Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter
Monster Hunter Wilds' FF14 crossover update and Omega hunt lands on Monday, but we're still waiting until December for those much-needed performance improvements
News Don't worry—Capcom will still sell you more cosmetic DLC in the meantime.
EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes?
News "Gold all doth lure, Gold doth secure all things. Alas, we poor!"
Pocketpair announces Palfarm, a Palworld 'cozy life' farm sim spinoff where you can still give a monkey an assault rifle, but like, cozily
News I suppose coziness is relative.
9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game
News Planet Centauri suffered a bug that's affected less than 100 game releases since 2015.
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.
Team Reptile announces Hyperfunk, a Bomb Rush Cyberfunk follow-up that's '2 seconds per second of evolved funkstyle'
News That's one additional second per second of funkstyle!
Nintendo reportedly gets even more obnoxious about patent law by taking a 'mods aren't real games' stance against a Dark Souls 3 mod that could invalidate its Palworld lawsuit
News Come on, man.
If you use inverted camera controls, you might rotate shapes in your mind more slowly—but more accurately!—according to a recent neuroscience study
News To learn the mysteries of the mind, we must first rotate a cube.
Helldivers 2's new bugs are bugged, so Arrowhead's turning them off for 5 weeks to debug its bugged bugs' bugs
News Bugs!
Skate: All the key details on the skateboarding sim revival
ollie whoop Everything we know about Skate, including gameplay, and what else to expect.
This Frankenstein's monster of ARPG and battle royale from a studio founded by a former Blizzard chief creative officer is stitching together pieces of Diablo, Dark Souls, and PUBG into something new
tower of terror Arkheron is a new take on battle royale that feels surprisingly fresh in 2025.
One of the most beloved hardcore board games of all time is getting a Steam version
News All the galactic conquest, but now the friends are optional.
Silksong has sold more than 3.2 million copies on Steam in less than 2 weeks, industry analyst firm estimates
News A shaw-inspiring success.
'What a publisher should do is, first of all, make genuine games': Vampire Survivors creator says he started his own publisher because too few 'try and let the developer realize their vision'
News The progenitor of the Survivors-like genre says he "may be a bit idealistic."
Borderlands 4 has a volume slider specifically for muting Claptrap—if you're a coward
News Though I revile Claptrap, I endure him as necessary atonement.
Former Pokémon Company head lawyer says yeah, those latest Nintendo patents are a bit much, aren't they: 'I wish Nintendo and Pokémon good luck when the first other developer just entirely ignores this patent'
News The USPTO may have hurt itself in its confusion.
Our most anticipated kei truck delivery game featuring depressed Animal Crossing-esque gig workers is launching on September 18
News I've never been so excited for something so soul crushing.
'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'
News "Bad patents like this cast a massive shadow on the industry."
Former Anthem lead producer says flying in BioWare's doomed live service shooter is proof of the dysfunction in its development: 'It's Anthem's worst feature, because the consequences of flying aren't adequately taken into account'
News Flying's only so fun when it makes everything else a bit of a mess.
WotC president says he'd 'love to have' a new Dungeons & Dragons MMO, but it would have to 'rethink what an MMO is in this day and age'
News Seems easy enough.
If Silksong's corpse runs and double damage hits are too demanding, here's a pair of mods to tone down the difficulty just a notch
News Thanks, Team Cherry, but I can only give these bugs so much of my time.
Is Silksong everything we hoped? 5 PC Gamer writers react to the first hours of Team Cherry's extraordinarily hyped sequel
First notes Were those six years of Silksanity well spent?
