Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter
'Explain yourself': Old School RuneScape births a new meme as bug-exploiting scoundrels lay waste to unsuspecting F2P players with gear that shouldn't exist
News Only PKers would defy these oldest and most sacred laws.
Palworld developer reports Nintendo's suing over 3 Pokémon patents for only $66,000 in damages, but a videogame IP lawyer says fighting the lawsuit could mean 'burning millions of dollars'
News We finally know which patents Pocketpair and Nintendo are battling over.
Kojima Productions acquires Death Stranding IP rights, presumably meaning the series will only get more unhinged
News Kojima and co. have full control of the franchise's future.
To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks
News Some people are just fishing for attention.
Brighter Shores is a RuneScape successor with lots of professions and little wonder
Overskill Work isn't worth your free time if the world isn't fun.
What's free on the Epic Games Store right now?
FREE STUFF Stay up to date on what games Epic is giving away each week.
Capcom, if you're listening: Monster Hunter Wilds needs its hitstop back
take a pause In the Wilds beta, the hits didn't hit right.
Ubisoft's NFT dumpster fire flares up as a matchmaking bug leaves every player connecting and losing to the same confused, unkillable guy
News Seems like a sound investment to me.
Treyarch has nerfed Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's loathed Recon perk, meaning your wallhacks won't last quite as long after respawning
News Activision-sanctioned x-ray vision has been reduced by an entire half-second.
The Monster Hunter Wilds beta isn't looking so hot, but Capcom says the full game 'is already in a more improved state'
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
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
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'
News Netflix's WoW documentary captures moments from a man's other life in Azeroth, discovered by his parents after his death.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: Everything we know
No Ticket We'll be embarking on an entirely new adventure with Dr. Henry Jones Jr. in time for the holidays.
Is Concord the biggest live service failure of all time? Here's how it stacks up next to other major flops
Megaflops The live service graveyard got another headstone this week, and it's starting to feel awfully big.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard unlock times
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'
News "Mass Effect will maintain the mature tone of the original trilogy."
The 31 best Minecraft skins to give your avatar a cool new look
Dress sense Check out the 31 best Minecraft skins based on video games, anime, and even a few memes.
The next Helldivers 2 Warbond is going full baddies mode with armor and weaponry from the Ministry of Truth
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
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
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
News Get my hammer.
The latest Cities: Skylines 2 patch addresses homelessness and pollution issues in an already-fraught election year
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
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
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.
