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.
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News "A lot of gamers, even if they don't know it, they can feel it's not right. There's something wrong."

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News An attack targeting CEVA Logistics "likely" exposed the personal information of European customers who ordered Steam hardware, Valve says.

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News Rockstar's parent company believes cloud gaming will grow its customer base even as hardware prices rise.

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News Wilds didn't rank in Capcom's quarterly best sellers, but the company hopes to turn that around.

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News A videogame IP attorney says the filings are "far from a promise that the next Kingdom Come videogame will feature multiplayer."

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News Two months after it entered purgatory, Destiny 2's community archaeologists are creating tools for exploring its long-absent worlds.

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News The international spirit of baseball and friendship might frown on the method, though.

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News The feature is expected to get a "gradual" launch between 2027 and 2028.

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News Technically, it shed its Web3 functionality in May, but it didn't seem to help much.

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News When in doubt, do your own DPS and round up.

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News Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any code that is not of fine quality.

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News Prospice: Anomalous Logistics simulates the canonical deliveryman experience of having your dreambody dissolved in the labyrinth of collective death.

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News Palworld's bosses should be a bit more predictable.

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News The Stonetalon Mountains are up to their old tricks again.

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News Booksellers say they're facing a sudden surge of orders for seemingly random rare books—and fear they might be profiting from their destruction.

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News Sjoerd De Jong aims to combat game development "stagnation" he says has emerged from Epic and Unity market dominance.

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News Little-known platformer Crashphalt is enjoying an unexpected popularity—but its players are enjoying something else.

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News Not a good sign when official patent office communications hit you with a snarky clapback.

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News An April 2026 study indicates LLMs display a "disproportionate prominence of Japan" when asked questions about culture.

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News Future? No Thanks! is the latest game to get caught up in Steam's ambiguous content guidelines.

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News Cryo Archive is open for all, for a limited time.

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News Is that good?

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News Just in case that's of interest to you.
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