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

Let's all just pretend that the Borderlands 4 reveal came at a better time
By Lincoln Carpenter published
Oof Timing can be tragic.

Riddlemaster Randy Pitchford says the Borderlands 4 teaser contains 'several secrets'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News You must solve my riddles three, ere you see guns generated procedurally

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 imagines a medieval Europe that's mostly swords in its latest Gamescom gameplay teaser
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News I'd stay home in my hovel.

The First Berserker: Khazan shows off its angry anime Conan in a new Gamescom trailer
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News What is best in life? Seeking vengeance alongside a hateful ghost.

Monster Hunter Wilds reveals a horrifying spider and an electric apex predator in its Gamescom trailer
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News So tasty!

We can finally get our hands on Path of Exile 2 when it hits early access this November
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Loot awaits.

Larian released a teaser for the new evil endings coming in Baldur's Gate 3's next patch, and they really weren't kidding about the evil part
By Lincoln Carpenter published
I'll say it: This Dark Urge fella seems like bad news.

Runescape's latest content roadmap includes group ironman mode, a new skilling boss, and exciting advancements in woodcutting
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Jagex reveals its update plans through early 2025.

Black Myth: Wukong review roundup: 'An interesting and exciting reimagining'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
Review roundup Lovely visuals and lively boss fights earn praise for the Monkey King.

The next Stellaris expansion will let your space empires harness 'the majesty and menace' of new cosmic storms, which I'm sure can only go well
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News These Twister sequels are getting out of hand.

Some of the world's biggest game companies are joining together to make us all look at this truly awful horse
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Does the grotesque not offer its own beauty?

Persona 3 Reload producer dashes any remaining hopes for the return of Portable's female protagonist: 'It is likely never going to happen'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News The dream is dead.

Valve issues new rules outlawing links in Steam page descriptions, hopefully bringing an end to the plague of demos pretending they're 'prologue games'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Our long national nightmare is almost over.

Mordhau pugilists raise thousands of dollars for a fellow player's medical bills in a fistfighting contest against cancer
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Fisticuffs for a good cause.

A massive free update and a 50% discount sends Cult of the Lamb rocketing up the Steam charts
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News There's a goat now!

Black Mirror creator offers a new premonition of humanity's self-wrought tech apocalypse, and it's Balatro on phones: 'It's possibly the most addictive thing ever created'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News What if Balatro, but too much?

Bethesda's updated Doom remasters have opened a portal to a hellish dimension of uncredited mod uploads: 'This is a massive breach of trust'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News A new in-game mod browser makes it all too easy to pass off another's work as your own.

Shadows of Doubt, the procgen private-eye immersive sim, is leaving early access next month
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News I've never been more excited to scan fingerprints.

Nightingale devs say they're 'not satisfied' with the game, its reception, or its player numbers, but they've got big improvements coming
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Step one: bigger build limits.

Fallout: New Vegas director on the art of making sure all your points in persuasion aren't wasted: It's 'all about feelings … but you use numbers to arrive at that feeling'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Obsidian's playbook for providing enough skill checks for your maxed-out Lockpicking.

Monster Hunter Wilds introduces Focus Mode, for those moments when you absolutely must hit that Tigrex in its tender nethers
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Highlight weak points for new special moves.

Payback, a Destiny spinoff that was not, in fact, Destiny 3, was cancelled two months before the latest mass layoffs at Bungie
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Most of Payback's development team has shifted to the upcoming Marathon reboot.

Valve's former economist says Steam could produce 'better macroeconomic forecasts' than Goldman Sachs with the power of crowdsourcing and brownie points
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News A haunting vision of a Valve that might've been.
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