Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter
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.
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.
'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.
This modder's 'final love letter to Dark Souls 2' is a massive mechanical overhaul and just the excuse I needed for a Majula homecoming
A pile of quality-of-life changes for bearers seeking to seek lest all over again.
Hacker accused of manipulating Bitcoin prices with a fake SEC tweet was arrested after allegedly searching 'what are some signs the FBI is after you'
News My "I did not hack the SEC's X account" shirt is making people ask a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
Former Sony exec says focusing on high-budget blockbusters is 'a death sentence' for the games industry
News Ex-SIE charman Shawn Layden says an overemphasis on AAA games is "a threat to the ecosystem."
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.
Modders achieved an unprecedented time-to-ogre by putting Shrek in Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero before its official release date
News This fight was ogre before it even began.
The developer of Rogue Legacy has officially released its source code 'in the pursuit of sharing knowledge'
News Legacy secured.
Six-shooter buffs in the latest Helldivers 2 balance patch have spawned a galaxy of Hulk-deleting Revolver Ocelots
News Six bullets. More than enough to kill anything that moves.
In its next Tron game, Bithell Games is doing a Groundhog Day on The Grid
News Time is a flat identity disc.
The top 100 PC games
Class of 2024 Welcome to the 2024 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games around.
This homebrew plugin that lets you install GOG and Epic games on your Steam Deck is getting a standalone Steam release
News Is that allowed?
Will GTA 6 keep its 2025 release date? 20 years of Rockstar delays say probably not
Repeat history Delays have hit every major Rockstar open world game since 2004.
Persona series director says Atlus's flashy menus are 'actually really annoying' to design
News Sometimes we suffer for our craft.
Everything we know about Crimson Desert
Blood Red The new open world action game isn't a direct sequel to Black Desert Online, but expect some similarities.
Former Bethesda and BioWare devs are making a Stardew-like with Redwall animals, and oh my god look at this little mouse farmer carry a pumpkin
News Would that we could all be a little creature doing little tasks.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard won't have an arachnophobia mode because it won't have any spiders
News No spider swapping necessary.
Avowed: everything we know about Obsidian's next big RPG
Skyrim-esque Set in the same world as Pillars of Eternity, Avowed is Obsidian's big new first-person RPG.
This pixel art road trip RPG's reveal trailer is the only thing that's ever made me nostalgic for my crappy first car
News Keep Driving won't have to tell me twice.
