Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter
As frustration with Marathon cheaters intensifies, Bungie says improvements to its 'zero-tolerance policy around cheating' are underway: 'This is an area that we will continue to invest in'
News It's also investigating how to better manage player toxicity and stream sniping.
Devious Crimson Desert players are sending NPCs tumbling to their deaths by weaponizing their insatiable apple cravings
News It's a sandbox, they said. Let people have their own fun, they said.
Your joys will always be someone else's junk
SUIT YOURSELF People don't like a game I've been playing, and that's okay.
Our favorite open world FPS indie gem is getting New Game+, Spider-Man swinging, and wallrunning later this month
News Another excuse to play more Echo Point Nova? How could I refuse?
Mega Crit co-founder says he wasn't bothered by the Steam backlash to Slay the Spire 2's beta balance patch: 'It's difficult for players to feel like they're heard'
News Casey Yano says that, ultimately, reviewers are just using the tools they're given.
Marathon game director says Bungie's rebalancing 'god-like' knife damage, buffing Vandal and Recon shells, and knocking bubble shields down a peg
News Maybe Recon's tracker drone will start terrorizing someone else for once.
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.
