Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter
Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used 'adversarial poetry' to trick AI into ignoring its safety guard rails and it worked 62% of the time
News Hacking the planet with florid verse.
Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie modder just released a fan patch for Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie
News Great works only die if you let them.
Hardcore space sim Ostranauts just joined the legendary patch notes canon: 'Corpses should no longer become hotter than the Sun and explode the ships/stations they are on'
News Well, there's your problem.
Monster Hunter is getting a Magic: The Gathering collab, and I think I speak for all fans of cool lizard art when I say: Hell yeah
News Shoutout to the dozen Yian Garuga enthusiasts who just had their day made.
Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says today's games suffer from trying 'to be everything for everyone' when they should be learning from '80s games: 'These games were really focused, because they had to be'
News Games are bigger than ever—but are they really better?
The Game Awards 2025 nominees are here, and—surprise—Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was nominated for every qualifying category
News Can you feel it? The distant thunder of the oncoming takes?
'I've had so many projects that have been discontinued lately': Nier creator Yoko Taro says he's been working on plenty of games—but they keep getting cancelled before he can announce them
News Lot of that going around lately.
Black Ops 7's launch day Steam player count is significantly lower than last year's Call of Duty, suggesting Arc Raiders and Battlefield 6 ate a hefty portion of its lunch
News COD fatigue might finally be taking its toll.
'We resolved this misunderstanding': Misery returns to Steam after ending its Stalker DMCA spat with GSC Game World
News Misery devs have removed a helicopter model, guitar songs, and Stalker-themed easter eggs at GSC's request.
Krafton launches voluntary resignation program weeks after declaring its 'AI-first company' future
News The Korean publisher insists this isn't workforce reduction, however.
You haven't truly experienced PC gaming until you've done these 8 things
Relatable If you know, you know.
Square Enix aims to have AI doing 70% of its QA work by the end of 2027, which seems like it'd be hard to achieve without laying off most of your QA workers
News Square Enix is partnering with an AI research lab at the University of Tokyo to "improve the efficiency of game development processes."
'You can have the loot. My reward is justice': Arc Raiders players are appointing themselves Topside Sheriffs to dispense vigilante vengeance on raiders who don't play nice
News Some of these self-appointed saviors don't have the keenest sense of where to aim their shooting iron, however.
An extremely distracting horse forced Koei Tecmo to crop a game's box art before release, artist says: 'People's eyes were drawn to the horse rather than the character'
News God forbid a horse knows its angles.
This week, Blizzcon 2026 tickets go on sale almost a year in advance—so what exactly is Blizzard going to bring?
News Aside from another Hearthstone set, of course.
'The return of baby driver': The Dwarf Fortress Siege Update briefly reintroduced an old bug where dwarf babies pilot their moms like mech suits until they die of dehydration because babies don't know what drinking is
News It has been 0 days without dwarven baby disasters.
Post-heist reports reveal the password for the Louvre's video surveillance was 'Louvre,' and suddenly the dumpster-tier opsec of videogame NPCs seems a lot less absurd
News Is leaving the safe combination on a post-it note that much worse?
Redditors painstakingly measure Battlefield maps to prove BF6's biggest battlefield is only the 26th largest map since Battlefield 3
News We weren't imagining it. The maps are small.
The Arc Raiders roadmap promises a new map in November, a fresh Raider Deck battle pass for December, and more
News Also: new, horrible robots.
Japanese patent officials reject one of Nintendo's Pokémon patent applications for being too similar to ARK, Monster Hunter, and—embarrasingly—Pokémon Go
News While not directly relevant to the ongoing Palworld lawsuit, the refusal could strengthen Pocketpair's defense.
The Vampire Survivors online co-op update just arrived with a bonus Balatro collab expansion
News Playable Jimbo! Playable Jimbo!!
Heavy breathing intensifies as Battlefield 6 players find flyable scout helicopters in Portal
News The Little Bird flies again.
Kratos voice actor Christopher Judge says he hopes the next God of War is set in Egypt while making a hypothetical sequel sound pretty unhypothetical: 'I have no doubt that no matter what pantheon it is, it will be great'
News My "Not aware of another God of War game" shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
