Lincoln Carpenter

Lincoln Carpenter

News Writer

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

A non-human warrior explores a HoMM-3-style map.
Wielders of the Essence is revolutionizing the bullet heaven genre by letting you play as swamp-dwelling amphibians instead of vamp-hunting Italians

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News No frog fights alone.

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A hunter riding atop a flying seikret in Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance.
Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance caps off Capcom's redemption arc with a 'massive' expansion in 2027

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News So many promising new lizard faces to hit with hammers.

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The titular gundam in Gundam Rogue Orbit.
Bandai Namco is pitting Gundams against kaiju in 2027

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Gundam Rogue Orbit's enemies are definitely no Zaku, boy.

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A shrimp dodges a laser beam fired by an eel in Shrimp Game.
I regret to inform you that you almost certainly overlooked a sick as hell shrimp game on Steam last month

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News There's still time to correct this grievous error.

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New armor sets arriving in Destiny 2's final update.
'What was unravelling is suddenly stabilizing': Destiny 2's last update is getting an absurd 71 pages of patch notes, but its story is closing with a shrug

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News At least that big, beautiful orb is back where it belongs.

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Jack Quaid wearing a cube-shaped mocap rig for God of War Laufey.
They did motion capture on a cube

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News God of War Laufey necessitated an exciting new form of method acting.

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Marathon Survival Directive - Runner
Marathon's first 'PvP-lite' experimental mode sounds like a delightfully terrifying alternative

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Just your squad, hostile NPCs, and an escalating number of Rook chaos agents.

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Exotic gear from the Destiny 2: Lightfall expansion.
Bungie devs have resurrected an obscene amount of guns for Destiny 2's final update: 'My body physically hurts from the amount of items we were updating'

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Kindled Orchid. Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

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A joker from Balatro and a thoroughly pumped businessman.
Balatro publisher Playstack could soon belong to the same private equity firm that owns Fandom and GameSpot

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Playstack CEO Harvey Elliott says "for now, it's business as usual."

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Screenshots and artwork from Destiny 2's Season of the Lost and 30th Anniversary event.
In a bittersweet return to form, Destiny 2's final update is giving players reasons to roam its public zones once again

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News I'll see you planetside.

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Preparing to golf at a gong in Normal Golf Game.
This week's most compelling Steam demo is a torment engine disguised as golf

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Normal Golf Game offers a tantalizing brand of misery.

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UKRAINE - 2021/07/24: In this photo illustration a Steam logo of a video game digital distribution service is seen on a smartphone and a pc screen.
Steam Workshop now looks like it was designed in this decade

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Workshop just got a fancy UI update, fresh out of the beta branch.

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Images from Destiny 2's Renegades expansion
As its retirement looms, Destiny 2 is still the gold standard for joyous gunplay

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

SWORD LOGIC Even now, shotgun wizards remain unbeatable.

SWORD LOGIC
Drifter making an oof face during a Gambit match intro.
Destiny 2 players are processing their grief by posting their most embarrassing self-owns, and I've never felt more seen

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News This is Destiny, to me.

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Xivu Arath in an Epsiode: Heresy cutscene.
Former Bungie dev says 'you'd be surprised how many times' expansions were pitched for a fan-favorite Destiny archvillain who's now left hanging

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

Xivu Arath, we hardly knew ye.

FPS
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani against a Minecraft screenshot backdrop.
Alright, so maybe Zohran Mamdani isn't New York's first gamer mayor

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News It was nice to dream.

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Cayde points his gun, Ace of Spades
Destiny 2 hasn't been the game I'd loved in years, but it still sucks to know it's ending

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

Ghost shells For a time, Destiny 2 was a masterclass in all kinds of gameplay, and only some of them involved pressing keys.

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Ghost shells
A skaven prepares to clobber another in Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Deathmaster.
Playing a murderous ratman in this newly-announced Warhammer platformer is my penance for bisecting thousands of Skaven over the years

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Deathmaster puts us on the other side of the Vermintide.

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Genghis Khan is a triumphant pose in Civ 7.
Civ 7's massive overhaul update brings its highest Steam player count in over a year

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Initial reactions to the Test of Time update are mixed, however.

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A player battles a zombie peasant in Heathen.
This indie dev's dungeon crawling 'descent into madness' was inspired by motherly love

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Shoutout to moms.

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The Reclaimer character classes in Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core.
Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core launch times and release date

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

LAUNCH TIMES Management's calling in the big guns.

LAUNCH TIMES
A subnautica 2 player character sitting in a chair with their hands tented in contemplation.
Don't expect to kill fish in a future Subnautica 2 patch: 'You are here to exist on this planet, not to dominate it'

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Unknown Worlds says it doesn't want players to become "the conquering colonist."

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A diver hanging off the side of a submersible craft in Subnautica 2.
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.

Survival & Crafting
Karen Prell speaks onstage during the 2022 Children's & Family Emmys at Wilshire Ebell Theatre on December 11, 2022 in Los Angeles, California; Wheatley from Portal 2
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.

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A trio of Tiger Warriors in Total War: Warhammer 3.
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.

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