Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter
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.
Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up'
News Projects like Godot are being swamped by contributors who may not even understand the code they're submitting.
Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel
News Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel's Founders Fund.
Brace for more Belmont: Konami says Castlevania: Belmont's Curse is just 'the beginning of numerous new products around Castlevania'
News What a wonderful night to have a curse!
I can now say I've been killed by a nonogram thanks to this roguelike that turns Picross into a dungeon crawler
News I always knew I'd go out this way.
One of the best-reviewed new games on Steam right now is about feeding raccoons and cryptids with the cosmic, Lynchian oven of your eerie woodland house
News It's the neighborly thing to do.
Valve isn't putting Gordon Freeman into any new games, so Deadlock modders have taken matters into their own hands
News Close enough, welcome back Half-Life.
Dwarf Fortress forensic specialists blame mysterious case of spontaneous human combustion on a historical artifact that suddenly remembered it's four times hotter than the surface of the sun
News It's always right when you get back home from a road trip that you realize you've been carrying a thermonuclear hazard.
Relooted is a fine heist game—but it's a better history lesson
DETHIEVED Correcting dark historic wrongs can feel surprisingly bright.
Players discover once again that World of Warcraft is powered by invisible bunnies that make everything work
News Great truths are only briefly forgotten.
Here's what happens if you don't complete Discord age verification
age appropriate If you don't want to give Discord your details, here's what you'll lose access to when teen-by-default settings hit.
Build A Rocket Boy dumpster fire flares up in exciting new ways as its co-CEO reportedly claims the 'guys who've been sabotaging MindsEye' have been identified—and will be demonized via an in-game spy mission
News You can say and do all kinds of things when you're running a company.
'I'm going to be sick': Arc Raiders players react with an appropriate level of revulsion after discovering Embark committed the cardinal sin of placing a stop sign in a weird spot
News Adherence to Italy's Regolamento di Esecuzione e di Attuazione del Nuovo Codice della Strada is no laughing matter.
Nioh 3 director says Lies of P was a major source of inspiration while crafting the samurai soulslike's yokai bosses: 'It was great stimulation'
News Shoutout to puppets.
Turkish government proposes legislation that would throttle Steam and other gaming platforms into unusability if they don't comply with demands for company data and content removal
News Companies that fail to deliver their information within five days would face escalating fines and up to 90% bandwidth restriction.
Helldivers 2 has a tank now
News Alright, it's technically a tank destroyer. Sorry, tank enthusiasts.
Civilization 7 players can once again play as a single civilization in a massive overhaul update that's 'tentatively' coming in spring: 'Together, these updates are similar in scope to an expansion'
News To hold us over in the meantime, Firaxis added everyone's best friend: Gilgamesh.
