Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter
Even Japan's patent officials seem exhausted with Nintendo's antics as they refuse its 'absurd' defense of a rejected Pokémon patent
News Not a good sign when official patent office communications hit you with a snarky clapback.
I regret to report that the AIs are weebs, too
News An April 2026 study indicates LLMs display a "disproportionate prominence of Japan" when asked questions about culture.
Indie game gets last minute Steam delay while Valve reviews its 'dozens of untextured polygons depicting ass and boobs'
News Future? No Thanks! is the latest game to get caught up in Steam's ambiguous content guidelines.
Marathon's experimental PvE mode is live, immediately tripling its daily player count
News Cryo Archive is open for all, for a limited time.
The best farm sims and games like Stardew Valley
Updated! Games like Stardew Valley have fully taken root on PC, so now we're thoroughly spoiled for choice on new games to plant parsnips in.
Palworld players have harnessed the power of selective breeding to create 'infinite bomb' Pals that can blow themselves up, repeatedly, forever
News Is that good?
There's a dinosaur soulslike launching on Steam this week where you're a spinosaurus swinging a greatsword with your mouth who just might be able to parry the meteor
News Just in case that's of interest to you.
FBI arrests 21-year-old who allegedly stole $200,000 with malware-infected Steam games and spent the money on traceable UberEats gift cards
News Alleged cybercriminals have to eat, too.
Does anyone know how to drive this thing?
HARD BRAKE It's increasingly looking like nobody remembers how videogames work—or cares to.
Retiring Valve programmer says 'at least one' of the studio's beloved game modes was made in secret to avoid pushback from peers
News Valve's mythical flat corporate structure might be somewhat less than 100% self-directed.
The best co-op games to drag your pals into
Updated! The best co-op games around whether you want a co-op campaign or a hang space for your group chat.
Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen's new region and dungeons sound great, but I'm more excited to finally high-five my Pawn on command
News 'Tis one of a servant's many privileges.
The designer of cult classic King of Dragon Pass says his upcoming hellish heist game is pushing the boundaries of a concept he invented in 1999: 'There's really nothing else quite like it'
News Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists is a unique enough game that it needed a new genre descriptor.
Sick of holding F in Palworld? Change these two settings to make crafting and building less obnoxious
News Your fingers will thank you—no keyboard weights necessary.
Palworld revises some of its most egregious creature designs for its 1.0 release
News Some of Pocketpair's Pals now bear a bit less resemblance to their Pokémon predecessors.
US Federal Reserve taps Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who just laid off 3,200 employees, to lead task force on jobs
News The Federal Reserve says its newly-announced task forces represent a "commitment to price stability and maximum employment."
Bethesda union says company HR forced staff to remove a display honoring their laid-off colleagues
News The BGS Union says employees were "almost immediately" instructed to dismantle their memorial.
Players prove Destiny 2 can still produce wonders with discovery of poopy pants transmog
News "The ghosts can revive you but they cannot uns*** your pants."
Xbox layoffs hit accessibility leadership, calling into question Microsoft's continued commitment to accessibility initiatives
News Accessibility efforts have been some of Microsoft's biggest wins—but that didn't stop it from cutting accessibility leads.
Legendary former Tekken boss says people don't 'properly evaluate' Hidetaka Miyazaki's 'remarkable' FromSoft career
News Harada says the Souls series "was the result of everything Miyazaki and his team had built up through their previous titles."
Compulsion Games is returning to independent management amid sweeping Xbox reorganization: 'Our immediate priority is to support our team'
News Evading its previously-reported closure, Compulsion will retain its IP rights as it transitions to independent ownership.
I'm learning to love autobattlers and it's because this Steam demo let me build a gnarly squad of combat freaks out of weird meat and goblin blood
News The goblins started it. I think.
