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

Avowed: everything we know about Obsidian's next big RPG
By Lincoln Carpenter last updated
Skyrim-esque Set in the same world as Pillars of Eternity, Avowed is Obsidian's big new first-person RPG.

With Adventure mode squared away, Dwarf Fortress is entering a 'new era of development' as its devs shift focus toward future features
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Today, fruit. Tomorrow, sorcery.

To make its fantasy extraction game, this studio of ex-Blizzard devs had to teach itself the art of third-person combat design: 'There's a science to how those are built'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News In Legacy: Steel & Sorcery, "combat is king."

Discord finally adds an Ignore feature so you can gently silence someone's rancid vibes
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News At last: a better way to shun.

Monster Hunter Wilds beta multiplayer guide: How to hunt with your buddies
By Lincoln Carpenter published
party time Every hunter's greatest test is finding their friends.

Monster Hunter wilds beta: How to defeat Doshaguma
By Lincoln Carpenter published
party crashing Send these pack monsters packing.

Unique items in Path of Exile 2 need to take more inspiration from Grim Dawn's diarrhea pants
By Lincoln Carpenter published
Itemized complaints Husk of Dreams indeed.

Civilization 7 early access unlock time and release date
By Lincoln Carpenter published
Launch times Here's when you can enter the new age of making history.

Monster Hunter Wilds beta release time and rewards
By Kara Phillips last updated
Get hunting Here's what you need to know about the second Monster Hunter Wilds open beta test.

War Thunder players take a break from leaking classified information to review bomb their beloved game for adding an auction house
By Rich Stanton published
News "Give it a year and they'll have exclusive vehicles in it."

Destiny 2's latest season will run a lengthy 5 months, implying a July launch date for Frontiers
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Heresy's in-game season countdown gives us our best ETA on the next expansion.

'I feel extremely insulted by this': Platinum removes most of its games from its website, erasing the last signs of life for Project GG
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Someone's forgotten their Bayonetta Origins.

Warner Bros. says that's all, folks for Multiversus: The next season will be its last, but you'll be able to play offline 'for the foreseeable future'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Banana Guard, I hardly knew ye.

Banks in Japan are blocking Steam payments for sex games, leaving Japanese adult game devs cut off from income
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Stalled Steam profits are prompting free speech concerns.

Sometimes fashion is an XXXXXXL purse for holding an entire desktop computer that's also an advertisement for a web browser
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Sure!

This ancient city sim constantly simulates 1000 NPCs in a clockwork murder sandbox where you can poison someone's drink and leave 'confident that you've pulled off the perfect crime'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Streets of Fortuna is marching its way up my wishlist.

Monster Hunter Wilds: Every monster confirmed so far
By Lincoln Carpenter last updated
Hunter's Guide A hunting handbook for every new and returning monster.

Destiny 2's new episode hits next week, sending players back into the giant, haunted spaceship where the first game had its finest moments
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Return of the (Taken) King.

Dauntless developer Phoenix Labs lays off 'the majority of the studio' after a year of turmoil
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News The studio's last round of mass layoffs was in May 2024.

By opting out of an open world for Avowed, Obsidian says it can give players more interesting choices to make: 'Pacing is really tough in open world games'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Constraints do foster creativity, after all.

Doom: The Dark Ages is overhauling Glory Kills so you can 'transition from melee strikes to guns to shield play to an execution' without interrupting your demonslaying momentum
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Canned animations are out, free-form finishers are in.

Dwarf Fortress finally got its roguelike Adventure Mode on Steam, so if you'll excuse me, I've got to go fire up a fresh wombat man
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Countless procedural adventures, and horrifying deaths, await!

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the surreal debut RPG from Sandfall Interactive, is out this April and I can't wait to hang out with my inscrutable balloon comrade
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News I don't know what any of this is but I'm very excited.
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