Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter
Payback, a Destiny spinoff that was not, in fact, Destiny 3, was cancelled two months before the latest mass layoffs at Bungie
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
News A haunting vision of a Valve that might've been.
Valve unintentionally set the stage for today's digital economic hellscape, according to its former economist in residence
News Yanis Varoufakis says we're in the age of "technofeudalism," and TF2 hats brought us there.
Promise Mascot Agency is a game where you can entice a big, sobbing tofu guy with employee benefits, and I think that's beautiful
News The next game from the studio behind Paradise Killer just got a new gameplay overview, and it's spectacularly odd.
During a $10,000 Elden Ring speedrun contest, the "holy grail" of glitches emerges as speedrunners learn to run across the sky
News Elden Ring speedrunners discover they can turn off gravity with some trickery and precise timing.
Jonathan Blow says the Braid remaster 'sold like dog****'
News "The whole game industry is having a hard time."
This CT scanning company is sowing chaos for Pokémon card collectors by selling X-ray scans of booster packs: 'We firmly believe we stand in the zone of chaotic good'
News You can find out if you're sitting on an unopened Charizard for a scant $75 per pack.
Palworld's community manager says our 'dead game' fixation is ruining gaming: 'I don't think it really serves anyone to push gamers to play the same game, day in and day out'
News "It's not healthy for us."
Indie studio pulls its first game from Steam after realizing it lost the source code: 'We had no established routine to back up our data'
News A heartbreaking testament to the importance of backups.
The Steam Tower Defense Fest is here, bringing sales on games where buildings do the battling
Or the guys in the buildings if you want to get pedantic
Cool statues at Comic-Con might've leaked upcoming Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver remasters
News Raziel is overdue for a revisit.
Survival RTS Cataclismo added a sandbox mode, because sometimes we just want to make our silly little castles in peace
News A magical day for merlon enthusiasts.
Scientists think there's a 10-mile-thick layer of diamond beneath the surface of Mercury, which would make you around 876 billion Minecraft pickaxes if my math is right
News Finally, that gifted kid math class has paid off.
Earth Defense Force 6 gets review bombed on Steam over a surprise Epic account requirement when we should all be bombing giant bugs instead
News The bug game? We're review bombing the big bug game? Are we sure?
Dragon Age: The Veilguard will launch on Steam without the clutching, hateful tendrils of the EA app
News Perhaps there is a future worth hoping for.
Fortnite players declare the Cybertruck public enemy number one: 'You are now in a truce with everyone else in the lobby until they're taken down'
News God hunt us all, if we do not hunt Cybertruck to its death.
Stormgate developers say they want to lower the RTS skill floor, not the skill ceiling: 'It's okay to be a high-skill game'
Reforging War In a PC Gaming Show documentary, Frost Giant says it wants "all players, of all skill levels, to be able to enjoy what we love about the RTS genre."
Super Earth grants free mechs to all Helldivers 2 players in celebration of a last-minute Major Order victory
News Never tell me the odds.
An Elden Ring streamer killed Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss in one hit and only needed to juggle 5 consumables, 3 weapons, 4 helmets, and 5 talismans to do it
News Git gud (at juggling).
Baldur's Gate 3 dev says it's Larian's philosophy to 'fuel and reward' player creativity: 'They found a way to exploit the game, let them have it, it's awesome'
News Larian followed an "edge-case implementation checklist" to build a game you can beat after breaking it.
Your Dragon Age: The Veilguard character can be voiced by the guy who did all the Baldur's Gate 3 sex noises
News No confirmation whether they also got the bear, though.
Warner Bros acquires MultiVersus devs as it shifts focus to free-to-play
News Player First Games enters the Warner Bros. umbrella after three years on MultiVersus.
Epic's bringing the joy of mocking a passing Cybertruck to Fortnite
News They know this season's called "Wrecked," right?
