Latest articles by Rick Lane
Bungie's pre-Halo FPS Classic Marathon Infinity just launched on Steam for free, meaning you can now play the entire Marathon trilogy for the low price of nothing
News Marathon gaming session ahead.
Asked about SAG-AFTRA's strike for better AI protections, Amazon Games Boss claims AI 'has nothing to do with taking work away' from actors because 'for games, we don't really have acting'
News Acting out.
Terrifyingly good Humble Bundle deal nets you 11 Resident Evil games for less than the price of Resi 4 remake
News Wallet hazard.
Laid-back puzzler Wilmot's Warehouse is getting a sequel, in which Wilmot ditches his job to do jigsaw puzzles at home
News Wilmot Works It Out launches in October.
Bohemia Interactive reveals a Minecraft competitor and a horse-themed comedy platformer, but remains silent on the status of Arma 4
News Pilot an airship in Skyverse and ride a weird horse in Brute Horse.
The creators of Blasphemous are making a real-time tactics game about escaping from a haunted Spanish monastery
News The Stone of Madness launches next year
Hunt: Showdown enjoys highest-ever player count after 1896 update, but player complaints about UI are pushing down its Steam review score: 'I've never seen such a bizarre reaction to so much amazing content'
News Off menu.
Deliriously funny rhythm tooter Trombone Champ is getting a VR version
News Trombone Champ: Unflattened arrives this autumn.
Lonely Mountains: Downhill is getting a skiing-themed sequel, making it the second winter sports game announced this month
News Descending later this year.
2K removes its pointless launcher from Civilization 6, while also announcing that Civilization 7 players will never have to suffer launching the game twice for no reason
News Launch control.
Helldivers 2 player is plagued by trampolining Terminids in 'the most ridiculous bug I've ever encountered in a video game'
News But at least the server didn't bounce them.
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdree's success deftly parries 'extraordinary losses' caused by a recent cyberattack on FromSoftware's parent company
News The magic money Erdtree.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard arrives on October 31, preorders are live now
news Sharpen your sword for October 31.
Mario and Sonic were benched by the Olympics in favour of NFTs and esports, former producer on the series says
News Can't wait for the Bored Apes Olympics.
Twitch employees are worried the service could become a 'zombie brand', as a potential third round of layoffs looms, but luckily CEO Dan Clancy only eats 'medium-sized dinners' during international trips to meet streamers
News "If I was running a manufacturing company I would be meeting with the companies that provided us raw materials."
Tony Pankhurst, actor and face of The Dark Pictures Anthology's Curator, has died
News Pankhurst appeared in every installment of The Dark Pictures' first season.
BioWare claims Dragon Age: The Veilguard has 140,000 lines of dialogue, which is probably more than Baldur's Gate 3, but definitely less than Starfield
News Word count.
Bethesda registers a trademark for 'Starborn' after Todd Howard confirms more Starfield expansions are on the way
News Trademark registered earlier this month.
Fallout: New Vegas designer slams unrealistic release dates that 'burn out and demoralize the developers' as he shares tips on how to spot when a game needs more time in the oven
News "There have been plenty of games that announce a date and I (correctly) predict they will not ship at that date".
Fights, friendships, passions and pugs: At Black Desert's 10th anniversary event, we asked players about why they're still obsessed with the MMO
Story time Tales of love, war and exile.
I tried to stop my peasants from starving in Norland, but their lords only care about sex and holy rings
Hoard of the rings Crusader Kings meets RimWorld in this powerful, if finicky medieval story engine.
As Black Desert Online celebrates its tenth anniversary, Pearl Abyss reveals the future of its MMO lies thousands of years in the past
sands of time "It was like, 'what's the next big adventure?'"
With Doom: The Dark Ages, id Software is still searching for what made the original great, and I hope it never finds it
Doom for improvement Hugo Martin keeps getting Doom wrong, and that's what makes the games so good.
