Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter
Instead of wishlisting its game, the developer of my favorite Next Fest demo wants you to play anyone else's: 'There are some genuinely great creators in this fest who deserve the attention'
News It's an unconventional marketing strategy, but I'll allow it.
Rockstar faces legal setback as UK tribunal allows its fired workers to bring every one of their union busting allegations to trial
News The trial date for Rockstar's firings dispute is now set for September.
Attention former 2000s youths: A second Beyblade-inspired roguelike has hit Steam Next Fest
News It's a big year for battle tops.
Sega says it made a 'life-sized figure containing Sonic's DNA,' and I have a few questions
News According to Sega, Sonic's DNA "essence" has been captured with "cutting-edge biotechnology."
It would take you 90 straight days to play each of Steam Next Fest's demos for just 30 minutes
News Hooray! Also, help!
Xbox is reportedly closing South of Midnight studio Compulsion Games after bragging about its award-winning developers earlier this year
News The shutdown comes just a few days after a report claiming that major layoffs at Xbox were on the way.
There's suddenly a terrifying number of games releasing this fall
News I'm going to need to fit a few extra weeks into September somehow.
Everything announced at Xbox Games Showcase 2026
RECAP Here's your recap of Microsoft's reveals.
Wielders of the Essence is revolutionizing the bullet heaven genre by letting you play as swamp-dwelling amphibians instead of vamp-hunting Italians
News No frog fights alone.
Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance caps off Capcom's redemption arc with a 'massive' expansion in 2027
News So many promising new lizard faces to hit with hammers.
Bandai Namco is pitting Gundams against kaiju in 2027
News Gundam Rogue Orbit's enemies are definitely no Zaku, boy.
ArenaNet announces Guild Wars 3, promising 'an entirely new type of MMO experience'
news The MMO takes place 1,000 years before Guild Wars, and boasts a "one-of-a-kind movement system."
I regret to inform you that you almost certainly overlooked a sick as hell shrimp game on Steam last month
News There's still time to correct this grievous error.
'What was unravelling is suddenly stabilizing': Destiny 2's last update is getting an absurd 71 pages of patch notes, but its story is closing with a shrug
News At least that big, beautiful orb is back where it belongs.
They did motion capture on a cube
News God of War Laufey necessitated an exciting new form of method acting.
Marathon's first 'PvP-lite' experimental mode sounds like a delightfully terrifying alternative
News Just your squad, hostile NPCs, and an escalating number of Rook chaos agents.
Bungie devs have resurrected an obscene amount of guns for Destiny 2's final update: 'My body physically hurts from the amount of items we were updating'
News Kindled Orchid. Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
Balatro publisher Playstack could soon belong to the same private equity firm that owns Fandom and GameSpot
News Playstack CEO Harvey Elliott says "for now, it's business as usual."
In a bittersweet return to form, Destiny 2's final update is giving players reasons to roam its public zones once again
News I'll see you planetside.
This week's most compelling Steam demo is a torment engine disguised as golf
News Normal Golf Game offers a tantalizing brand of misery.
Steam Workshop now looks like it was designed in this decade
News Workshop just got a fancy UI update, fresh out of the beta branch.
As its retirement looms, Destiny 2 is still the gold standard for joyous gunplay
SWORD LOGIC Even now, shotgun wizards remain unbeatable.
Destiny 2 players are processing their grief by posting their most embarrassing self-owns, and I've never felt more seen
News This is Destiny, to me.
