Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter
Take-Two CEO says he expects the games industry to be in 'commercial streaming mode within 3 years,' which is great news if you hate owning things
News Rockstar's parent company believes cloud gaming will grow its customer base even as hardware prices rise.
Capcom says it wants Monster Hunter Wilds to outsell World 'over the medium to long term,' but it'll need to muster a lot of sales momentum to get there
News Wilds didn't rank in Capcom's quarterly best sellers, but the company hopes to turn that around.
New Kingdom Come trademark filings mention 'online' virtual worlds—but we shouldn't assume Warhorse is making a multiplayer game just yet
News A videogame IP attorney says the filings are "far from a promise that the next Kingdom Come videogame will feature multiplayer."
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.
Destiny 2 players are learning how to crack into its infamous content vault by tinkering with old game builds
News Two months after it entered purgatory, Destiny 2's community archaeologists are creating tools for exploring its long-absent worlds.
'Wait for me, my Czech friend': Japanese dev adds Czech localization just for the one Steam user who wishlisted his game in the Czech Republic
News The international spirit of baseball and friendship might frown on the method, though.
Microsoft is planning to bring Xbox 360 games to PC, according to leaked documents
News The feature is expected to get a "gradual" launch between 2027 and 2028.
Ubisoft's NFT tactics game, a thing that still exists, is shutting down in October
News Technically, it shed its Web3 functionality in May, but it didn't seem to help much.
Former WoW designer says Blizzard had no way to measure maximum player DPS while building early raids—so the studio enlisted its strongest sickos to grind target dummies
News When in doubt, do your own DPS and round up.
Godot natively supports coding in Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform, if you needed another reason to switch game engines
News Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any code that is not of fine quality.
This upcoming Steam game is pioneering the accursed trucking genre, and as a former delivery guy I could not be more thrilled
News Prospice: Anomalous Logistics simulates the canonical deliveryman experience of having your dreambody dissolved in the labyrinth of collective death.
Latest Palworld patch keeps Victor & Shadowbeak from accidentally teleporting out of existence, prevents Panthalus from breaking everything
News Palworld's bosses should be a bit more predictable.
WoW Classic's latest patch is terrorizing hardcore players with bugged piles of underground enemies, and it's likely due to a decades-old quirk of Blizzard programming
News The Stonetalon Mountains are up to their old tricks again.
AI companies are anonymously buying and destroying millions of books through middleman services to avoid headlines about AI companies buying and destroying millions of books
News Booksellers say they're facing a sudden surge of orders for seemingly random rare books—and fear they might be profiting from their destruction.
After leaving Epic Games last month, its former 'Unreal evangelist' is now building his own game engine
News Sjoerd De Jong aims to combat game development "stagnation" he says has emerged from Epic and Unity market dominance.
'Wtf is going on': Indie dev discovers their neglected Steam game is powering an Undertale multiplayer mod following its freak 1700% jump in player activity
News Little-known platformer Crashphalt is enjoying an unexpected popularity—but its players are enjoying something else.
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.
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.
