Luke Winkie is a freelance journalist and contributor to many publications, including PC Gamer, The New York Times, Gawker, Slate, and Mel Magazine. In between bouts of writing about Hearthstone, World of Warcraft and Twitch culture here on PC Gamer, Luke also publishes the newsletter On Posting. As a self-described "chronic poster," Luke has "spent hours deep-scrolling through surreptitious Likes tabs to uncover the root of intra-publication beef and broken down quote-tweet animosity like it’s Super Bowl tape." When he graduated from journalism school, he had no idea how bad it was going to get.
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Report Women in the competitive scene told the company it had failed to tackle toxicity and representation issues.

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Abe Returns A beautiful presentation, but glitchy in a frustrating way.

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Bee's Knees Seize The Show, an interactive Zoom-based play, is like the weird pandemic equivalent of an FMV game.

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⚖ Who's been suing whom in the games industry this decade.

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ALT+F4 Inspired by Snoop Dogg, here are seven others who decided they'd had exactly enough in the middle of a stream.

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Upscaled Maquette pairs a novel puzzle-solving apparatus with a plaintive romance saga.

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Past Present The OG pros and streamers can't wait for the launch of Hearthstone Classic, but how long will the nostalgia last?

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Interview Next up in The Realm Beyond project: new facial expressions, technical fixes, and colorblind modes.

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EUREKA One-of-a-kind artwork earns Tohu a strong recommendation.

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SPLAT Meat Boy's long-awaited sequel doesn't muster the same joy as its predecessor.

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RUTHLESS Five years later, Dead by Daylight features the most interesting cat-and-mouse multiplayer you can play.

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Pocket Monsters Impressions of Blizzard's mobile action RPG from the technical alpha.

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Surly Mob Despite adjustments to the rewards system, the controversy over cost is set to continue.

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Hide and Seek A charming stealth game that can't quite scratch out its own niche.

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:HeyGuys: What it means when 4Head, CoolStoryBob, Kappa, PogChamp, and other Twitch emotes are spammed in the chat.

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Gone rogue A competitive roguelike? It works surprisingly well.

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Burnt out Torchlight 3 gets the combat right, but many of its supporting features are lackluster.

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review Noita offers destructive sorcery action in a fun, albeit messy roguelike package.

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Clear! Surgeon Simulator 2 has even less to do with surgery than its predecessor. It's also a much better game.

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NO GAIN Madden 21 introduces some exciting new ideas, but the rest of it feels stuck in the mud.

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Interview No more stats, a more focused arsenal, but a whole lot of demon blood.

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Interview The upcoming action RPG marries Diablo loot grinding, Streets of Rage sidescrolling, and Warframe metagame persistence.

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