Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter
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.
We haven't even gotten over the sting of $70 games and now Nintendo's asking people to pay $80 for Mario Kart
opinion Could the $80 standard come to PC next?
The Monster Hunter Wilds update added a big, beautiful bird who gives you free stuff, and players are already worshipping it as a benevolent god
News Willingly do I pledge myself to the Gigacrake.
Based on Capcom's spotty patch history, you might want to back up your Monster Hunter Wilds save before Title Update 1 hits
PSA Here's how to have a spare copy of your hunter, just in case.
I don't know if Sunderfolk can replace tabletop RPGs, but its smartphone controls feel like a great alternative if your DM's too exhausted to run a campaign
ALT CTRL RPG It's not pen and paper, but it's pretty damn good.
South of Midnight early access launch times and release date
Launch times Here's when you can get Weaving.
Capcom says it will 'take action against any fraudulent ranking activity' if Monster Hunter Wilds cheaters goof up the arena quest leaderboards
News What is a hunter without sportsmanship?
A 60-year-old videogame just hit its highest player count ever on Steam and I'm pretty sure it's because people are pirating Schedule 1
News Are 100,000 people playing something called Spacewar? Probably not.
The 33 best Minecraft skins to give your avatar a cool new look
Dress sense Check out the 33 best Minecraft skins based on video games, anime, and even a few memes.
I expected a Genshin clone before playing this upcoming MMO spinoff of a massive Chinese MOBA, but the depth of its hot-swappable combat styles proved me wrong
STYLIZED Honor of Kings: World made a surprising first impression.
Swen Vincke says fan mods 'shouldn't be treated like commercial ventures that infringe on your property' just hours before Wizards of the Coast retracts its BG3 Stardew mod takedown
News Karlach would hate all this.
Dwarf Fortress dwarves are 'more human than human,' creator says: 'They're allowed to embody bigger emotions. They're allowed to make bigger mistakes. They're allowed to do anything'
News Dwarves embody the universal human urge to wade into a flooded tunnel in search of dinner.
After 23 years of making Dwarf Fortress, even its creator is still 'terrified' of drowning all his dwarves with aquifers: 'Part of the problem is we are just not good at videogames'
News Water hazards keep us all humble.
Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime's new company is putting Sea of Thieves-style shenanigans in space with a new crew-based shooter
News Wildgate looks like some promising space piracy.
Dwarf Fortress' creator is so tired of hearing about AI: 'Press a button and it writes a really sh*tty, wrong essay about something—and they still take your job'
News Sighing at the slop.
After 17 years, devs of the only roguelike where players ask 'the best way to get the most limbs' can't believe its success: 'More people have bought Caves of Qud than are in this stadium, how do you reckon with that?'
News Limber up.
Oh my God, it's happening: Monster Hunter Wilds is finally bringing a fan-favorite sea snake home from the war
News Huge day for Lagiacrus enjoyers.
Despite making a roguelike where you can have countless arms and legs, Caves of Qud's creators say the ideal form is a limbless sphere: 'We started in perfection and only moved farther from God'
News That's about what I expected.
In this airship-building survival game, I faced an enemy worth punching trees over: 'The hubris of man'
News I don't know if you can destroy mankind's wretched ambition with cannonballs, but I'm certainly going to try.
Helldivers 2 CCO Johan Pilestedt says the industry's got it backwards by putting features over fundamentals: 'We talk way too little about the core philosophy'
News Visualise, then execute.
Johan Pilestedt warns that Helldivers 2 took 4 more years than planned because Arrowhead skipped pre-production and dove right in: 'Always do your homework before you start spending millions and millions and millions of dollars in making a game'
NEWS Sound advice, but easier said than done.
Helldivers 2's Johan Pilestedt says developers need to start taking more risks: 'Safe bets are a death sentence for the studios that try to make them'
news Pilestedt says the game industry has a "convergence problem," and it won't find sustainable success until it breaks out of it.
Arrowhead’s CEO got a call from PlayStation when he said players could save their money and wait to buy Helldivers 2 until the servers were fixed: They ‘asked me what the f*** I’m smoking’
News It’s said you should always be closing, even on Super Earth.
The United Nations asked Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead if it'd give a talk on psychological manipulation: ‘Could we brainwash an entire community to fight for a fascist state? … Would we be okay with that? Turns out, yeah’
News Players’ eagerness in the fight for Super Earth begs the question: are we the baddies?
