Latest articles by Rick Lane
A month into early access, Hyper Light Breaker has already added a new playable character, with a perk designed for players who like to 'shoot fast and shoot a lot'
News My Ravona.
Portal Randomized mixes up Valve's beloved puzzler by turning the floor into lava and filling chambers with a deadly neurotoxin
News Demo available now.
Nested Lands is a 'brutal' survival city-builder about guiding villagers through a plague-infested world, and you can play its open alpha right now
News "Fend off" bandit attacks as you try to survive a world ravaged by pestilence.
Hasbro is working with Saber Interactive on a 'tentpole' IP using Space Marine 2's swarm tech
News Finally, a Risk cover shooter.
Atomfall dev says Rebellion's open world shooter has 'some experimental stuff' that can have a 'huge influence' on the game world: 'It might work out. It might not'
News "I'm looking forward to finding out."
Need to relax? Grab a coffee, kick back and submerge yourself in the sound of Hades 2's narrator reading the patch notes for its latest massive update
News Changelog ASMR.
No More Room in Hell 2's 'biggest update yet' introduces weapon attachments, new level scenarios, and ensures players no longer spawn 'without a body'
News Why didn't the zombie survivor go to the ball?
Former Sony exec finally says the quiet part out loud: putting PlayStation games on PC is 'almost like printing money'
News Server bank.
Croteam 'never planned to make' its philosophical puzzler The Talos Principle, but it emerged as a 'happy accident' while working on Serious Sam
News "It was really surprising when we found out that those puzzles were enjoyable for the players."
League of Legends is getting a hotly anticipated skin for its lich necromancer Mordekaiser, but fans' joy has been 'obliterated' because it's 'stuck in a $200 fomo gacha store'
News Players aren't happy about the pricing for Sahn-Uzal.
GameStop announces plans to sell off French and Canadian outlets, while its CEO yells about 'Wokeness and DEI' in bizarre, self-defeating promotion
News More than 500 stores affected.
Just Cause creator's new studio announces 'incredibly difficult' layoffs while still working on its first game
News "Shifting market conditions" the cause.
A Fallout: New Vegas fan is so fed up waiting for a remake he's decided to do it himself. The twist? He's making it in the Sims 2
News Moving (Mr) House.
Dead by Daylight delays its existing update plans for a 'substantial quality of life initiative', which includes adding a surrender mode and cracking down on 'extreme hiding'
News Overhaul will address "many longstanding concerns and frustrations".
Capcom says Ōkami sold quite well, actually, and it's wanted to do a sequel for ages but was waiting for 'the stars to align'
News Such stars including Hideki Kamiya.
Saber Interactive's head honcho pulled a wild stunt to nab the Halo: Combat Evolved remaster, telling Microsoft he'd do the job for free before ultimately squeezing the publisher for millions
News Strap in, folks.
Mintrocket's director is delighted to bring Like a Dragon's Ichiban into Dave the Diver, 'It's been a dream of mine to invite these iconic characters into Dave’s world'
News Ichiban dives in this April.
Directive 8020: A Dark Pictures Game launches John Carpenter's the Thing into space this October
News Supermassive's latest horror adventure arrives later this year.
A renewed obsession for British TV show Robot Wars led me on a wild goose chase to find a good robot fighting game
Scrap metal Pit of oblivion.
'Massive' Stalker 2 patch adds A-life updates and 1,700 other fixes to GSC's survival shooter, so many you'll need to go on a little quest to read them all
News "All aspects of the game" tweaked.
Planet Coaster 2's latest update adds synchronised rides, customisable video billboards, and stops guests suffering from perpetual panic
News Ride maintenance.
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic gets co-op mode and extra content thanks to the mod community's collaboration with Ubisoft: 'To see it all come together has been very emotional for us'
News "We are walking into a new era for Dark Messiah."
Indie FPS developer targets content creators who take undisclosed payments from rival developers and then dunk on his game: 'You and I will have legal problems'
News "I'm tired of watching you all get paid off to do hit pieces on games that don't fork cash over for you."
