Lincoln Carpenter

Lincoln Carpenter

News Writer

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

Genghis Khan is a triumphant pose in Civ 7.
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.

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A player battles a zombie peasant in Heathen.
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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The Reclaimer character classes in Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core.
Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core launch times and release date

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

LAUNCH TIMES Management's calling in the big guns.

LAUNCH TIMES
A subnautica 2 player character sitting in a chair with their hands tented in contemplation.
Don't expect to kill fish in a future Subnautica 2 patch: 'You are here to exist on this planet, not to dominate it'

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Unknown Worlds says it doesn't want players to become "the conquering colonist."

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A diver hanging off the side of a submersible craft in Subnautica 2.
Subnautica 2's early access roadmap promises quality-of-life additions, co-op improvements, and—eventually—new biomes and creatures

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

The ocean's got room for more.

Survival & Crafting
Karen Prell speaks onstage during the 2022 Children's & Family Emmys at Wilshire Ebell Theatre on December 11, 2022 in Los Angeles, California; Wheatley from Portal 2
We can thank a Jim Henson Company puppeteer for some of Valve's best animation work

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News TF2, Left 4 Dead, and Portal have some Fraggle Rock in them.

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A trio of Tiger Warriors in Total War: Warhammer 3.
Total War: Warhammer 3 pushes the giant tiger people button next week

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Grand Cathay players can soon command Bhashiva and the Tiger Warriors.

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A scuba diver
Subnautica 2 pulls over 370,000 concurrent players in its first 30 minutes on Steam as it cannonballs into early access

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News We might need a bigger ocean.

News
The Sphinx grinning
Capcom says it's eyeing Devil May Cry, Ace Attorney, Dragon's Dogma for 'sequels, remakes, ports, etc.', and I'll gladly take the excuse to get my hopes up

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Dragon's Dogma mentioned!

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A Subnautica 2 diver smiling at a collected artifact.
Subnautica 2 devs say it's 'bigger and more polished' than any of the studio's previous early access launches

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Unknown Worlds is eager to collaborate with its community once again.

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P parries a giant industrial digger in Motorslice.
One of the best rated games on Steam this week is an action platformer where you can parry a giant industrial digger with a chainsaw

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News It is, admittedly, a pretty good pitch.

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Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic - Wet face
Former NetEase exec's new investment group is funding Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic because 'everyone wins' if you 'give the best creator the opportunity to work on a dream project'

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News After raising $100 million, GreaterThan Group is also funding a shooter from former Black Ops design director David Vonderhaar.

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Players prepare to face a dragon in Erenshor's raid update.
Singleplayer simulated MMO Erenshor is getting raids this summer

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

Exclusive You'll be able to join 14 computer-controlled players in an endgame loot grind.

Exclusive
The titular planetary cannon of PVKK.
Anticipated supercannon sim PVKK delayed until 2027, but for the kind of reason you want to hear

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News This just gives us more time to weigh the ethical implications of operating giant weaponry for the baddies.

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The Discord logo is displayed on a smartphone screen and on a computer screen in Athens, Greece, on April 17, 2024. (Photo Illustration by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Update: Discord says it's 'seeing significant recovery' after a partial outage

By Wes Fenlon Published

news If you can't start up Discord, it's not just you.

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Key art for Blood Vial showing a vampire with a revolver and the titular leaking vial.
This bloody vampire FPS with Splatoon movement tech is the best $5 I've spent on Steam this week

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Sometimes making a mess is a good thing.

News
Confucius as he appears in Civilization 7.
Civ 7 is getting 'by far the most-requested addition' later this month, but I'm more interested in whether it'll finally feel fully baked

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Firaxis says the massive Test of Time update is Civ 7's "biggest and most fundamentally game-changing."

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A loaf of bread scored with an X used in place of the Xbox logo.
Xbox creator becomes first console designer to bake bread using wild yeast illicitly collected from Microsoft campus

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News At least one Xbox culture is thriving.

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Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic - Figure in smoke
Surprise: The studio making Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic is full of former BioWare devs

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

Nobody could have foreseen this.

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A robot cowboy emotes in Far Far West.
Far Far West is a surprise hit on Steam, but its players have one demand: A yeehaw button

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Give these robot cowboys the voice they deserve.

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A diver terrified in Subnautica 2.
Subnautica 2's lead game designer says it helped cure his sea terror—only for its new apex ocean predator to give him all-new phobias: 'This is going to make many people sad and scared'

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Subnautica 2 is inventing new reasons to fear squids.

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A player scans an alien fish in Subnautica 2.
Subnautica 2 devs say it's 'an exploration game first,' expanding on the first game's 'masterclass' in player-driven discovery

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Subnautica 2 features a new world and new ocean, but its devs hope it offers a familiar sense of wonder.

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Power washing an X-wing in Power Wash Simulator 2's Star Wars pack.
PowerWash Simulator 2 is getting Star Wars DLC, and it's about time somebody's focusing on the most important part of the galaxy far, far away

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Assuming I don't need to clean the Jedi temple after a certain bad night.

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Leon Kennedy staring
Resident Evil Requiem has sold 7 million copies in 2 months—a milestone that took the RE4 remake a year

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Capcom celebrated the milestone with two delightful cakes.

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A party of robot cowboys brandish their guns in Far Far West.
Developers of Steam Next Fest's wildly popular robot wizard cowboy shooter say its cowboy robots are also wizards because 'magic is always cool'

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Hard to argue with that.

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