Lincoln has been writing about games for 12 years—unless you include the essays about procedural storytelling in Dwarf Fortress he convinced his college professors to accept. Leveraging the brainworms from a youth spent in World of Warcraft to write for sites like Waypoint, Polygon, and Fanbyte, Lincoln spent three years freelancing for PC Gamer before joining 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

Subnautica 2's early access roadmap promises quality-of-life additions, co-op improvements, and—eventually—new biomes and creatures
By Lincoln Carpenter published
The ocean's got room for more.

We can thank a Jim Henson Company puppeteer for some of Valve's best animation work
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News TF2, Left 4 Dead, and Portal have some Fraggle Rock in them.

Total War: Warhammer 3 pushes the giant tiger people button next week
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Grand Cathay players can soon command Bhashiva and the Tiger Warriors.

Subnautica 2 pulls over 370,000 concurrent players in its first 30 minutes on Steam as it cannonballs into early access
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News We might need a bigger ocean.

Capcom says it's eyeing Devil May Cry, Ace Attorney, Dragon's Dogma for 'sequels, remakes, ports, etc.', and I'll gladly take the excuse to get my hopes up
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Dragon's Dogma mentioned!

Subnautica 2 devs say it's 'bigger and more polished' than any of the studio's previous early access launches
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Unknown Worlds is eager to collaborate with its community once again.

One of the best rated games on Steam this week is an action platformer where you can parry a giant industrial digger with a chainsaw
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News It is, admittedly, a pretty good pitch.

Former NetEase exec's new investment group is funding Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic because 'everyone wins' if you 'give the best creator the opportunity to work on a dream project'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News After raising $100 million, GreaterThan Group is also funding a shooter from former Black Ops design director David Vonderhaar.

Singleplayer simulated MMO Erenshor is getting raids this summer
By Lincoln Carpenter published
Exclusive You'll be able to join 14 computer-controlled players in an endgame loot grind.

Anticipated supercannon sim PVKK delayed until 2027, but for the kind of reason you want to hear
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News This just gives us more time to weigh the ethical implications of operating giant weaponry for the baddies.

Update: Discord says it's 'seeing significant recovery' after a partial outage
By Wes Fenlon published
news If you can't start up Discord, it's not just you.

This bloody vampire FPS with Splatoon movement tech is the best $5 I've spent on Steam this week
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Sometimes making a mess is a good thing.

Civ 7 is getting 'by far the most-requested addition' later this month, but I'm more interested in whether it'll finally feel fully baked
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Firaxis says the massive Test of Time update is Civ 7's "biggest and most fundamentally game-changing."

Xbox creator becomes first console designer to bake bread using wild yeast illicitly collected from Microsoft campus
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News At least one Xbox culture is thriving.

Surprise: The studio making Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic is full of former BioWare devs
By Lincoln Carpenter published
Nobody could have foreseen this.

Far Far West is a surprise hit on Steam, but its players have one demand: A yeehaw button
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Give these robot cowboys the voice they deserve.

Subnautica 2's lead game designer says it helped cure his sea terror—only for its new apex ocean predator to give him all-new phobias: 'This is going to make many people sad and scared'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Subnautica 2 is inventing new reasons to fear squids.

Subnautica 2 devs say it's 'an exploration game first,' expanding on the first game's 'masterclass' in player-driven discovery
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Subnautica 2 features a new world and new ocean, but its devs hope it offers a familiar sense of wonder.

PowerWash Simulator 2 is getting Star Wars DLC, and it's about time somebody's focusing on the most important part of the galaxy far, far away
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Assuming I don't need to clean the Jedi temple after a certain bad night.

Resident Evil Requiem has sold 7 million copies in 2 months—a milestone that took the RE4 remake a year
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Capcom celebrated the milestone with two delightful cakes.

Developers of Steam Next Fest's wildly popular robot wizard cowboy shooter say its cowboy robots are also wizards because 'magic is always cool'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Hard to argue with that.

The best co-op games to drag your pals into
By Harvey Randall last updated
Updated! The best co-op games around whether you want a co-op campaign or a hang space for your group chat.

AI is 10 to 20 times more likely to help you build a bomb if you hide your request in cyberpunk fiction, new research paper says
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News After jailbreaking AI with adversarial poetry, researchers reveal what they call a "critical gap" in current AI safety practices.
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