Lincoln Carpenter
Lincoln started writing about games while convincing his college professors to accept his essays about procedural storytelling in Dwarf Fortress, eventually leveraging the brainworms from a youth spent in World of Warcraft to write for sites like Waypoint, Polygon, and Fanbyte. After three years freelancing for PC Gamer, he joined 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
This modder's 'final love letter to Dark Souls 2' is a massive mechanical overhaul and just the excuse I needed for a Majula homecoming
By Lincoln Carpenter published
A pile of quality-of-life changes for bearers seeking to seek lest all over again.
Hacker accused of manipulating Bitcoin prices with a fake SEC tweet was arrested after allegedly searching 'what are some signs the FBI is after you'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News My "I did not hack the SEC's X account" shirt is making people ask a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
Former Sony exec says focusing on high-budget blockbusters is 'a death sentence' for the games industry
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Ex-SIE charman Shawn Layden says an overemphasis on AAA games is "a threat to the ecosystem."
Modders achieved an unprecedented time-to-ogre by putting Shrek in Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero before its official release date
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News This fight was ogre before it even began.
The developer of Rogue Legacy has officially released its source code 'in the pursuit of sharing knowledge'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Legacy secured.
Six-shooter buffs in the latest Helldivers 2 balance patch have spawned a galaxy of Hulk-deleting Revolver Ocelots
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Six bullets. More than enough to kill anything that moves.
In its next Tron game, Bithell Games is doing a Groundhog Day on The Grid
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Time is a flat identity disc.
The top 100 PC games
By Phil Savage published
Class of 2024 Welcome to the 2024 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games around.
This homebrew plugin that lets you install GOG and Epic games on your Steam Deck is getting a standalone Steam release
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Is that allowed?
Will GTA 6 keep its 2025 release date? 20 years of Rockstar delays say probably not
By Lincoln Carpenter published
Repeat history Delays have hit every major Rockstar open world game since 2004.
Persona series director says Atlus's flashy menus are 'actually really annoying' to design
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Sometimes we suffer for our craft.
Everything we know about Crimson Desert
By Stacey Henley last updated
Blood Red The new open world action game isn't a direct sequel to Black Desert Online, but expect some similarities.
Former Bethesda and BioWare devs are making a Stardew-like with Redwall animals, and oh my god look at this little mouse farmer carry a pumpkin
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Would that we could all be a little creature doing little tasks.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard won't have an arachnophobia mode because it won't have any spiders
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News No spider swapping necessary.
Avowed: everything we know about Obsidian's next big RPG
By Lincoln Carpenter last updated
Skyrim-esque Set in the same world as Pillars of Eternity, Avowed is Obsidian's big new first-person RPG.
This pixel art road trip RPG's reveal trailer is the only thing that's ever made me nostalgic for my crappy first car
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Keep Driving won't have to tell me twice.
Steam Game Recording gets 4K and ultrawide monitor support in the latest beta update
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Embiggened.
Just as I'd made peace with my conveyor belt spaghetti, this Satisfactory player started building cathedrals
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News "What game are we playing again?"
'None of this makes any sense': Amazon's latest MMO import is a localization disaster
By Lincoln Carpenter published
EUGH Throne and Liberty spills more slop in Amazon's free-to-play trough.
A videogame patent lawyer breaks down Nintendo's risky Palworld lawsuit: 'It definitely feels like a punishment'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
patent monsters A crash course in videogame patent law and the legal minefield Nintendo's navigating by suing Pocketpair.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard will launch on Steam without the clutching, hateful tendrils of the EA app
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Perhaps there is a future worth hoping for.
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