Rick Lane
Rick has been fascinated by PC gaming since he was seven years old, when he used to sneak into his dad's home office for covert sessions of Doom. He grew up on a diet of similarly unsuitable games, with favourites including Quake, Thief, Half-Life and Deus Ex. Between 2013 and 2022, Rick was games editor of Custom PC magazine and associated website bit-tech.net. But he's always kept one foot in freelance games journalism, writing for publications like Edge, Eurogamer, the Guardian and, naturally, PC Gamer. While he'll play anything that can be controlled with a keyboard and mouse, he has a particular ion for first-person shooters and immersive sims.
Latest articles by Rick Lane

'The vibes have never been worse' Bungie's morale is reportedly in 'free fall' following its art theft fiasco
By Rick Lane published
News Devs also claim they have been often ignored by the studio's "good old boy" leadership regarding the overarching design.

Netflix's long-awaited Gears of War movie might actually have a director, and it's the guy who helmed Bullet Train and codirected John Wick
By Rick Lane published
News David Leitch is reportedly in negotiations with Netflix.

After raising over $800 million from its community, Star Citizen's developer delays the release of a new ship upgrade as players baulk at having to pay for it
By Rick Lane published
News "For future gameplay kit introductions, we’ll ensure these items are obtainable in-game on day one."

The Skyblivion and Oblivion Remastered romance continues to blossom, as Bethesda invites the modders to its studio for tea and sweetrolls
By Rick Lane published
News "Seeing the excitement from the Bethesda team" was "absolutely unreal", according to Skyblivion project lead.

Take-Two CEO reckons Civilization 7's mixed reception is just history repeating itself: 'Every time we've come out with a new platform iteration of Civilization, there's been some consternation on the part of consumers'
By Rick Lane published
News Strauss Zelnick its the sequel "definitely had some challenges", but says that overall "we're really happy with how it's going".

REPO developer teases the game's 'most powerful weapon' yet, a mountable cannon that will 'turn your cart into a battle tank'
By Rick Lane published
News Balance changes to enemies and player health also in the works.

Two Warhammer 40,000 games will be delisted from Steam on Monday, and one of them is currently on a 90% discount
By Rick Lane published
News You've got two days before Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon and Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach leave Steam forever.

This Half-Life mod remakes Valve's classic shooter to be both longer and wider, and it has radically altered my perception of the original
By Rick Lane published
Unforeseen consequences Half-Life: Extended is a surprisingly effective reinterpretation of Black Mesa.

Black Mirror's interactive episode Bandersnatch is being removed from Netflix, as 'the technology has served its purpose'
By Rick Lane published
News Bandersnatch gets snatched from the service after the weekend.

The best FPS of 2024 simply cannot stop adding new maps, introducing 37 new arenas, 4 new weapons, and a 'Horrible Smelly Head' in its latest update
By Rick Lane published
News Straftat keeps on giving.

MechWarrior 5's beefy story expansion is out, and it has the most videogame title I've ever had the pleasure to read
By Rick Lane published
News Ghost Bear: Flash Storm adds 12 missions, eight new mechs, and two new punctuation marks.

Timberborn's latest update adds ziplines and tubeways for rapid beaver deployment and stops your rodent residents from throwing down in sudden fits of breakdancing
By Rick Lane published
News Update 7 also overhauls terrain and adds tunnels.

Finally, this Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 camping mod means I'll never have to scour Bohemia for a place to sleep again
By Rick Lane published
News "Time to play poacher peasant Henry simulator 9000."

Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project'
By Rick Lane published
News Project leader is "opening up the floor" for a replacement.

After a decade of development, Roboquest's developer is calling time on its roguelite shooter: 'There's no way we can continue to provide content for players with over 1,000 hours of gameplay'
By Rick Lane published
News "It was never meant to be what is called today 'a game as a service'".

Celebrate Star Wars being good again with up to 85% off EA's Jedi and Battlefront games until May 15
By Rick Lane published
News Star Wars: Squadrons is also going cheap.

Resident Evil 4 Remake is now the fastest game in the series to sell 10 million copies, and it's currently half price if you want to make it 10 million and 1
By Rick Lane published
News Ganadosh.

Humble's latest bundle gets you every Doom game, a discount on Doom: The Dark Ages and some Wolfenstein as a treat for less than $30
By Rick Lane published
News More Doom than you can shake a chainsaw at.

Oblivion's forgotten goblin wars system, which saw gobbos battling each other all over Cyrodiil, emerged from deg a single quest: 'I figured it wouldn't be a lot more work to make this systemic'
By Rick Lane published
News "It certainly allowed for fun emergent gameplay."

Better hurry up and finish your Oblivion Remastered playthrough, because the massive mod that aims to rebuild all of Morrowind gets a whole lot bigger on May 1
By Rick Lane published
News Outland-er.

The RoboCop: Rogue City expansion that looks like Dredd will bring more trouble to your PC in July
By Rick Lane published
News Unfinished Business gets a release date.

This life sim features co-op survival, farming, factory automation, time-travel romance, ghost hunting and mechs, which is probably why it doubled its Kickstarter goal in its first 24 hours
By Rick Lane published
News Autonomica aims to do it all.

The adventure game that kicked off the Syberia series just got a shiny Myst-like makeover
By Rick Lane published
News Amerzone – The Explorer's Legacy is out now.
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