Lincoln Carpenter
Lincoln has been writing about games for 11 years—unless you include the essays about procedural storytelling in Dwarf Fortress he convinced his college professors to accept. Leveraging the brainworms from a youth spent in World of Warcraft to write for sites like Waypoint, Polygon, and Fanbyte, Lincoln spent three years freelancing for PC Gamer before joining on as a full-time News Writer in 2024, bringing an expertise in Caves of Qud bird diplomacy, getting sons killed in Crusader Kings, and hitting dinosaurs with hammers in Monster Hunter.
Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter

Great news: A guy saved an image file onto a live bird
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News A better form of cloud storage.

Monster Hunter Wilds weapon tier list
By Lincoln Carpenter last updated
HIGH RANK Our recommendations for what to wield next.

Elden Ring Nightreign is finally adding its missing duos mode on July 30
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Time for friendship.

I don't think they should make this
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?

The Battlefield 6 reveal trailer is here, and not a single helicopter is safe
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News I think I'll be staying as an infantryman, thanks.

Oh, hell yeah—this indie dev is making a Valkyria Chronicles-inspired mecha game
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Surely that's an activation phrase for some of you.

23 years after launch, Final Fantasy 11 is suspending character creation on its most popular server as it buckles beneath the weight of player congestion
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Vana'Diel's still kicking. Possibly too kicking.

Stop Killing Games is facing a complaint in the EU that uses nonsense logic to accuse the movement's founder of failing to disclose financial contributions he never made: 'It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News I don't think that's how any of this works.

Dwarf Fortress just made it easier for modders to add their own procedural creatures, items, curses, and more: 'All of these things have been hard-coded in Dwarf Fortress, inaccessible to modders. Now the algorithms and data are available'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News My productivity has never been more endangered.

John Romero says indies are the future of game development: 'These people are the ones that make triple-A studios go, 'Wait a minute, we need to start doing this''
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Finding funding for those indies is another matter.

Brace yourselves, Warframe lore heads: We're finally going to Tau in 2026
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News An end of year update, The Old Peace, will serve as a prelude to Warframe: Tau.

OpenAI just launched its new ChatGPT Agent that can make as many as 1 complicated cupcake order per hour, but even Sam Altman says you probably shouldn't trust it for 'high-stakes uses'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News What's the worst that could happen?

I'm always on the lookout for a good tile-based roguelike, and this Finnish fever dream of imps and ice trolls seems like it could have the juice
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News What can I say? I'm a sucker for "silent but all-seeing forests."

An absolute Elden Ring madlad just soloed Nightreign's most-hated boss at level 1 with the power of Sekiro parries
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News "Hesitation is defeat."

Umamusume players are engaging in unhinged summoning rituals to enlist the aid of Egyptian gods and biblically accurate angels for the release of a really good horse card
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Biblically accurate Kitasan Black isn't real and can't hurt you.

Our favorite 1v1 FPS just became our favorite 2v2 FPS, and you can still play it for the low price of free
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News And also our favorite 1v1v1v1 FPS.

'We could have, at that point, put out a s*** game': Former Deep Silver comms boss says Dead Island 2 released 8 years late because an earlier version 'would have killed the franchise' if it wasn't binned
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Dead Island 2's original developers have said the cancellation was "catastrophic."

Final Fantasy producer Yoshi-P says 'there's no clear-cut answer' to whether Final Fantasy will return to turn-based RPGs, because the direction of the next Final Fantasy will be up to the directors of the next Final Fantasy
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Weird!

Capcom celebrates the first anniversary of Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess by ripping out its Denuvo DRM
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Happy birthday!

The best co-op games to drag your pals into
By Lauren Morton last updated
Updated! The best co-op games around whether you want a co-op campaign or a hang space for your group chat.

The next Helldivers 2 warbond is going superscience sicko mode with a seven-barreled assault rifle, a plasma cannon, and a wormhole-generating backpack that lets you warp around the battlefield
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News They might be as lethal for the user as they are for the target, but that's the price of progress.

We're all trapped in a prison of our own filth, which is why I'm eyeing this little arsenal of an electronics cleaning kit that's on sale for less than $12
By Lincoln Carpenter published
Prime Day One shape. More than twenty cleaning tools. They said it couldn't be done.

The anime horse girl who's terrorizing gacha players in Umamusume is based on a real, chaotic racing horse who once instantly obliterated 12 billion yen in betting losses
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News It's Gold Ship's world. We're just living in it.
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