Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter
Anticipated supercannon sim PVKK delayed until 2027, but for the kind of reason you want to hear
News This just gives us more time to weigh the ethical implications of operating giant weaponry for the baddies.
Update: Discord says it's 'seeing significant recovery' after a partial outage
news If you can't start up Discord, it's not just you.
This bloody vampire FPS with Splatoon movement tech is the best $5 I've spent on Steam this week
News Sometimes making a mess is a good thing.
Civ 7 is getting 'by far the most-requested addition' later this month, but I'm more interested in whether it'll finally feel fully baked
News Firaxis says the massive Test of Time update is Civ 7's "biggest and most fundamentally game-changing."
Xbox creator becomes first console designer to bake bread using wild yeast illicitly collected from Microsoft campus
News At least one Xbox culture is thriving.
Surprise: The studio making Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic is full of former BioWare devs
Nobody could have foreseen this.
Far Far West is a surprise hit on Steam, but its players have one demand: A yeehaw button
News Give these robot cowboys the voice they deserve.
Subnautica 2's lead game designer says it helped cure his sea terror—only for its new apex ocean predator to give him all-new phobias: 'This is going to make many people sad and scared'
News Subnautica 2 is inventing new reasons to fear squids.
Subnautica 2 devs say it's 'an exploration game first,' expanding on the first game's 'masterclass' in player-driven discovery
News Subnautica 2 features a new world and new ocean, but its devs hope it offers a familiar sense of wonder.
PowerWash Simulator 2 is getting Star Wars DLC, and it's about time somebody's focusing on the most important part of the galaxy far, far away
News Assuming I don't need to clean the Jedi temple after a certain bad night.
Resident Evil Requiem has sold 7 million copies in 2 months—a milestone that took the RE4 remake a year
News Capcom celebrated the milestone with two delightful cakes.
Developers of Steam Next Fest's wildly popular robot wizard cowboy shooter say its cowboy robots are also wizards because 'magic is always cool'
News Hard to argue with that.
The best co-op games to drag your pals into
Updated! The best co-op games around whether you want a co-op campaign or a hang space for your group chat.
AI is 10 to 20 times more likely to help you build a bomb if you hide your request in cyberpunk fiction, new research paper says
News After jailbreaking AI with adversarial poetry, researchers reveal what they call a "critical gap" in current AI safety practices.
Crusader Kings 3's next major expansions will bring playable Popes and merchant republics
News Chapter 5's expansions will introduce a suite of new religion and trade mechanics.
I've always wanted to fire the infinite cannons of a giant anime battleship, and this solo dev's giving me a chance on Steam later this year
News Who among us hasn't yearned for a super dimension fortress of their very own?
Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah says it's valuable to have 'an idiot at the table' during game development—but only if they can remember who the experts are
News And they told me designated idiot wasn't a viable career path.
While I go stir-crazy waiting for another FromSoft game, I'm counting on these 4 indie Armored Core-likes to satisfy my mecha cravings when they hit Steam
News Put me back in the robot.
Dwarf Fortress is coming to Magic: The Gathering and I'm beginning to suspect Wizards of the Coast is targeting me, specifically
News ASCII art, meet card art.
Palworld imitator Pickmon changes a single title letter 'to better align with our brand identity' and definitely not for any other reason, guys, honest
Publisher NetworkGo says its title tweak is "a better vessel for the fantasy adventure we are building for you."
Roblox unveils new Roblox Plus monthly subscription that pays creators who get players to sign up for the new Roblox Plus monthly subscription
News Capturing half of the games industry's consumer sales growth apparently wasn't enough.
Amazon's Luna cloud gaming service is ending support for game purchases and subscriptions from third-party stores, and users will lose streaming access to purchased third-party games in June
News Luna users' previously purchased EA, Ubisoft, and GOG games will still be accessible on their associated platforms.
