Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter
Shadow of the Erdtree review roundup: 'Recaptures all of the magic of playing Elden Ring for the first time'
News Critics are heaping a Torrent of praise on Elden Ring's DLC.
To create its cast of Baldur's Gate 3 companions, Larian came up with 'hundreds and hundreds' of character concepts: 'It was a huge, huge list'
News Character classes were the last details finalized in the Baldur's Gate 3 party's long iteration process.
Maxis canceled The Sims in the '90s, but it was saved by an unlikely hero: Electronic Arts
News Project "Dollhouse" outlasted industry turmoil, gender norms, and company collapse.
Jackbox players rejoice: A free 'Megapicker' is coming soon that can launch the specific Party Pack game you want to play
News With The Jackbox Megapicker, it'll be easier than ever to track down Tee K.O.
Minecraft 1.21, the Tricky Trials update, is out now
News 1.21 brings Trial Chambers, automatic crafters, and new, worse skeletons.
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Microsoft backs up Geoff Keighley after he ignited console warrior outrage over the Gears of War: E-Day trailer
News In a valiant defense of a trillion dollar corporation, Xbox fans declare graphics terminology the latest battlefield of a war raging in their own minds.
Nimbly dodging confirmation of a rumored Xbox handheld, Phil Spencer says he's excited about 'the work that the team is doing around different form factors'
News "I think we should have a handheld, too."
Killed by Google in 2021, Discord's most popular music bot is back from the dead
News Rythm returns as a reformed, officially-sanctioned Discord app for group-only listening.
Vile treachery: When you 'ran' on the Citadel in Mass Effect, it just changed the FOV to make it look like you were going faster
News Former BioWare dev admits to unforgivable betrayal—we tested it, and it's true.
It's been 729 days since the last appearance of Silksong, and the Hollow Knight fans are in a bad way
News "We're no longer clowns 'cause we don't make people laugh anymore."
After playing the deckbuilding RTS just revealed at Summer Game Fest, I believe in better, simpler realtime strategy
Paradigm shifting With Battle Aces, Uncapped Games is making strides towards an RTS renaissance.
Here's the trailer for Destiny 2's new raid, teasing The Final Shape's final showdown with The Witness
News Until weekly raid teams are farming it for cool guns, anyway.
My favorite roguelike where you can grant a chair the gift of sentience just got a UI update that makes it far more approachable
News Surreal science fantasy roguelike Caves of Qud just tore down its biggest barrier to entry.
Team Fortress 2 plummets to 'Overwhelmingly Negative' on Steam as its biggest fans stoke the righteous flames of anti-bot outrage
News You hate to see it.
Baldur's Gate 3 player gits gouda, beats game as wheel of cheese
News A dairy-ing feat of player roquefortitude.
Ultrakill dev says it's fine to pirate his game if you don't have money to spare: 'Culture shouldn't exist only for those who can afford it'
News Spreading the word about a game you pirated and enjoyed is "at worst an equal trade," Hakita says.
Summer Game Fest will focus on existing games, so don't hype yourself up for 'games that are years and years out,' says Geoff Keighley
News Expect more already-announced games than first reveals.
Team Fortress 2 players gather over 140,000 petition signatures in the latest campaign against the ongoing aimbot menace
News #SaveTF2 reemerges, hoping to pressure Valve into consistent anti-cheat support.
Destiny's famed 'lore daddy' releases a 10-hour history recap, with 12,000 people tuning in for the live premiere
News Cancel all my weekend plans. And maybe some of next week's, too.
The latest overnight survival game fixation blends a Mesoamerican theme, Bionicle masks, and the occasional Destiny guy
News Soulmask is cashing in on our latent, universal love for early 2000s Lego product lines.
Brand synergizing strikes again as Destiny 2 gets D&D crossover cosmetics, and dammit, I do kind of want the owlbear sparrow
News Illithid helmets: a dire new chapter in Warlock fashion.
Todd Howard says he's never seen anything like the '4-6x increase in daily players' the Fallout games got from the show: 'It's a really, really unique moment'
News Fallout 76 has piled on 3 million more players since December.
