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
Witcher 3 dataminers detail the enormous scrapped questline that would have brought back The Witcher 2's best character, and maybe saved the game from its worst bit of writing
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News But the stealth elf would have no wealth of health.
Finally, The Witcher 3 with the fat cut out: They're releasing a physical Gwent board game for true connoisseurs
By Joshua Wolens published
News All killer, no filler.
Delta Force has a list of tech it'll ban you to the shadowrealm for using, including the usual cheating software but also way weirder stuff like 'USB drives' [Update: The devs say it's fine, actually]
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News But that's where I keep all my legitimately acquired media!
Let's Build A Dungeon is an intricate sim where you design the MMO of your dreams, then decide whether to toss it all out the window to keep players and shareholders happy
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News Too real.
Fancy a Stalker/XCOM mashup that has you putting down the enemies of a tyrannical dictator? Chains of Freedom has you covered
By Joshua Wolens published
News You know, a cosy game.
Enter the Chronosphere is a super-creative roguelike/strategy game where time only moves when you move, and you can try the open beta now
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News Your move. Actually, everyone's move.
Tiny indie studio realises someone is selling its free games for $100+ on eBay and is totally stoked: 'We're a real developer now' it declares, adding an 'in your face!' to a homebrew convention that rejected them
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News But Safety Stoat says you should under no circumstances actually buy the damn thing.
Stalker 2 is so popular in Ukraine, its launch strangled the whole country's internet for hours
By Joshua Wolens published
News Talk about most wanted.
GSC says it couldn't delay Stalker 2 to fix bugs because 'one more marathon' might have destroyed the devs: 'It has some problems, but it's a game! It's a game with soul'
By Joshua Wolens published
News After 14 years, GSC just needed to get Stalker 2 shipped.
Astarion voice actor Neil Newbon offered Fallout: London modders free work, but they accidentally left him on read for nearly 2 years
By Joshua Wolens published
News Whoops.
Delta Force open beta launch times and release date
By Joshua Wolens published
Launch times Here are the official unlock times and preload info for Delta Force's open beta, so you can get shooting as soon as possible.
Russian disinfo is trying to spark a boycott of Stalker 2 by claiming it's going to draft you into the war in Ukraine somehow
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News A fake video claims the game is gathering IP and device data to find Ukrainian conscripts. No, that doesn't make any sense to me either.
Blizzard is delisting Warcraft 1 and 2 from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot
By Joshua Wolens published
News Good old GOG.
Even an idiot like me can upgrade the Steam Deck SSD, and this deep Black Friday deal on a 1 TB Crucial drive is a great chance to do it yourself
By Joshua Wolens last updated
Deal I didn't break anything, not even myself.
Brigand: Oaxaca might be the ugliest game I've ever played, and quietly one of the greatest immersive sims of all time
By Joshua Wolens published
STALKER 3 Beauty is skin-deep, but systems are forever.
Join the sunlit uplands of DLSS 3 with this Black Friday RTX 4070 Ti Super deal that costs less than half what my RTX 4080 did, and I'm not bitter about that at all
By Joshua Wolens published
Deal It's okay. I'm okay.
No one's making a big-budget immersive sim any time soon, but you can catch up on the best ones ever made for less than the price of a single new game in the Steam Autumn Sale
By Joshua Wolens published
News You can pick up a load of games where a bomb's a bad choice for close-range combat.
Skyrim finally playable as modder invents 'coffins so comfy you'll wish you were dead'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Peace at last.
Keanu Reeves went on an intense 'internal journey' to inhabit the role of evil Sonic the Hedgehog With a Gun
By Joshua Wolens published
News Woah.
My date with an 'adorable girl who forgives all your awkwardness' went wrong when I realised I was trapped in digital hell
By Joshua Wolens published
Unhinged Think she'll call back?
Bad news for skull-havers: The Skulltaker is here to take your skull in Total War: Warhammer 3's just-announced DLC
By Joshua Wolens published
News I was using that.
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