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

'The return of baby driver': The Dwarf Fortress Siege Update briefly reintroduced an old bug where dwarf babies pilot their moms like mech suits until they die of dehydration because babies don't know what drinking is
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News It has been 0 days without dwarven baby disasters.

Post-heist reports reveal the password for the Louvre's video surveillance was 'Louvre,' and suddenly the dumpster-tier opsec of videogame NPCs seems a lot less absurd
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Is leaving the safe combination on a post-it note that much worse?

Redditors painstakingly measure Battlefield maps to prove BF6's biggest battlefield is only the 26th largest map since Battlefield 3
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News We weren't imagining it. The maps are small.

Japanese patent officials reject one of Nintendo's Pokémon patent applications for being too similar to ARK, Monster Hunter, and—embarrasingly—Pokémon Go
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News While not directly relevant to the ongoing Palworld lawsuit, the refusal could strengthen Pocketpair's defense.

The Vampire Survivors online co-op update just arrived with a bonus Balatro collab expansion
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Playable Jimbo! Playable Jimbo!!

Heavy breathing intensifies as Battlefield 6 players find flyable scout helicopters in Portal
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News The Little Bird flies again.

Kratos voice actor Christopher Judge says he hopes the next God of War is set in Egypt while making a hypothetical sequel sound pretty unhypothetical: 'I have no doubt that no matter what pantheon it is, it will be great'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News My "Not aware of another God of War game" shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Are we all letting Valve off easy for its loot crate economy?

Tech investor declares 'AI games are going to be amazing,' posts an AI-generated 'demo' of a god-awful shooter as proof
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News 1v1 me at Canuial St.

The bouncing DVD logo screensaver is a Balatro now
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News A destiny fulfilled.

After making 1 million sales, Escape From Duckov makes eating poop less nutritious
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News The rare nerf to coprophagia.

Microsoft executives have been expecting the Xbox division to achieve 30% profit margins—almost double the industry average—since 2023
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Recent layoffs, closures, and cancellations have all been in pursuit of a seemingly unachievable target.

Escape From Duckov might look like a parody, but it's a full-fledged, full-featured singleplayer bottling of extraction shooter juice
By Lincoln Carpenter published
EXQUACKTION Don't let the meme game mask fool you.

This minimalist platformer's mouseclick parkour is singlehandedly curing my 2D platformer phobia
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News All this running and jumping stuff isn't half bad.

Former Bethesda designer says Starfield fell flat because of its reliance on procgen planets: 'I don't think it's in the same calibre as the other two, Fallout or Skyrim'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Not all great tastes go great together.

Battlefield 6 players are ragging on its 'useless' smoke mortar and its pitiful little plumes: 'I've seen 13 year olds rip vape clouds bigger than this outside of Target'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News They'll never see you coming. Unless they look.

Duck-themed extraction shooter Escape From Duckov sold 500,000 Steam copies in its first 3 days
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Duckov's peak player count rivaled the Arc Raiders playtest over the weekend.

The top 100 PC games
By Phil Savage published
Class of 2025 Welcome to the 2025 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games you can play.

So, uh, why are there suddenly at least 4 sinister convenience store simulators on Steam at once?
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Something's in the water.

The top 50 demos of Steam Next Fest feature competitive typing, first-person cigarette smoking, a giant menacing cube, and 2 convenience stores where nobody should shop
By Lincoln Carpenter published
Festivus Ours is a world of wonders.

Dwarf Fortress is getting a siege update in November with goblin battering rams and defense-destroying troll engineers that'll dismantle over a decade of dwarven siege strategy
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News The new crossbow emplacement turrets should help, though.

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.

A very silly Battlefield 6 bug is letting players levitate by smacking drones with hammers
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Fly, my pretties.
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