Latest articles by Joshua Wolens
One of the best RPG narratives ever told could have gotten a sequel from Dragon Age's creator if a single publisher had the good taste to throw money at it
News Someone put me in charge of videogames. I'll sort this right out.
Reddit has reached a Silksong level of madness over the rumoured Oblivion remake in a fraction of the time
News I've heard others say the same.
Valkyrae cameo mysteriously cut from A Minecraft Movie after she accused Jason Momoa of 'mistreating some of the crew' last year: 'I feel like things could have been so much worse'
News /clear.
Doom modder puts the Slayer in true hell: A minimum-wage fast food job that's 'psychological warfare only rivalled by the likes of Desert Bus or that one mission from Dying Light 2'
News What reheated hell is this?
Miyazaki says calm down, FromSoft will keep making 'singleplayer-focused games' in future even though its current obsession is multiplayer stuff
Well, thank heavens.
Ubisoft frantically patches nudity back into Far Cry 4 after accidentally patching it out
News We've all been there.
Metaphor: ReFantazio tried to make you love turn-based combat again, but it almost broke the game during development
News Hack, slash.
Jason Momoa adopts bold marketing strat for A Minecraft Movie: Telling everyone he doesn't let his kids play games or have phones—'I just want them to use their creativity in a different way'
News A wise choice, but bad advertising.
The BAFTAs declares Shenmue and a game that came out 2 months ago more influential than Tetris and expects us to all just go along with that
News Lotta forklift fans in the house tonight.
It's better than Slay The Spire, it was our best card game of 2020, and now the sequel has a proper release date
News Monster Train 2 is pulling into the station.
No one's making a new BattleTech videogame any time soon, so I'll console myself with this $18 bundle of stuff for the tabletop RPG
News Alpha struck.
Assassin's Creed Shadows didn't have yellow paint originally, but unfortunately players like me are stupid
News My words, not Ubisoft's.
Ambitious burrito-lover mods real-life Chipotle orders into Fallout 4: 'This is an extremely serious mod. Not for the faint of heart'
News Mex sense.
Schedule 1 just got its 5th patch, teaching its blackjack dealers to no longer let you look at their cards and promising a full-on '1st content update' this weekend
News Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
After Swen Vincke wagged his finger at a Wizards of the Coast DMCA, Stardew's Baldur's Gate 3 mod is back online
News Everyone disliked that, Wizards.
Wizards of the Coast says it didn't mean to send a DMCA takedown notice to the Baldur's Gate 3 Stardew mod: 'We are in the process of fixing that now'
news The mod has Swen Vincke's personal approval, and the legal threat didn't go over well with fans—now WotC says it was "issued mistakenly."
Doom: The Dark Ages' melee-heavy, parry-focused gameplay was nothing like I expected, and now I'm more eager to play the full thing than ever
Dark and darker Doom Souls.
Ubisoft says don't compare Assassin's Creed Shadows' success to Valhalla: The latter launched in Covid's 'perfect storm' and feedback on platforms 'less affected by review bombing' is stellar
News And let's be honest, the second-biggest launch in AC history is still a very big launch.
Random characters kept swearing in Obsidian's font-obsessed murder-mystery when its procedural error system ran amok: 'Naughtiness abounded'
News Ah, Scheiße.
After 17 years, devs of the only roguelike where players ask 'the best way to get the most limbs' can't believe its success: 'More people have bought Caves of Qud than are in this stadium, how do you reckon with that?'
News Limber up.
Assassin's Creed Shadows is a hit and Steam played a 'significant role' in that: 27% of activations were on PC and it's the 2nd-biggest AC launch of all time
News Just call that Guillemot's Ambition.
Skyrim realism mod fixes your vampire girlfriend, giving her a voice and look more suited to someone who just got out of a coffin after 2,000 years
News
Gabe Newell's cult of personality is intense, but a Valve exec who worked with him says his superpower is how he 'delighted in people on the team just being really good at what they did'
News It's kind of a team fortress, too.
