Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter
Capcom's Monster Hunter Wilds updates have backed it into a corner
critical eye Performance isn't the only problem Wilds hasn't fixed.
Everything we know about Crimson Desert
Blood Red The new open world action game isn't a direct sequel to Black Desert Online, but expect some similarities.
A game was unintentionally listed as 'Sh***y Dungeon' on Steam in Japan thanks to goofed-up machine translation
News Flattering, no. Funny, yes.
In what was likely a karmic inevitability, Palworld now has its own shameless imitator on the Switch
News Behold: Palland.
Battlefield 6 lead producer says 'large maps exist,' confirming the full game will offer bigger battles than the beta's cramped, chaotic firefights
News If you're already exhausted by Siege of Cairo, you're in luck.
If you felt way too killable in the first Battlefield 6 beta weekend, you might not have imagined it: BF6 devs are investigating reports of instakill 'super bullets'
News Your honor, I think the ladies and gentlemen of the jury will find that I'm not owned.
Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes' before repeating 'I am a disgrace' 86 times in succession
News Google has called Gemini's habit of self-abuse "annoying."
I'm hooting and hollering for this upcoming RPG about staging heists in the underworld from the publishers of Dwarf Fortress and the designers of one of the best narrative games of all time
News The creators of King of Dragon Pass and Six Ages are going unholy with Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists.
2-time Arima Kinen champion Grass Wonder dies at 30
News The legendary thoroughbred was the last surviving Umamusume inspiration from Japan's "Golden Generation" of racehorses.
Keeping us waiting, huh: Konami says the Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater multiplayer mode won't launch until fall
News Fox Hunt's taking a rain check.
It's PC Gamer's Gripes Week and you know what Windows 11 is… mostly fine. But it sure ain't perfect
Gripes week I asked the team to nourish my black heart with their Windows pain and I'm kinda going hungry here.
Finally, I can get a straight flush with cabbages: Our favorite idle farming sim just got a Balatro crossover
News Sure!
Anthem's former executive producer says BioWare was so good at telling stories that its original Anthem pitch convinced EA to greenlight a game it couldn't deliver: 'Maybe there wasn't anything behind the very evocative statement'
News Never write a check you can't cash.
After 10 years, there's a functioning Metal Gear Solid 5 co-op mod so you and a friend can be played like a damn fiddle together
News I'm Big Boss, and you are too.
'Touch grass, read a book, throw a ball, get tackled once in a while': Epic Games art director and OG System Shock 2 artist says the best-looking videogames are designed by people who don't just look at videogames
News "When you see really interesting work, it's because it seems to come from somewhere else."
After 3 years of bargaining with Microsoft, the Raven QA workers have secured their first union contract: 'Ratifying this contract is a win for game workers everywhere'
News After beginning their unionization effort with a strike in 2021, Raven QA testers have negotiated guaranteed raises and limits on mandatory overtime.
It's 2025 and my PC still has no idea what audio devices are connected to it
Gripes week Can anyone hear me?
Reddit's pausing its paid subreddit plans and focusing on 'making Reddit the go-to place for search,' presumably because we're all adding 'reddit' to everything we Google anyway
News Probably for the best.
The Battlefield 6 multiplayer reveal exploded roughly 1.476 helicopters per minute
News I checked.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2: Everything we know
Smile, Jack Everything about Bloodlines 2's development, setting, clans, dancing, and more.
Capcom's stock price plummets as its latest financial report shows cratering Monster Hunter Wilds sales
News After selling more than 10 million copies at launch, Wilds has only sold 477 thousand in the last quarter.
Space Marine 2 publisher says even he 'didn't believe that we could hit 7 million unique players,' but it's proof that players are hungry for sicko games: 'When the execution is right, it ends up resonating with many more people'
News Pullup Entertainment CEO Geoffroy Sardin says big budget triple-A games are suffering from "low agility to find the right audience and low creativity."
