Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter
Finally, I can get a straight flush with cabbages: Our favorite idle farming sim just got a Balatro crossover
News Sure!
I'm so tired of being advertised at, man
Gripes week Life used to be more than this.
Anthem's former executive producer says BioWare was so good at telling stories that its original Anthem pitch convinced EA to greenlight a game it couldn't deliver: 'Maybe there wasn't anything behind the very evocative statement'
News Never write a check you can't cash.
After 10 years, there's a functioning Metal Gear Solid 5 co-op mod so you and a friend can be played like a damn fiddle together
News I'm Big Boss, and you are too.
'Touch grass, read a book, throw a ball, get tackled once in a while': Epic Games art director and OG System Shock 2 artist says the best-looking videogames are designed by people who don't just look at videogames
News "When you see really interesting work, it's because it seems to come from somewhere else."
After 3 years of bargaining with Microsoft, the Raven QA workers have secured their first union contract: 'Ratifying this contract is a win for game workers everywhere'
News After beginning their unionization effort with a strike in 2021, Raven QA testers have negotiated guaranteed raises and limits on mandatory overtime.
It's 2025 and my PC still has no idea what audio devices are connected to it
Gripes week Can anyone hear me?
Reddit's pausing its paid subreddit plans and focusing on 'making Reddit the go-to place for search,' presumably because we're all adding 'reddit' to everything we Google anyway
News Probably for the best.
The Battlefield 6 multiplayer reveal exploded roughly 1.476 helicopters per minute
News I checked.
Capcom's stock price plummets as its latest financial report shows cratering Monster Hunter Wilds sales
News After selling more than 10 million copies at launch, Wilds has only sold 477 thousand in the last quarter.
Space Marine 2 publisher says even he 'didn't believe that we could hit 7 million unique players,' but it's proof that players are hungry for sicko games: 'When the execution is right, it ends up resonating with many more people'
News Pullup Entertainment CEO Geoffroy Sardin says big budget triple-A games are suffering from "low agility to find the right audience and low creativity."
I'm a haunted Mad Max muscle car with 2 shotgun turrets in this early access vehicle combat game, and it's just as rad as it sounds
News Frankly, somebody should've let me do this sooner.
After losing $200 million on Suicide Squad, WB Games has another live service game in the works 'based on one of the iconic IPs from the vast Warner Bros. and DC Comics catalog'
News It is happening again.
Monster Hunter Wilds weapon tier list
HIGH RANK Our recommendations for what to wield next.
Elden Ring Nightreign is finally adding its missing duos mode on July 30
News Time for friendship.
The Battlefield 6 reveal trailer is here, and not a single helicopter is safe
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
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
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'
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'
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''
News Finding funding for those indies is another matter.
