Latest articles by Rick Lane
Crysis director says it was so hard to run it became a meme because its highest settings were meant for future PCs: 'I wanted to make sure Crysis does not age'
news "A lot of people tried to maximise Crysis immediately, and I'm like, 'Oh, that's not why we built the Ultra mode, or Very High.'"
Climbing a lighthouse that was determined to kill me in Peaks of Yore was genuinely revelatory—now I understand mountaineers
Belayed gratification Next stop, Everest.
Sons of the Forest's first patch in 6 months is a doozy, adding buildable rafts, a procedural wall system, and fixing more than 100 bugs
News Also improves weapon aiming and warms up the hell cave.
Galaxy-brained high schooler ports Doom to a PDF file, paving the way for a bloody revolution in invoicing
News A true Adobe acrobat.
Wartorn is a top-down fantasy tactics game co-created by BioShock's lead designer, inspired by a forgotten Bungie title where you command dwarves to blow up zombies
News Battle fantasy monsters with elemental powers in this spiritual successor to Myth: The Fallen Lords.
Cruel is a frantic run-and-gun shooter where you boot cultists out of windows in a cursed apartment block that wants you dead
News Who do you want to kill?
Valve's Steam page currently lists a second mystery game alongside Deadlock, sending Half-Life 3 theorists into another frenzy of speculation
News But before you get too excited, it could just be gift cards.
CD Projekt Red boss says 'around 100' Witcher 3 designers still work at the company, while the Witcher 4's story director is 'the same person since Witcher 1'
News The main story director is also 'the same person since Witcher 1'.
My Summer Car, the absurdly detailed Finnish life sim about vehicle maintenance and drinking in your underpants, smashes into 1.0 after nearly a decade in Steam early access
News Devs also confirm sequel is in "active development".
Wormhole is an impeccable arcade revival of Snake that plays like it fell off the back of Derek Yu's van
UFO 51 The original mobile game gets the roguelike treatment.
The Junji Ito collection brings eight new outfits to Dead by Daylight, letting you dress up its killers as cannibalistic supermodels and nail-toothed children
News Includes outfits from Tomie, and Marionette Mansion (but not Uzumaki).
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.
