Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter
Just as I'd made peace with my conveyor belt spaghetti, this Satisfactory player started building cathedrals
News "What game are we playing again?"
'None of this makes any sense': Amazon's latest MMO import is a localization disaster
EUGH Throne and Liberty spills more slop in Amazon's free-to-play trough.
'Dungeon crawler' enters the Merriam-Webster dictionary alongside 'touch grass' and 200 other new words and phrases
News Sometimes language evolves. Other times, it gains a level as a dwarven fighter.
Steam's Turn-based RPG Fest is offering lots of discounts on leveling up your guys
News And just like that, roughly half my wishlist is on sale.
Starfield's Shattered Space patch fixes a modding restriction that could turn your game into a surrealist hellscape
News Also, Annihilator Rounds will no longer annihilate your companions. You're welcome.
Germany's world-first Warhammer academic conference is happening now with talks about 'authority and pluralism in the grim darkness of the far future' and 'Tyranid xenobiology'
News I knew I should've gone to grad school.
French Ubisoft employees urged to strike over new return to office policy: 'The consequence of its decision will be the loss of our colleagues' jobs'
News Ubisoft walked back its remote work policy following troubled employee negotiations.
Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo could've been planning its Pocketpair lawsuit before Palworld even released: 'If you know who you're going to go sue, you can draft claims to target them'
News Nintendo had filed amendments for its patents in the run-up to Palworld's launch.
Videogame patent lawyer says Nintendo is taking a risk with its Palworld lawsuit: 'They've exposed themselves in a big way'
News "If you're too broad, then you've given them a pathway to make the patent go away."
A videogame patent lawyer breaks down Nintendo's risky Palworld lawsuit: 'It definitely feels like a punishment'
patent monsters A crash course in videogame patent law and the legal minefield Nintendo's navigating by suing Pocketpair.
Satisfactory players achieve absurd early-game speeds by building more ziplines to zipline on while ziplining
News I live up here now.
If history can tell us anything about the Palworld patent lawsuit, it's that Nintendo's out for blood
IT'S-A BLEAK That's not a lawsuit. That's a declaration of war.
The next Black Mirror season brings Paul Giamatti, Awkwafina, Peter Capaldi, and a sequel to USS Callister
News In 2025, phones will once again be too much.
Is Nintendo suing the Palworld devs over a patent on throwing Poké Balls?
News Opening the Pal Sphere-shaped Pandora's box of patent filings.
In a rare triumph for videogame discourse, God of War Ragnarok will have a setting to reduce puzzle hints on PC
News Mimir can buy the game if he wants to play so badly.
Square Enix confirms lower-than-expected Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Final Fantasy 16 sales in newly public financial report: 'Profits unfortunately did not meet our expectations'
News "We did not manage our title portfolio across the company as well as we could have."
If Space Marine 2 left you with a 40K craving, Humble Bundle's selling 24 Space Marine books for $18
News An assortment of Astartes.
In this upcoming Netflix documentary, parents discover their son's other life in World of Warcraft after he died of a degenerative muscular disease
News Before his death, Mats Steen spent tens of thousands of hours as the dashing rogue, Ibelin.
Former Bungie lawyer says the studio's 'management failure' led to Sony 'forcing them to get their heads out of their asses'
News "It appears that Sony's inflicting some discipline on my former colleagues."
Google results insist a Bugsnax sequel is coming out next month, but there's one small problem: Its devs aren't making one
News "We are not working on a Bugsnax sequel right now and I need AI bs to stop telling kids we are."
'There's an alternate universe where Half-Life disappeared after release': Valve's first marketing strategist Monica Harrington says she helped navigate its way out of early disaster
News Publisher woes almost doomed Valve from the start.
