Latest articles by Rick Lane
Marathon players are amassing way too much loot in Season 2, and the primary cause is a mystery: 'We're still unravelling the source'
News "Progression and access to power moved much faster than the previous season."
Guild Wars 3 isn't the only new Guild Wars on the way: ArenaNet just announced a Guild Wars card game
News Mistbound aims to give fans "a new way to play together."
Crysis 2 had problems, but it got one thing right: destruction
News Fancy a second helping of Crysis 2's big apple crumble?
Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft, dies in plane crash
News The chairman and CEO of Guillemot Corporation was 69.
The creator of Ultima is reportedly reclaiming the series' rights back from EA, and it could happen as soon as next year
News "Every decade or so, I tried to work with EA on a revival of Ultima."
Microsoft researcher builds goat-powered neural network in Age of Empires 2 to show why we should 'stop assuming that LLMs behave like humans just because they were trained with natural language'
"I have this tendency to dial up things to 11 when I really think I need to make a point."
'I try to play as a completionist and leave no stone unturned and no enemy unkilled': Returnal director Harry Krueger talks Deus Ex, Resident Evil, and the arcade classic that inspired Housemarque's best games
Cosmic encounter The Housemarque veteran guides us through the games on his PC.
Mina the Hollower has a secret ending, but good luck seeing it
News If you want to see Mina's alternate conclusion, prepare yourself for an ordeal.
Frontier is making a Planet game that isn't about zoos or rollercoasters, and has just filed trademarks for Planet Resort and Planet Festival
News Planet crafters.
This hand-embroidered medieval adventure game looks like a lovely, chill time—but I'm warning you, don't be fooled by its pleasant exterior
News Scarlet Deer Inn releases next month.
I wish Bungie would stop designing excellent multiplayer shooters and go back to making fantasy strategy games where you blow up zombies with dwarf bombs
Mythic quest Extraction shooters are great and all, but I'd give my right leg for more Myth.
This massively ambitious The Witcher 3 mod aims to recreate its biggest cut questline, and you could be the voice of Geralt of Rivia
News The War Project will add 12 new quests across 10 more hours of monster hunting.
Palworld 1.0 won't wipe your data, 'but you should' says Pocketpair's publishing boss
News "We believe that starting a new character will give you the best experience of Palworld".
Dying Light 2 is a platform now, as the Breach update opens up Techland's zombie survival game 'even more to UGC content'
News "Patch 1.28 is something we wanted to do for a long time."
Don't expect the Death Stranding movie to retell the story of the games, as its director says the film will be set in his 'own corner of the world'
News But you "might see some characters from the game pop up".
Alex Goldman loves challenging games like The Binding of Isaac, but the former Reply All cohost may have been defeated by Hollow Knight: Silksong: 'I spend six hours on a boss and I'm like what is life?'
Tech rapport The creator of Hyperfixed guides us through the games on his PC.
Helldivers 2 will evolve major orders into galactic war campaigns later this month, with huge changes to mission distribution and Super Destroyers also in the works
News Better ship customisation is also coming to Arrowhead's sci-fi shooter.
CD Projekt Red's mysterious Project Hadar will be an 'emotional, open-world experience' similar to The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk
News A job posting reveals a few more details about CDPR's unannounced game.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Season 4 adds a mode that removes OmniMovement and a gun that aims for you
News Black Ops classic offers "streamlined" loadouts and a "throwback" map roster.
Satisfactory's first major update in a year brings back rain, adds fuel trucks and overhauls vehicle pathfinding, but Steam Deck players should approach with caution
News Rain check.
DLSS 5 isn't the first time the future of videogame graphics looked like total balls
Triangles vs balls Tracing the brief history of ellipsoid graphics.
Star Citizen's latest alpha patch adds 385 asteroid defence missions, but players are reporting problems with broken hangar doors and exploding pilots
News Alpha 4.8.1 gives players the chance to earn 'unique blueprints for the first time', if they can actually complete the missions.
2026's weirdest tech leak involves scuba diving, a Caribbean island, and Gearbox head honcho Randy Pitchford, and no, it's not what you expect
News Water reveal.
