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Rick Lane
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Freelance journalist, critic and consultant. Bylines at The Guardian, PC Gamer, NME, Eurogamer and more. Immersive sim geek. Contact: rick@ricklane.co.uk
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November 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Dressed for spooky season.
A picture of a daft tuxedo cat sat down wearing a purple bow tie with a pumpkin pattern.
October 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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The unreleased sequel to Ice Ice Baby
Part of a horrible, bad, awful, terrible abominable, evil, not very good AI generated image depicting water conservation that reads "Rain Rain Barkels".
October 15, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Heck of a choice out of the gate in Borderlands 4.
A pair of menu buttons which read "Submit" and "Stay Offline".
September 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Found a book from the future.
An image of an old copy of James and the Giant Peach. An image of the inside of the Cover of James and the Giant Peach. An inscription reads "From Mr and Mrs Watson, 25th Dec 1978." An image of the edition notice of James and the Giant Peach, which cites a reprint in 1979.
September 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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£0 to pay today. Broken legs tomorrow.
An advertisement for Mafia: The Old country showing box art and screenshot of the game. At the bottom is text that reads £0 to pay today & choose a plan to suit you. Representative 29.9% APR (variable).
September 1, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Hit the motherlode in the Salvation Army.
An image of the golden balls, telly addicts and are you smarter than a 10 year old Nintendo DS verdict.
August 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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I don't even like Braid.
An image of a section of a Steam purchase history page showing the following games: Peggle Deluxe, Audiosurf, The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, and two purchases of Braid, one a gift copy.
August 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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When u plant the bomb too soon in Counter-Strike.
July 31, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Case in point.
A screenshot of text that reads: As news of the CompUSA version spreads, the questions begin to turn into opinions. On September 26, in a thread titled "Daggerfall: CompUSA and musings", user Todd A Carter writes: "Creating a special "enhanced" version of Daggerfall for one particular store (CompUSA, for the uninitiated) sucks. Especially for those of us who bought it elsewhere." Following this, user Nunya@m.f replies "I will NOT buy Daggerfault because of this marketing strategy….What a crock of shit."
July 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Can't believe they're selling AI in tubs now.
An image of a hand holding up a black tub of Palace fast drying wall filler. The text on the tub reads "Ready mixed filler: All purpose fast drying filling compound."
June 30, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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I'm sorry but Centrist Dan sounds like a Disco Elysium character.
An image of text that reads: Centrist Dan wins in Romania, centre-right party ahead in Portugal.
May 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Feel like you probably shouldn't bang on about people speaking English if you then deploy the language in such a heinous manner you are immediately compared to Enoch Powell.
May 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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An image of text that reads as follows: "Once you've gathered your forces and followed all the obligatory breadcrumbs Lost Ark lays out, you return to the fortress and a cutscene plays. As a lone watchman overlooks the Rift of Mayhem from the fortress' battlements, purple portals begins to appear in the sky, and the heavens start raining clowns. I'm not talking about a drizzle or a summer shower here, either. I'm talking a full-on, category-five clown typhoon."
April 10, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Image of text that reads as follows: Why did I do this? Well, if I felt like justifying it, I'd write something like "The Thief series is synonymous with excellent level design, so deliberately trying to make a bad Thief map is an interesting experiment, one that may yield fascinating insights into what precisely makes Thief levels great." Yes, that sounds convincing.
March 30, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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I've heard of people seeing jesus in their toast but what does it mean when you see squidward in your coffee?
March 15, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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February 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Satisfactory updating to include the entire universe by the looks of it.
February 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Please enjoy my daughter's customised Worms WMD team.
A list of custom Worms names in Worms WMD. In descending order: Big Daddy, Vidder, Mayhem, Idiot, Poppy, Fat Pig, Blister, Tatty Doughnut
February 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Thinking about how well it went last time a labour government promised to crack down on immigration.
February 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Some powerfully cursed quotes in this story:
January 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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The MCU is really scraping the barrel now.
January 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Also comes with the tastiest spread since Nutella.
An image of the double-page spread of PC Gamer's "Paradise Frost" feature exploring the making of Crysis, depicting two octopus-like aliens prowling around a ruined cabin in a jungle wreathed in ice and snow.
January 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Was just looking through Steam's Best of 2024 Top Sellers, and it's kinda wild that Project Zomboid is in the same tier as Balatro, Metaphor, Silent Hill 2 and Dragon Age.
A screenshot of a section of Steam's "Best of 2024" Bronze Tier top sellers, which includes Project Zomboid, Silent Hill 2, Balatro, Metaphor: Refantazio, and Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
January 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM