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

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.

Six-shooter buffs in the latest Helldivers 2 balance patch have spawned a galaxy of Hulk-deleting Revolver Ocelots
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Six bullets. More than enough to kill anything that moves.

In its next Tron game, Bithell Games is doing a Groundhog Day on The Grid
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Time is a flat identity disc.

The top 100 PC games
By Phil Savage published
Class of 2024 Welcome to the 2024 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games around.

This homebrew plugin that lets you install GOG and Epic games on your Steam Deck is getting a standalone Steam release
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Is that allowed?

Will GTA 6 keep its 2025 release date? 20 years of Rockstar delays say probably not
By Lincoln Carpenter published
Repeat history Delays have hit every major Rockstar open world game since 2004.
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