Lincoln Carpenter
Lincoln has been writing about games for 11 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

To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Some people are just fishing for attention.

Brighter Shores is a RuneScape successor with lots of professions and little wonder
By Lincoln Carpenter published
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
By Lincoln Carpenter published
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
By Lincoln Carpenter published
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
By Lincoln Carpenter published
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'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News My Palico shouldn't have to see this.

The Monster Hunter Wilds beta drew almost half a million concurrent Steam players in the first hour
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News If I was a Doshaguma, I'd start running.

To 'appease the people who thought the game was too long,' an Alien: Isolation modder trimmed the campaign length down to a svelte 46 seconds
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Game over (quickly), man!

The director of World of Warcraft documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin says it's 'a coming of age story': 'We're trying to capture a human being'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Netflix's WoW documentary captures moments from a man's other life in Azeroth, discovered by his parents after his death.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard unlock times
By Lincoln Carpenter published
Launch times Know exactly when Dragon Age: The Veilguard is playable in your timezone.

Mass Effect director says the next game won't feature any Veilguard-style aesthetic switchups: 'Mass Effect is photorealistic and will be as long as I'm running it'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News "Mass Effect will maintain the mature tone of the original trilogy."

The next Helldivers 2 Warbond is going full baddies mode with armor and weaponry from the Ministry of Truth
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Nothing says freedom like imposing crimson armor plating.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 includes an arachnophobia setting that plucks all the zombie spiders' legs and leaves them as floating, horrible leeches
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News I guess that's an improvement, sure.

A former Nvidia employee discovered the world's largest known prime number and all it took was some free software and a few thousand datacenter GPUs
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Congratulations to (2^136,279,841)-1 on your newly-confirmed prime status.

'It is an affront to God': Fans react with horror and delight as Monster Hunter Wilds unveils its nastiest freak yet
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Get my hammer.

The latest Cities: Skylines 2 patch addresses homelessness and pollution issues in an already-fraught election year
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Sadly, the pollution's been addressed by making it worse.

Will these PC games ever come to Steam? We predict the chances of WoW, Minecraft, and more
By Lincoln Carpenter published
prophet margins Get on your soothsaying hats. We're predicting futures.

Caves of Qud, our favorite science fantasy roguelike where you can clone, befriend, and eat yourself, is leaving early access in December after 15 years of development
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Qud's 1.0 release will add its storyline's final chapter, a new tutorial, and—if I had to guess—a few interdimensional horrors.

This modder's 'final love letter to Dark Souls 2' is a massive mechanical overhaul and just the excuse I needed for a Majula homecoming
By Lincoln Carpenter published
A pile of quality-of-life changes for bearers seeking to seek lest all over again.

Hacker accused of manipulating Bitcoin prices with a fake SEC tweet was arrested after allegedly searching 'what are some signs the FBI is after you'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News My "I did not hack the SEC's X account" shirt is making people ask a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

Former Sony exec says focusing on high-budget blockbusters is 'a death sentence' for the games industry
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Ex-SIE charman Shawn Layden says an overemphasis on AAA games is "a threat to the ecosystem."

Modders achieved an unprecedented time-to-ogre by putting Shrek in Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero before its official release date
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News This fight was ogre before it even began.

The developer of Rogue Legacy has officially released its source code 'in the pursuit of sharing knowledge'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Legacy secured.
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