Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter
Tech investor declares 'AI games are going to be amazing,' posts an AI-generated 'demo' of a god-awful shooter as proof
News 1v1 me at Canuial St.
After making 1 million sales, Escape From Duckov makes eating poop less nutritious
News The rare nerf to coprophagia.
Microsoft executives have been expecting the Xbox division to achieve 30% profit margins—almost double the industry average—since 2023
News Recent layoffs, closures, and cancellations have all been in pursuit of a seemingly unachievable target.
Escape From Duckov might look like a parody, but it's a full-fledged, full-featured singleplayer bottling of extraction shooter juice
EXQUACKTION Don't let the meme game mask fool you.
This minimalist platformer's mouseclick parkour is singlehandedly curing my 2D platformer phobia
News All this running and jumping stuff isn't half bad.
Former Bethesda designer says Starfield fell flat because of its reliance on procgen planets: 'I don't think it's in the same calibre as the other two, Fallout or Skyrim'
News Not all great tastes go great together.
Battlefield 6 players are ragging on its 'useless' smoke mortar and its pitiful little plumes: 'I've seen 13 year olds rip vape clouds bigger than this outside of Target'
News They'll never see you coming. Unless they look.
Duck-themed extraction shooter Escape From Duckov sold 500,000 Steam copies in its first 3 days
News Duckov's peak player count rivaled the Arc Raiders playtest over the weekend.
The top 100 PC games
Class of 2025 Welcome to the 2025 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games you can play.
So, uh, why are there suddenly at least 4 sinister convenience store simulators on Steam at once?
News Something's in the water.
The top 50 demos of Steam Next Fest feature competitive typing, first-person cigarette smoking, a giant menacing cube, and 2 convenience stores where nobody should shop
Festivus Ours is a world of wonders.
Dwarf Fortress is getting a siege update in November with goblin battering rams and defense-destroying troll engineers that'll dismantle over a decade of dwarven siege strategy
News The new crossbow emplacement turrets should help, though.
The best co-op games to drag your pals into
Updated! The best co-op games around whether you want a co-op campaign or a hang space for your group chat.
A very silly Battlefield 6 bug is letting players levitate by smacking drones with hammers
News Fly, my pretties.
'Scottish dark fantasy Dynasty Warriors' sounds like a game pitch from a fever dream, but this roguelike demo proves it's got juice
News A better kind of braveheart.
Steam Next Fest's most popular demo is an old Half Sword tech playtest, which just proves the timeless appeal of physics-based swordfights
News The people love a melee.
Road to Vostok finally has a playable demo on Steam and it's the most terrified I've ever been of getting shot at in a videogame
News I'm just looking for cans of soup, man!
Update: EA is deploying a fix for the 'missing content' and 'purchase to play' errors locking EA App users out of Battlefield 6
News EA says the fix should "be completed within the next hour or so."
EA is charging Skate players $35 for a cardboard Dead Space skin and it took me 40 straight minutes of game crashes to confirm it
News The revenue must flow.
After warring with fans for years, Black Ops 7 will finally ditch aggressive skill-based matchmaking: 'Our team feels strongly about providing players with a more varied experience'
News A triumph for pubstompers everywhere.
It's a great year for Battlefield 6 multiplayer, but the campaign's a misfire
PASS ARMATA If BF6 is 2025's CoD-killer, it won't be because of the singleplayer.
Founder of Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud publisher Kitfox Games says its procgen sims for sickos are 'giving storytelling tools back to the people when games and passive media took them away'
News Streets of Fortuna, Kitfox's own in-development "megasim," is chasing that same systems-driven storytelling.
