Luke Winkie
Luke Winkie is a freelance journalist and contributor to many publications, including PC Gamer, The New York Times, Gawker, Slate, and Mel Magazine. In between bouts of writing about Hearthstone, World of Warcraft and Twitch culture here on PC Gamer, Luke also publishes the newsletter On Posting. As a self-described "chronic poster," Luke has "spent hours deep-scrolling through surreptitious Likes tabs to uncover the root of intra-publication beef and broken down quote-tweet animosity like it’s Super Bowl tape." When he graduated from journalism school, he had no idea how bad it was going to get.
Latest articles by Luke Winkie
Evil Dead: The Game review
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BOOMSTICK Evil Dead brings a brand new tactical thrill to the multiplayer horror genre.
The most infamous MMO players of all time
By Luke Winkie published
Titans Famous or infamous, these players still have their stories told years or decades after becoming forum legend.
Eternal Threads review
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Second Chance Go back in time to fix broken hearts.
10 of the most brutal game challenges of all time
By Luke Winkie published
ACHIEVEMENT LOCKED From ridiculous hard modes to masochistic grinds, these games want us to bleed.
I got loaded on real Skooma absinthe while playing Skyrim and regret nothing
By Luke Winkie published
fine spirits Taste-testing Jim & Tonic's Elder Scrolls-inspired drink, paired nicely with Skyrim.
This website only shows you Twitch streams no one else is watching
By Luke Winkie published
👁👁 The creator of Nobody.live on the weird thrill of being a Twitch streamer's only viewer.
Not Tonight 2 review
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GUESTLISTED Not Tonight 2 adapts the Papers, Please format to a shattered American landscape, but with more style than substance.
Wordle review
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Spelling Bee This little word game took over the world with great puzzles and great vibes.
The best Wordle starting words and other winning strategies from expert nerds
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 How to win Wordle with the fewest guesses, using strategies from people who have really, really thought about it.
The Matrix Resurrections is one of the best critiques of videogame culture ever
By Luke Winkie published
Opinion After two decades of being reinterpreted and repurposed, The Matrix says its piece.
The Matrix Online may have died in 2009, but there's still a ghost in the machine
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Back in Long before The Matrix Resurrections, fans started bringing the beloved MMO back from the dead.
Farming Simulator 22 review
By Luke Winkie published
reap and sow Farming Simulator 22 retains the series' inscrutable magic and unfortunate jank.
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy review
By Luke Winkie published
Space Anomaly Guardians of the Galaxy is charming, heartwarming, and beset by technical issues.
Why is Quake so damn fast? John Romero explains
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Speed shooter id Software's shooters were so fast because they "wanted to show people what games could be," says Romero.
Diablo 2: Resurrected review
By Luke Winkie published
hell and back Diablo 2: Resurrected brings lots of love to an RPG considered a classic for a reason.
Put an 'undo' button in every strategy game
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Ctrl-Z Old World lets players backtrack whenever they make a bad move.
After all this time, MMO players are still thirsty for 'the next World of Warcraft'
By Luke Winkie published
LFG The New World hype comes from a public starved for a big, basic MMO.
Free Guy is a better videogame movie than I expected
By Luke Winkie published
Review In 2021, there isn't a celebrity cameo more prescient than Pokimane.
Death's Door review
By Luke Winkie published
Afterlife A grand, Zelda-ish adventure in a small package.
It's become impossible to keep up with all these damn 'seasons'
By Luke Winkie published
Opinion Can developers and players really maintain this pace?
An ode to the stake gun and the macabre glory of sticking dudes to walls
By Luke Winkie published
Pinned Up From Painkiller to BioShock 2, game developers understand that sometimes, we want to be sickos.
Scarlet Nexus review
By Luke Winkie published
PSYCHOBABBLE One of the most ambitious games of the year, if not the most successful one.
People who argue about the definition of roguelikes are annoying, but what if they're right?
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Rouge Inside the community of purists who will never stop caring.
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