Lincoln Carpenter
Lincoln started writing about games while convincing his college professors to accept his essays about procedural storytelling in Dwarf Fortress, eventually leveraging the brainworms from a youth spent in World of Warcraft to write for sites like Waypoint, Polygon, and Fanbyte. After three years freelancing for PC Gamer, he joined on as a full-time News Writer in 2024, bringing an expertise in Caves of Qud bird diplomacy, getting sons killed in Crusader Kings, and hitting dinosaurs with hammers in Monster Hunter.
Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter
The next Black Mirror season brings Paul Giamatti, Awkwafina, Peter Capaldi, and a sequel to USS Callister
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News In 2025, phones will once again be too much.
Is Nintendo suing the Palworld devs over a patent on throwing Poké Balls?
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Opening the Pal Sphere-shaped Pandora's box of patent filings.
What's free on the Epic Games Store right now?
By Morgan Park last updated
FREE STUFF Stay up to date on what games Epic is giving away each week.
In a rare triumph for videogame discourse, God of War Ragnarok will have a setting to reduce puzzle hints on PC
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Mimir can buy the game if he wants to play so badly.
Square Enix confirms lower-than-expected Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Final Fantasy 16 sales in newly public financial report: 'Profits unfortunately did not meet our expectations'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News "We did not manage our title portfolio across the company as well as we could have."
Skate will frontside pop shuvit into early access in 2025
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News It's got boned ollies now.
If Space Marine 2 left you with a 40K craving, Humble Bundle's selling 24 Space Marine books for $18
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News An assortment of Astartes.
In this upcoming Netflix documentary, parents discover their son's other life in World of Warcraft after he died of a degenerative muscular disease
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Before his death, Mats Steen spent tens of thousands of hours as the dashing rogue, Ibelin.
Former Bungie lawyer says the studio's 'management failure' led to Sony 'forcing them to get their heads out of their asses'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News "It appears that Sony's inflicting some discipline on my former colleagues."
Google results insist a Bugsnax sequel is coming out next month, but there's one small problem: Its devs aren't making one
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News "We are not working on a Bugsnax sequel right now and I need AI bs to stop telling kids we are."
'There's an alternate universe where Half-Life disappeared after release': Valve's first marketing strategist Monica Harrington says she helped navigate its way out of early disaster
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Publisher woes almost doomed Valve from the start.
The best co-op games for PC
By Lauren Morton last updated
Updated! The best co-op PC games around whether you want a co-op campaign or a hang space for your group chat.
The next Helldivers 2 Warbond is almost certainly a violation of international humanitarian law
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News You'll want to make sure your battlefield is well ventilated.
Payday 3's game director is stepping down after a hard first year for the heist game sequel
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Starbreeze gets another leadership shakeup following its CEO departure back in March.
Helldivers 2 creative director says it's a better, sillier world when physics bugs can kill players for jumping past the wrong lamppost: 'Realism can suck it'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Watch your step.
Sonic Team director dashes hopes for a standalone Chao Garden: 'We can't just break it off and make it a thing'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Couldn't you, though?
Jagex announces official Old School Runescape private servers, because the grind can always get grindier
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Someday, somewhere, we'll all be ironmen.
Streamers captured Concord's final moments as the servers went offline: 'What a huge f***ing honor'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News "Something went wrong."
Baldur's Gate 3 players are having their hearts thoroughly wrenched by the new evil endings to their companion romances: 'I'll never emotionally recover from this'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Sometimes love can be messy.
Automatons beware: The next major Helldivers 2 patch will overhaul armor penetration later this month
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Arrowhead's combat rebalancing aims to make enemy armor less miserable to fight.
At PAX West, perennial mad lad Swen Vincke once again said Baldur's Gate 3 was somehow going to be even bigger: 'In our heads, we were going to have so many more regions to make'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Our families outside of Faerûn appreciate the downsizing.
WoW's 20th anniversary event will bring Blackrock Depths as a revamped raid, a return to the opening of Ahn'Qiraj, classic dungeon timewalking, and modernized Tier 2 transmogs
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Congratulations to paladins on once again having WoW's best armor set.
Steam's approval process dinged this indie game remake for being a remake of the game it's remaking: 'Seems identical to the game you put out 11 years ago'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News "I was expecting a steam review not a steam review."
Gundam Breaker 4 is the ideal mech building sandbox for mobile suit sickos
By Lincoln Carpenter published
Wow, cool robot There's combat in here, too, I guess.
This week's Deadlock patch offered a brief peek at 3 unreleased heroes before a hotfix shoved them back behind the curtain
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Valve inadvertently gave us an early look at a western gunslinger, a scrap-wizard, and a desert djinn. Through a console command, they're partially playable.
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