Latest articles by Rick Lane
Ugh! Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has a body-odour 'broadcasting' system where your stink can alert nearby NPCs
News Reeky bastards should think twice about stealth attacks.
Need for Speed is effectively on hold while Criterion musters entirely around Battlefield, but EA assures players the racer will return in 'new and interesting ways'
News Emergency stop.
Killing Floor 3 splatters onto PC on March 25, but you can get your hands dirty a month early via its closed beta
News Testing begins on February 20.
Exographer is a physics-based platformer with a difference—it's made by an actual particle physicist
Quark of fate Discover the fate of an alien civilisation by using tools and methods couched in actual scientific processes.
Besiege celebrates a decade of building deadly contraptions with a reworked sandbox mode, adjusted level designs and slow-motion explosions
News More updates are coming "throughout this year".
Palworld developer 'blown away' by the response to its new publishing arm, which has received 150 game pitches just one week after opening
News "We're determined to help as many great games get made as possible."
Civilization 7's post-launch roadmap will bring the Bermuda Triangle and Mount Everest to all players in March
News While paid DLC adds Ada Lovelace and Simon Bolivar.
I didn't think Factorio needed swarms of robot ants, but the trailer for this upcoming factory sim has convinced me it missed a trick
News Build and program a synthetic ant colony in Microtopia.
Snowrunner follow-up RoadCraft shows off its roadbuilding and logistics automation in a new trailer, and I'm already in love with its mobile quarry
News The cleanup begins on May 20.
Split Fiction's latest trailer shows off its side-stories, which let you fly through space and ride giant desert fish in worlds 'completely different' from the main adventure
News Off the page.
Nightdive's remaster of Doom + Doom 2 gets multiplayer mod support, spectator mode for co-op play, and stops you from losing your mind searching for red doors
News Play with your mates as we wait for Doom: The Dark Ages.
Elder Scrolls voice actor Wes Johnson shares message of thanks after waking from coma to $175K GoFundMe: 'I love you all. I'm not going anywhere'
news "I found out there's a lot of love in this world that I didn't know was out there."
Firaxis celebrates Civilization 7's launch with the Civ World Summit, a live streamed five-way strategy showdown with 'an exciting announcement' planned
News Airs February 8.
Hyper Light Breaker gets a community-driven update that makes 'some pretty big changes' to the game's enemies and medkit system, following its debut to mixed reviews on Steam
News Further updates and an early access roadmap coming soon.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director says 'I respect the modding community' and uses mods himself, though he still thinks we shouldn't use ones that 'detract from the intended game experience'
News Mods cons.
The Video Game History Foundation launches its digital library later this month, providing access to over 1,500 videogame magazines and 'never-before-seen game development materials'
News Back issues.
The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced a Her Story-like game where you hack into Lady MacBeth's computer
News Out damned Spotify.
Celeste developer starts 2025 with a 'huge, heartbreaking, and yet relieving failure' as creative difficulties and internal conflict lead to the cancellation of Earthblade
News "We gave it all we got, and life goes on".
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Season 2 will let players battle on boats and bullet-trains, with the Terminator entering the fray 'shortly after launch'
News Excellent.
'That's why they call me the Elden Ring sicko' proclaims streamer as he beats FromSoft's RPG at NG+1000 without taking a single hit
News Skumnut's run is "first in the world" and "probably the last" of its kind.
The best GTA 5 mods
New and updated! Our favourite tweaks include forests in San Andreas and more than 50 new heists.
Baldur's Gate 3's shows off its upcoming photo mode by going haywire with memes
News "We've also reminded Minthara that 'knocked out' does not mean 'dead'."
Bethesda intended Starfield to be more violent, including 'meat caps' for beheaded astronauts, but the gore was toned down for technical reasons and because it 'didn't fit thematically'
News "It turned into a big Rat's Nest."
