Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter
Palworld and No Man's Sky are intensifying their months-long flirtation, and if those two don't just kiss already, I'm going to lose my mind
News Get it over with!
WoW's haunted: Players report that their disconnected friends' characters are starting to play the game on their own
News Who's playing when the player isn't?
A dev tried to warn WB Games not to launch Lord of the Rings: War in the North 10 days before Skyrim, but was 'overruled'
News As a wise tree guy once said, "We must not be hasty."
Shoutout to this particular skeleton, who researchers believe is the first confirmed case of being totally obliterated by a trebuchet
News Mordre is so wlatsom and abhomynable.
The Lords of the End Times are landing in Total War: Warhammer 3 on September 24, and everything's coming up rat men
News And skeletons. And demons. And—well—everything bad, really.
How Stephen King watching a train hit a kid led to Kiefer Sutherland making his videogame horse crap on command: A PC Gamer Causality Chain™
🔗 Many of our greatest works are downstream of terrible woe.
In a fascinating use of free will, Old School RuneScape player spent 4,304 hours catching 275,196 shrimp and 257,064 anchovies to max out his fishing skill in the worst way possible
News "This is getting entirely too much attention."
id Software dev says mass layoffs like Microsoft's are weakening the games industry, because developers 'don't have the incentive to care anymore'
News "A lot of gamers, even if they don't know it, they can feel it's not right. There's something wrong."
Steam user data 'may have been compromised' by a cyberattack targeting Valve's European shipping partner
News An attack targeting CEVA Logistics "likely" exposed the personal information of European customers who ordered Steam hardware, Valve says.
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.
