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

Civilization 7 early access unlock time and release date
By Lincoln Carpenter published
Launch times Here's when you can enter the new age of making history.

Monster Hunter Wilds beta release time and rewards
By Kara Phillips last updated
Get hunting Here's what you need to know about the second Monster Hunter Wilds open beta test.

War Thunder players take a break from leaking classified information to review bomb their beloved game for adding an auction house
By Rich Stanton published
News "Give it a year and they'll have exclusive vehicles in it."

Destiny 2's latest season will run a lengthy 5 months, implying a July launch date for Frontiers
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Heresy's in-game season countdown gives us our best ETA on the next expansion.

'I feel extremely insulted by this': Platinum removes most of its games from its website, erasing the last signs of life for Project GG
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Someone's forgotten their Bayonetta Origins.

Warner Bros. says that's all, folks for Multiversus: The next season will be its last, but you'll be able to play offline 'for the foreseeable future'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Banana Guard, I hardly knew ye.

Banks in Japan are blocking Steam payments for sex games, leaving Japanese adult game devs cut off from income
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Stalled Steam profits are prompting free speech concerns.

Sometimes fashion is an XXXXXXL purse for holding an entire desktop computer that's also an advertisement for a web browser
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Sure!

This ancient city sim constantly simulates 1000 NPCs in a clockwork murder sandbox where you can poison someone's drink and leave 'confident that you've pulled off the perfect crime'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Streets of Fortuna is marching its way up my wishlist.

Destiny 2's new episode hits next week, sending players back into the giant, haunted spaceship where the first game had its finest moments
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Return of the (Taken) King.

Dauntless developer Phoenix Labs lays off 'the majority of the studio' after a year of turmoil
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News The studio's last round of mass layoffs was in May 2024.

By opting out of an open world for Avowed, Obsidian says it can give players more interesting choices to make: 'Pacing is really tough in open world games'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Constraints do foster creativity, after all.

Doom: The Dark Ages is overhauling Glory Kills so you can 'transition from melee strikes to guns to shield play to an execution' without interrupting your demonslaying momentum
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Canned animations are out, free-form finishers are in.

Dwarf Fortress finally got its roguelike Adventure Mode on Steam, so if you'll excuse me, I've got to go fire up a fresh wombat man
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Countless procedural adventures, and horrifying deaths, await!

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the surreal debut RPG from Sandfall Interactive, is out this April and I can't wait to hang out with my inscrutable balloon comrade
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News I don't know what any of this is but I'm very excited.

'I'm so sorry Imagineddy': Path of Exile 2 players unite to shower gifts on a poor, sweet soul who got yelled at for trying to buy a quiver
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Divine Orbs heal all wounds.

Destiny 2 players have found the true endgame: Composing spooky remixes on a giant gothic space organ
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Eat your heart out, Dracula.

Capcom's hoping to make the recommended specs for Monster Hunter Wilds less monstrous thanks to post-beta performance improvements
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News A hardware benchmark tool could be on the way, too.

This Path of Exile 2 build simply opts out of danger by keeping nearby enemies permanently frozen in time
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Set movement to no.

Undaunted by mixed Steam reviews, Hyper Light Breaker dev says it's 'encouraging' to have 'extremely reasonable' early access feedback
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News "Expect improvements ASAP."

Path of Exile 2's first big patch of 2025 is here, bringing new maps, quality of life tweaks, unique item and monster rebalancing, and—let's see—improved visuals for 'Chaos Pustules'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News GGG's sanding down the rough edges to make way for bigger reworks.

New report says PC games are outselling console games, calling PC gaming a 'bright spot' in a troubled industry
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Everything's coming up computers.

Elden Ring geographer tests rigorous calculation against weed-fueled horse math to determine the exact size of The Lands Between
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News It's like they always say: Cannabis and cartographic analysis don't mix.
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