Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter
Making Dispatch was motivated by 'a mix of arrogance and stupidity,' its creative directors say
News Developing Dispatch meant ignoring investors and publishers who insisted it was doomed.
RuneScape's monthly membership now costs as much as a World of Warcraft subscription as Jagex announces its second price hike in less than 2 years
News Meanwhile, its annual membership is now a worse deal than ever.
Steam game listing achieves knockoff singularity by aping Pokémon, Zelda, and even Overwatch designs with a shamelessness Palworld could only dream of
News I don't feel good.
Monster Hunter Stories 3 review: An excellent monster battler bogged down by a war story without stakes
Mirror mirror War is hell, theoretically.
Stop the clock: Resident Evil Requiem's first sexy Leon mod hit Nexus Mods just 4 days, 11 hours, and 23 minutes after launch
News I'm glad we can all share this moment.
After planning 2 more paid acts, narrative scifi power-washer Ambrosia Sky is instead finishing its story in one free update to 'maximize' its focus on what players loved: 'People got in on that sapphic yearning right away'
News So much for slow burn.
Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says less is often more in game design: 'As a very wise designer once said to me, a game that includes everything is about nothing'
News As hard as it is to admit, an idea isn't necessarily worth implementing just because it sounds cool.
If you love Marathon's vectorheart style but not its PvP, get your aesthetic fix from the gorgeously overstimulating demo for this time trial FPS instead
News Tear flesh from bone.
Steam Next Fest's top demos were packed with gnomeslop hijinks, open world piracy, and vampire card battling, but then—well—Marathon happened
News Oh, and cowboy robot wizards. Can't forget those.
The New York Attorney General's Office has flipped at least one Counter-Strike knife skin on the Steam Marketplace for purposes of state
News The funds went to a good cause: Buying a Steam Deck. Also for state purposes.
An early version of Stardew Valley's mines featured an 'underground goblin village' before ConcernedApe scrapped it
News Goblin mode denied.
He directed 4 Far Cry games, but Project Windless is offering its lead developer a chance he's been waiting for his whole career: 'I never had the opportunity to work on a medieval fantasy'
News Creative director Patrik Méthé said adapting an acclaimed Korean novel series is "a great honor" and "a huge responsibility."
Project Windless creative director says the developers chose a 9-foot warlike rooster goliath as their protagonist because literally 'every candidate' interviewed to work on the game wanted to play as one: 'All of them—and we were like, OK'
News Hard to argue with that.
This co-op FPS Steam demo feels poised to do for spellslinging robot cowboys what Deep Rock Galactic did for space dwarves
News Far Far West's frantic gunfights earn a hearty yeehaw from me.
Guy accidentally takes command of 7,000 robots in the homes of 7,000 strangers while trying to control his vacuum with a gamepad
News Oops.
Discord delays its global age verification after upsetting almost everyone on Earth: 'We've made mistakes'
News Discord promises greater transparency and more verification options.
The latest Steam Next Fest features a pile of Palworld-likes as witches and airships battle over the creature-collecting survival subgenre
News I can only assume there's a Nintendo lawyer seething somewhere.
Rejoice: Arc Raiders is adding beards
News This week, Arc Raiders finally becomes a complete videogame.
Players spent roughly 10,250,000,000 monthly hours in Roblox in 2025, analyst says—more than Steam, PlayStation, and Fortnite combined
News Roblox alone accounted for 67% of the games industry's growth outside of China in 2025.
Skate is locking a map area behind a paywall after promising no map areas would be locked behind paywalls: 'We will need to make changes as we go sometimes'
News Goofy.
Dutch defense secretary says 'you can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone,' and I'm here to tell the Dutch defense secretary that this is a great opportunity to run Doom on a fighter jet
News I know there are probably bigger priorities, but come on.
Surprise: Slay the Spire 2 is bringing 4-player co-op when it hits early access on March 6
News Ah, good. An audience for my poor decisions.
Everything we know about Crimson Desert
Blood Red The new open world action game isn't a direct sequel to Black Desert Online, but expect some similarities.
Videogames are 'losing in the War for Attention': Analyst says many of the industry's biggest markets are spending less time on gaming
News It's a crowded battlefield.
US Department of Homeland Security has reportedly demanded personal information about ICE's critics from Discord, Reddit, Google, and Meta—and at least 3 of those platforms have complied
News DHS has issued hundreds of subpoenas to major online platforms to obtain the names, email addresses, and phone numbers of accountholders who criticize ICE.
