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 ing 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

A Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 dev has formed an anime rivalry with the godlike buildcrafters who only needed 'like, one week' to beat his record of dealing 3.4 billion damage with one attack
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Number go up.

Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford tells anyone worried about an $80 Borderlands 4 pricetag that 'if you're a real fan, you'll make it happen,' reminding us all of the value in choosing not to tweet
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News I simply wouldn't have said that.

SAG-AFTRA files unfair labor practice complaint against Epic over Fortnite's AI-powered Darth Vader: 'We must protect our right to bargain and conditions around uses of voice that replace the work of our '
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News SAG-AFTRA have been striking over AI in videogames since July 2024.

Kojima says his next espionage game will keep us waiting another '5 or 6 years', but then he might finally get around to directing a movie: 'I’m getting older, and I would prefer to do it while still young'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News He might be 61, but Kojima still wants to be a director when he grows up.

Finally, some good news: The world's only Warhammer academic conference is returning in September to present more talks like 'The ethical implications of the Imperium’s war with chaos and the inverted meaning of order'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News In the grim darkness of the 21st century, there is only scholarly analysis of the grim darkness of the 41st millennium.

Fortnite added an AI-powered Darth Vader and—surprise—players immediately tricked him into saying slurs
By Lincoln Carpenter last updated
News Update: Epic has deployed a hotfix to address Vader's profanity.

Bungie confirms it stole art once again, will undertake a 'thorough review' of Marathon assets
By Lincoln Carpenter last updated
News Update: Bungie lays the blame on a former artist.

A year after Bandai Namco killed its anime MMO, Blue Protocol is getting a second, different anime MMO in the same universe
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Blue Protocol: Star Resonance is like Blue Protocol, but different. But similar!

Lucasfilm declares creative bankruptcy with an AI-generated Star Wars film that's just 2 minutes of mostly normal animals jumbled together
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News I've got a bad feeling about this.

DayZ creator says Unity is accusing his studio of violating its software license based on the email addresses of two people who never worked there: 'This raises some serious questions about how Unity is scraping this data'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Unity gave RocketWerkz a week to get its licenses sorted, but its evidence seems a little suspect.

10 million Monster Hunter Wilds sales helped Capcom post its 8th consecutive year of record profits
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News It's a friendly market for fighting lizards.

US senator announces a bill requiring geotracking in high-end GPUs to prevent the Chinese government from wielding the ruinous power of your Nvidia RTX 4090
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News The US can't afford to lose its advantage in making games look a little funny with DLSS.

Sean Murray pours one out for No Man's Sky permadeath player who stranded himself in bittersweet space purgatory: 'All I can do is sit in my ship, watch the lightning storms, and wait for my oxygen to run out'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News At least it's a pretty tragedy.

Fallout Season 2 filming just wrapped, so now's a good time to check in on any New Vegas sickos you know and make sure they're not getting too worked up
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Unclear how many hours of gecko fight sequences were filmed, but I'm guessing it's a lot.

Sure, man: The $200 deluxe edition of the Gex Trilogy remaster includes a 3-foot inflatable Gex and box art from legendary illustrator Yoshitaka Amano
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News I've never felt so alive.

Titan Quest 2 early access delayed due to 'a lot of noise' from ARPG competitors, but the developers say closed playtest results have been 'incredibly motivating'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Best to let things settle a bit, perhaps.

Palworld devs 'disappointed' as they patch out a game mechanic to appease Nintendo, but 'the alternative would have led to an even greater deterioration'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Goodbye, Pal gliding.

Confusion reigns as report of an A24 Elden Ring movie emerges, disappears, and emerges again
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Is there anything here, or are we all tarnishing our reputations?

The latest GTA 6 trailer confirmed its most exciting feature: A bunch of logos for pretend companies
By Lincoln Carpenter published
brand appeal That's the stuff.

The GTA 6 map will include a 'lush' national park in the mountains featuring 'hillbilly mystics and paranoid radicals'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Sounds lovely.

Skype dead at 22
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Microsoft has finally put the venerable voice software to rest.

This dreary low-poly delivery game pairs Animal Crossing villagers with soul-crushing gig work and I can't wait to play it
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News It ain't much, but it's honest work.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2: Everything we know
By Lincoln Carpenter, Lauren Morton last updated
Smile, Jack Everything about Bloodlines 2's development, setting, clans, dancing, and more.
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