Latest articles by Rick Lane
Promising RTS Dinolords, which is basically Age of Empires with dinosaurs, is getting a closed alpha playtest that you can join later this month
News Ever wanted to play as a Viking riding a velociraptor? Now's your chance.
Kick ass and chew brains in Duke Nukem: Horror Castle, a spooky mod where you blast skeletons and chow down on the gooey insides of their skulls
News The latest version gives the mod a Hallowe'en makeover.
Strategy roguelike 9 Kings finally has 9 kings, though a new perk lets you revert it to 8 kings if nine kings proves too many
Crowning achievement.
A new ToeJam and Earl is 'in the planning stage' according to its co-creator, but don't expect to see it anytime soon: 'We intend to make it happen'
News The new entry will be "a combination of games one and two".
The bold and futile attempt to fix the disastrous Aliens: Colonial Marines
Alien Resurrection? Can a mod fix this infamously terrible Gearbox shooter?
Prepare to have your brain fried by this electric shoot 'em up from an ex-Housemarque designer when it launches next month
News Sektori's demo blew me away when I played it last year.
You'll need to be careful moving around the forests of Hell Let Loose: Vietnam, as its trees will help players identify potential threats: 'It can be very hard to understand where you're dying from'
News Tree of death.
A sequel to Aliens: Fireteam Elite is almost certainly in development, having briefly burst onto the ESRB's website
News Developer Cold Iron Studios has previously stated it is developing a game that builds "on the success of Aliens: Fireteam Elite".
Renegade graphics warlock makes Half-Life look like Half-Life 2, then runs it on an ancient laptop, raising a middle finger to poorly optimised PC games
News Phong Song.
The Outer Worlds 2: All the key details on Obsidian’s sci-fi sequel
Moon shots Knowledge, such a fickle concept.
Titan Quest 2's second chapter transports you to The Northern Beaches, where you'll find 9 new dungeons and 3 more bosses to batter
News Chapter Two "concludes your fight against the Ichthian threat".
Rust developer is fed up with survivors cowering in their homes, so it's reworking progression to 'get players back out of their bases'
News "We don't believe this has been overwhelmingly negative, but it has detracted from world PvP."
Manor Lords gets its first update since January, and its creator says he is 'rethinking what went wrong to ensure it won't happen again'
News "I focussed on expanding the team and tackled way too many issues at once".
The creator of Voxel Doom has spent the last three years making Voxel Duke Nukem 3D, and it's almost ready to rock
News Dan Peterson's latest FPS makeover features 'nearly a thousand voxels'.
Inside the astonishing development of 1999's The Wheel of Time FPS: 'The fact that we shipped anything at all is kind of a miracle'
The Path of Daggers "I never played my games after they were done, but this one I played forever because it was so fun."
After a decade in development, this massive Skyrim mod adds a whole new region, 50 new dungeons and 'the biggest main quest you've ever played in Skyrim'
News Lordbound is finally here.
Chill city-builder Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles just got a massive update that adds an 'OP AF' new airship, as the developer urges players to check out his game: 'Any review helps, even the critical ones'
News Also adds a subterfuge system and a whole lotta trees.
Fight like a Witcher in Elden Ring thanks to this ingenious moveset mod
News Witcher—Moveset Mod adds sword techniques and Aard signs from CD Projekt's masterful RPGs.
Civilization 7's latest update brings improved map generation, a better UI, and a 'full rework of Napoleon', but it hasn't moved the needle on its divided Steam rating
News French Correction.
Bully 2 never happened due to 'bandwidth issues' according to Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser: 'You just can't do all the projects you want'
News Bully? Pulp it.
Stario: Haven Tower is yet another vertical city-builder, but this one has magic, space whales and flying delivery turtles
News Out now in early access.
'Overwhelmingly positive' rover-building sim Mars First Logistics rolls out of early access with a new automation system and a 40% discount
News Assemble robots and build transport networks in this delightful blend of construction and puzzling.
Senior Treyarch developer says he'd be 'dead lying' if he claimed not to be worried about series fatigue with Call of Duty: Black Ops 7
News "We'll see what the franchise does in the future."
