Lincoln Carpenter
Lincoln started writing about games while convincing his college professors to accept his essays about procedural storytelling in Dwarf Fortress, eventually leveraging the brainworms from a youth spent in World of Warcraft to write for sites like Waypoint, Polygon, and Fanbyte. After three years freelancing for PC Gamer, he joined 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
PSA: The creator of PoE's foremost loot filter released an experimental 'light filter' for Path of Exile 2, just in time to help sort all the freshly buffed loot drops
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News No orb left behind.
Path of Exile 2 devs respond to the cries of the loot-starved masses, buffing drops and promising more fixes in upcoming patches
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News Dodge roll tweaks and checkpoint adjustments are also on the way.
First it was Counter-Strike, now it's GTA RP: Fortnite unveils LEGO Fortnite Brick Life, a 'social roleplay experience in the Lego Fortnite world'
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News Here we go again.
Path of Exile 2 gets its first hits with the nerf bat to bring mace slams, magnetic arrows, and stinky clouds in line: 'It is better to do this early'
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News Grinding Gear Games is wasting no time in making balance adjustments.
'Progression is awful, this is not a mobile game': The Marvel Rivals challenge-based battle pass has players begging for but an ounce of post-match XP
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News Marvel Rivals hearkens back to the darkest days of Halo Infinite.
Monster Hunter Wilds art director says Capcom's hoping 'those who became interested in World can truly become fans of the franchise' as certified Monster Hunter sickos
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News "We're really expanding on the parts that were appreciated in World and taking it even further."
Empyreal is an upcoming action RPG about carving through a giant monolith full of bad guys on your way to transcendental revelation
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News Why bother meditating on the cosmos when you have a shiny, neon mace?
Path of Exile 2 early access release date and unlock times
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Launch times Here's the launch times for the second run at Wraeclast.
Monster Hunter Wilds is running better in recent console previews, and the game director says the PC version will see 'the same level of framerate improvement'
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News "We feel you can really feel the difference in the improved framerate."
Monster Hunter Wilds: Every monster confirmed so far
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Hunter's Guide A hunting handbook for every new and returning monster.
Monster Hunter Wilds game director says the beta's missing hitstop has already been tweaked, thanks to 'very positive feedback' from hitstop-hungry veteran hunters
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News Thank god.
5 hours with Monster Hunter Wilds soothed my beta fears, but I left more impressed by its storytelling chops
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critical boost "What is a hunter?"
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has a face-melting 4 hours of cutscenes: 'This is the biggest and longest game that Machine Games have ever done'
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News It belongs in a theatrical double feature!
Blizzard is relaunching WoW: Classic with 'all-new, fresh realms,' giving players another chance to experience WoW's earliest era
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news "We are bringing you the classic Classic experience."
'Explain yourself': Old School RuneScape births a new meme as bug-exploiting scoundrels lay waste to unsuspecting F2P players with gear that shouldn't exist
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News Only PKers would defy these oldest and most sacred laws.
Palworld developer reports Nintendo's suing over 3 Pokémon patents for only $66,000 in damages, but a videogame IP lawyer says fighting the lawsuit could mean 'burning millions of dollars'
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News We finally know which patents Pocketpair and Nintendo are battling over.
Kojima Productions acquires Death Stranding IP rights, presumably meaning the series will only get more unhinged
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News Kojima and co. have full control of the franchise's future.
To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks
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News Some people are just fishing for attention.
Brighter Shores is a RuneScape successor with lots of professions and little wonder
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Overskill Work isn't worth your free time if the world isn't fun.
Capcom, if you're listening: Monster Hunter Wilds needs its hitstop back
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take a pause In the Wilds beta, the hits didn't hit right.
Ubisoft's NFT dumpster fire flares up as a matchmaking bug leaves every player connecting and losing to the same confused, unkillable guy
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News Seems like a sound investment to me.
Treyarch has nerfed Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's loathed Recon perk, meaning your wallhacks won't last quite as long after respawning
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News Activision-sanctioned x-ray vision has been reduced by an entire half-second.
The Monster Hunter Wilds beta isn't looking so hot, but Capcom says the full game 'is already in a more improved state'
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News My Palico shouldn't have to see this.
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