Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter
Update: EA is deploying a fix for the 'missing content' and 'purchase to play' errors locking EA App users out of Battlefield 6
News EA says the fix should "be completed within the next hour or so."
EA is charging Skate players $35 for a cardboard Dead Space skin and it took me 40 straight minutes of game crashes to confirm it
News The revenue must flow.
After warring with fans for years, Black Ops 7 will finally ditch aggressive skill-based matchmaking: 'Our team feels strongly about providing players with a more varied experience'
News A triumph for pubstompers everywhere.
It's a great year for Battlefield 6 multiplayer, but the campaign's a misfire
PASS ARMATA If BF6 is 2025's CoD-killer, it won't be because of the singleplayer.
Founder of Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud publisher Kitfox Games says its procgen sims for sickos are 'giving storytelling tools back to the people when games and passive media took them away'
News Streets of Fortuna, Kitfox's own in-development "megasim," is chasing that same systems-driven storytelling.
Vampire Survivors devs say online co-op mode is 'coming soon'—along with the answer to 'a burning question that has been asked thousands of times'
News "Play online with up to 3 other friends from around the world, just as Poe Ratcho intended."
Bungie shows Marathon proof of life with the announcement of another closed playtest
News You can apply for a playtest slot now.
As Game Pass prices get laughably high, Microsoft is reportedly spinning up a free version of Xbox Cloud Gaming—but of course you'll have to sit through ads
News The best things in life are… ad-supported?
EA's $55 billion acquisition is the biggest leveraged buyout in private equity history. Here's why it has everyone terrified
collateral Private equity and PIF investment aren't a reassuring pair.
Everything we know about Crimson Desert
Blood Red The new open world action game isn't a direct sequel to Black Desert Online, but expect some similarities.
A surprise Steam update for Prototype broke the mods making the 16-year old game playable on modern systems—but could hint at a potential remaster
News Updated credits include remaster studio Iron Galaxy and references to a "Ubisoft Connect Version" that doesn't currently exist.
Control is 90% off in the Steam Autumn Sale, meaning you can read some of the finest redacted documents in videogames for just $4
News The superpowers and stuff are cool, too.
REPO devs are adding a new mechanic that'll let you grab things while tumbling and—more importantly—kill things with butt physics
News Oh, and you can climb walls, too.
Brazil's president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law
News The loot box ban will go into effect in March.
Diablo 4 is crossing the streams with Starcraft cosmetics, and honestly? A Terran marine makes a better Barbarian than I'd have expected
News Surely, this is the acknowledgement that Starcraft diehards have been waiting for.
This $2 coin flipping 'non-idle clicker' is a one-button labyrinth of probability paranoia
News 20% is 20%.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 devs 'straight up turned down' skin deals with 'big, big brands' following Tactical Beavis backlash
News A reprieve from the rising tide of slop—but for how long?
Monster Hunter Wilds' FF14 crossover update and Omega hunt lands on Monday, but we're still waiting until December for those much-needed performance improvements
News Don't worry—Capcom will still sell you more cosmetic DLC in the meantime.
EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes?
News "Gold all doth lure, Gold doth secure all things. Alas, we poor!"
Pocketpair announces Palfarm, a Palworld 'cozy life' farm sim spinoff where you can still give a monkey an assault rifle, but like, cozily
News I suppose coziness is relative.
9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game
News Planet Centauri suffered a bug that's affected less than 100 game releases since 2015.
Squadron 42: Everything we know about Star Citizen’s singleplayer campaign
Star-studded Get up to lightspeed on Squadron 42's cast members and story details.
Team Reptile announces Hyperfunk, a Bomb Rush Cyberfunk follow-up that's '2 seconds per second of evolved funkstyle'
News That's one additional second per second of funkstyle!
