Joshua Wolens
One of Josh's first memories is of playing Quake 2 on the family computer when he was much too young to be doing that, and he's been irreparably game-brained ever since. His writing has been featured in Vice, Fanbyte, and the Financial Times. He'll play pretty much anything, and has written far too much on everything from visual novels to Assassin's Creed. His most profound loves are for CRPGs, immersive sims, and any game whose ambition outstrips its budget. He thinks you're all far too mean about Deus Ex: Invisible War.
Latest articles by Joshua Wolens
Halls of Torment review: A miraculous mix of the best parts of autobattlers and ARPGs
By Joshua Wolens published
Tristram Candy Stay awhile and listen.
20 hours in, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a mad, systems-driven sandbox that captures some of the best parts of games like Stalker
By Joshua Wolens published
Chaos Reigns No one warned me my actions would have consequences.
18 games the PC Gamer team can't wait to play in 2025
By Phil Savage published
🕹️ There's lots to look forward to this year.
Microsoft's latest trick to get you using Bing is disguising it as Google
By Joshua Wolens published
News Imitation is a form of flattery.
Crysis' magical Nanosuit was so convincing that a nanotech conference asked Crytek's boss to give a keynote speech: 'I said, excuse me, but this is all fake'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Crysis 2 and 3, however, are documentaries.
Hero modders take a break from their 25-year quest to make the rest of Morrowind to make the Oblivion we should have got instead
By Joshua Wolens published
News Project Cyrodiil's first expansion is out now.
Twitter is dead, X is a cesspit, let's make 2025 the year of the message board
By Joshua Wolens published
X Rated Bluesky's a nice enough alternative, but it doesn't solve most of the fundamental problems of massive social media.
Game of the Year 2024: Balatro
By Robin Valentine published
🏆 Hands down the best game of the year.
Too many games released busted, broken, and basically in early access this year—it's time for it to stop
By Joshua Wolens published
defective product The money-men are getting complacent in our incredibly online era.
Best RPG 2024: Metaphor: ReFantazio
By Mollie Taylor published
🏆 Atlus graduates from high school and brings us its best JRPG yet.
Spirit of the PC 2024: Stalker 2
By Joshua Wolens published
🏆 A PC gaming classic, back and better than ever.
I saved myself and you $70 by simply modding Skyrim to be indistinguishable from Metaphor: ReFantazio, the year's best RPG
By Joshua Wolens published
Metaphor ReSkyrim You can't even tell the difference.
Halls of Torment feels like the brilliant lovechild of Vampire Survivors and Diablo, and the absolute pinnacle of autobattlers
By Joshua Wolens published
🏆 Cow level presence: undetermined.
Sweet aunt Petunia! GSC just announced updates for the 3 classic Stalker games 15 years after release
By Joshua Wolens published
News Cheekis to be 40% more breeki.
Path of Exile 2's huge passive skill tree used to scare me, but now I've started treating it as 'open-world character creation' I've fallen in love with the whole thing
By Joshua Wolens published
Any Witch Way Take a hike.
Stalker 2 revives A-Life with a mondo-huge 110 GB Christmas patch that marks the game's first major update
By Joshua Wolens published
News Weight limit exceeded.
Civilization 7 will let you hand the keys to the nukes to Benjamin Franklin and Harriet Tubman, and guess what? America's just showed up
By Joshua Wolens published
News It's a whole new world.
Fans reckon that Ciri's on the path in The Witcher 4 because The Witcher 3's endgame screwed everything up
By Joshua Wolens published
News Always keep your spheres separate, folks. Sphere safety 101.
Best Witch starter build in Path of Exile 2
By Joshua Wolens published
Hex-based Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones.
Delta Force says its USB drive ban was a 'translation error' and it won't shunt you to the shadowrealm for keeping a thumbstick plugged in
By Joshua Wolens published
News You'll safely eject this drive from my cold, dead hands.
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