Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter
US Patent Office revokes Nintendo's controversial Pokémon battling patent in nonfinal decision
News Nintendo has plenty of space to respond, however.
WoW's latest raid cinematic could be the start of a massive story retcon for its worst expansion
News Death is not the end.
Bungie nerfs Marathon's slide cancel movement tech, says no movement freaks allowed: 'Unbounded movement, while expressive and clip-worthy, is ultimately unhealthy for the pace of play'
News Please just kill me like a normal person.
Arc Raiders' latest update brings its best improvement yet: Making late spawns less awful
News If you head out with your own loadout, you'll be less likely to find yourself in a half-finished match.
Star Wars Zero Company's lead mission designer is eagerly waiting to watch all your all-astromech challenge runs: 'Granted, it might not be a very easy thing to do'
News D-Squad rides again.
Star Wars Zero Company devs said 'there were some fights' about its story-centric squadmates suffering permadeath, but accepting that 'Star Wars is about loss' made the game stronger
News Hopefully nobody's processing that loss while the Tuskens are around. We know how that goes.
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.
Analysts say Slay the Spire 2 is the best-performing deckbuilder of all time—and the competition isn't close
News Slay the Spire 2 has been averaging over a million users per day since launch.
Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI co-CEO as part of his continuing mission to free himself from the burden of human interaction
News Just me, myself, and my elaborate playground of AI agents.
Capcom says it 'will not implement assets generated by AI into our game content,' but still plans to use AI to 'enhance efficiency and boost productivity' in game development
News Capcom told its investors that its players won't be presented with any AI-generated assets, but it's unclear where it draws the line.
Slay the Spire 2 players leave over 9,000 negative Steam reviews in one day over a card nerf that hasn't even gone live yet—but China's Steam restrictions might bear some of the blame
News There are some nuances to this absurdity.
Pearl Abyss announces Crimson Desert has sold more than 2 million copies in less than 24 hours, promises to 'work to make improvements quickly'
Mixed Steam reviews, but not mixed sales results.
'We're playing game designs from 2005 still': Caves of Qud's co-creator wants to build new kinds of sicko gameplay systems that'll use all the processing potential being left untapped
News My body is ready, but my CPU might not be.
You're laughing—Thomas the Tank Engine is being brutalized by Unreal Engine physics, and you're laughing
News Shield your eyes, Ringo.
After this game dev shared her prototype online, it took less than 5 hours for someone to post their vibecoded knockoff
News "It kinda disincentivizes me from sharing progress when there are slop ghouls around every corner."
The co-creators of Caves of Qud, our favorite roguelike fever dream, worked as narrative consultants on Marathon—which mostly meant they 'got to sit there in the room and throw completely absurd ideas at the wall'
News I knew something about that Tick Milk felt familiar.
Nvidia DLSS 5 reveal: PC Gamer reacts... not wholly positively
So... DLSS 5 This has been one of the most controversial reveals of an Nvidia technology I can remember, and people have a lot of thoughts.
Our idea of Azeroth could have looked very different, because Jeff Kaplan said he 'really wanted WoW to be first-person' in its early days: 'I argued a lot for that'
News We narrowly dodged an FPMMORPG craze.
Jeff Kaplan is sick of hearing you demonize games you weren't going to play anyway: 'Shut the f**k up. No one cares. We don't need to hear that you weren't into it'
News In a 10-hour stream of his studio's upcoming game, Kaplan said he's "bored" with compulsive online outrage.
Amidst high profile live service failures, Arc Raiders production director says he hopes other studios are 'given the same chance we had, because it's so hard to put a game out'
News Arc Raiders got to reinvent itself. Many other games can't.
Japanese furniture brand reveals the Electric Gaming Bed 2, the 'forbidden layout' built for the 'supremely decadent'
News Wouldst thou like to recline deliciously?
Blizzard vet Rob Pardo closed this year's GDC keynote by urging executives to cool it with the layoffs: 'The game team is more valuable than the game itself'
News Somebody does have to make the next one, after all.
