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.
Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter

There's suddenly a terrifying number of games releasing this fall
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News I'm going to need to fit a few extra weeks into September somehow.

Everything announced at Xbox Games Showcase 2026
By Lincoln Carpenter last updated
RECAP Here's your recap of Microsoft's reveals.

Wielders of the Essence is revolutionizing the bullet heaven genre by letting you play as swamp-dwelling amphibians instead of vamp-hunting Italians
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News No frog fights alone.

Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance caps off Capcom's redemption arc with a 'massive' expansion in 2027
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News So many promising new lizard faces to hit with hammers.

Bandai Namco is pitting Gundams against kaiju in 2027
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Gundam Rogue Orbit's enemies are definitely no Zaku, boy.

ArenaNet announces Guild Wars 3, promising 'an entirely new type of MMO experience'
By Tyler Wilde published
news The MMO takes place 1,000 years before Guild Wars, and boasts a "one-of-a-kind movement system."

I regret to inform you that you almost certainly overlooked a sick as hell shrimp game on Steam last month
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News There's still time to correct this grievous error.

'What was unravelling is suddenly stabilizing': Destiny 2's last update is getting an absurd 71 pages of patch notes, but its story is closing with a shrug
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News At least that big, beautiful orb is back where it belongs.

They did motion capture on a cube
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News God of War Laufey necessitated an exciting new form of method acting.

Marathon's first 'PvP-lite' experimental mode sounds like a delightfully terrifying alternative
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Just your squad, hostile NPCs, and an escalating number of Rook chaos agents.

Bungie devs have resurrected an obscene amount of guns for Destiny 2's final update: 'My body physically hurts from the amount of items we were updating'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Kindled Orchid. Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

Balatro publisher Playstack could soon belong to the same private equity firm that owns Fandom and GameSpot
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Playstack CEO Harvey Elliott says "for now, it's business as usual."

In a bittersweet return to form, Destiny 2's final update is giving players reasons to roam its public zones once again
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News I'll see you planetside.

This week's most compelling Steam demo is a torment engine disguised as golf
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Normal Golf Game offers a tantalizing brand of misery.

Steam Workshop now looks like it was designed in this decade
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Workshop just got a fancy UI update, fresh out of the beta branch.

As its retirement looms, Destiny 2 is still the gold standard for joyous gunplay
By Lincoln Carpenter published
SWORD LOGIC Even now, shotgun wizards remain unbeatable.

Destiny 2 players are processing their grief by posting their most embarrassing self-owns, and I've never felt more seen
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News This is Destiny, to me.

Former Bungie dev says 'you'd be surprised how many times' expansions were pitched for a fan-favorite Destiny archvillain who's now left hanging
By Lincoln Carpenter published
Xivu Arath, we hardly knew ye.

Alright, so maybe Zohran Mamdani isn't New York's first gamer mayor
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News It was nice to dream.

Destiny 2 hasn't been the game I'd loved in years, but it still sucks to know it's ending
By Lincoln Carpenter published
Ghost shells For a time, Destiny 2 was a masterclass in all kinds of gameplay, and only some of them involved pressing keys.

Playing a murderous ratman in this newly-announced Warhammer platformer is my penance for bisecting thousands of Skaven over the years
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Deathmaster puts us on the other side of the Vermintide.

Civ 7's massive overhaul update brings its highest Steam player count in over a year
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Initial reactions to the Test of Time update are mixed, however.

This indie dev's dungeon crawling 'descent into madness' was inspired by motherly love
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Shoutout to moms.
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