Every game is about Goku eventually

A modded Goku sitting on the subway in Marvel's Spider-Man. — (Image credit: PlayStation Publishing)

A game has two launch dates: The first time it's available for the general public to play, and the first time somebody puts Goku in it.

(For Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered, the latter was September 3, 2022, thanks to this mod from Nexus Mods user emribilemir.)

Lincoln has been writing about games for 12 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.