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.
Latest articles by Luke Winkie

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Cha-ching! The Lazy Goldmaker has turned his penchant for making exorbitant amounts of gold into a business all its own.

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Mind Control For all the jokes about a 'children’s card game', some very smart people are now playing Hearthstone competitively.

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Catacylsm For better and for worse, Cataclysm was the expansion that changed everything. And these people prefer it that way.

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Exclusive Creative character building takes the spotlight in this free-to-play asymmetrical action-RPG from ex-BioWare devs.

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Exclusive Exclusive: Breach promises RPG-like depth, an open class system, and third-person action mechanics.

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Sick Combo The deck might not be good, but pulling it off is easily the most convoluted way to make your opponent rage quit.

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Safety Madden 19 marks the franchise's return to PC after more than a decade, no worse for wear.

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Semblance An inside look at the highs and lows of trying to make it on Steam with a platformer like Semblance.

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Jammin Acai makes popular videos with the Guitar Hero versions of ROM hacks: custom songs designed to be brutally hard.

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Bad wins When it really, really felt good to be bad.

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Whispers Dark Souls ASMR is a thing, and we spoke to one if its creators.

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Bang It's a nice day for (shooting up) a white wedding.

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Vamping Seriously, these swords are very big.

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All terrain We check out the Britain-set racing game's E3 demo.

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Kamehameha Sorry-not-sorry for making Jump Force my own personal anime torture device.

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Digging it Seven years later, Terraria is still one of the best adventures out there.

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Headshot Shroud's retirement at 23 holds a message for the esports scene: for the fearsomely talented, streaming on Twitch is a more lucrative career.

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Interview The multiplayer social espionage game that's taken nine years to make, and still isn't done.

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28x28 "Never settle for less than minimum wage," says illustrator Allison Henderson.

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Noodling The Tempo Storm entrepreneur, Twitch globetrotter, and these days only sometime ladder salt lord now has his own deck-builder in development.

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Heavy If everyone hates being over-encumbered, why do so many big games still rely on it to keep your inventory under control?

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Time Machine What it's like to play vintage EverQuest in 2018.

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News At the very least, the absurdly long animations have got to go.
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