Rick Lane
Contributor
Rick snuck into his dad's office to play Doom when he was six and has been obsessed with PC gaming ever since. A freelance journalist since 2008, he's contributed to RPS since 2014. He loves shooters, survival games, and anything to do with VR. If you ask him about immersive sims, expect to be there for a while.
Feature
Reality Bytes: Underdogs is the undisputed champion of the VR arena fighter
Thrilla in Gorilla
Review
Expeditions: A Mudrunner Game review: the dirt's as good as ever, but the science is a bit too clean
Scree-ing holiday
Feature
Nightdive Studios on a big 2023: acquired by Atari, begging for Dark Forces, and remaking System Shock
"We knew whatever we wanted to do next was going to be even better"
News
An "embarrassing indictment": developers decry last nights The Game Awards ceremony
Please wrap it up.
News
The Day Before is finally out, and according to its Steam reviews, it absolutely honks
"Turns out it is a real game. Kind of wish it wasn't."
News
Former Rockstar animator reckons it's "gonna be a long time" before GTA 6 comes to PC
Rockstar likely focussed on "pushing the limits" on console hardware.
Feature
Reality Bytes: Assassin's Creed Nexus features fantastic VR platforming, but crap combat
Bird's eye spew?
Deals
Get a gaming keyboard for £20 with the Razer Cynosa Lite, plus 33% off Xbox Game Pass for PC
That's cynosa bad price for a keyboard.
Deals
Get a no-nonsense gaming monitor for under £75 this Black Friday weekend
The AOC 24B2XH is a 1080p screen that does what it says on the tin.
Deals
Get a great gaming laptop for less than £1000 with the Gigabyte G5 KF
Ray-traced gaming on the road.
Deals
Grab the best gaming CPU for less this Black Friday weekend
The Intel Core i5-13600K is available at a discount right now
Deals
Get the best gaming headset for half price this Black Friday weekend
The brilliant Logitech G432 is cheaper than usual right now.
Deals
AMD's excellent Ryzen 5 5600X processor is currently half-price on Amazon
A deal just for CPU.
Deals
Grab a great gaming mouse for less than £20 this Black Friday weekend
The Steelseries Rival 3 is just £18 on Amazon UK.
Deals
Get 32GB of Crucial Pro RAM for less than £50 this Black Friday weekend
Boost your PC's brainpower.
Deals
Get ViewSonic's 180hz Omni gaming monitors for less this Black Friday
Choose between 24 inch and 27 inch models.
Deals
Get £/$100 off the Logitech G915 Lightspeed TKL Wireless this Black Friday
A cutdown price for a cutdown keyboard.
Deals
Save $40 on the Intel Arc A750 graphics card for Black Friday
Get the best budget 1080p GPU at an extra affordable price.
Deals
Grab the SanDisk Ultra MicroSD at a discount this Black Friday
Boost your Steam Deck's storage capacity.
Deals
Get almost 40% off the Meta Quest 2 this Black Friday, plus £/$50 in Amazon credit
A better deal than the Quest 3 at this price.