting TTLG's Total Crap competition.

This whimsical adventure game sees you play as a retired Sherlock Holmes whose beekeeping hobby keeps getting interrupted by pesky crimes
By Rick Lane published
News Sell an apiary? My dear Watson!
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