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

Obsidian says choices both big and small will matter in Avowed, and 'the choices you get and the outcomes in front of you are going to depend on what you're able to find'
By Joshua Wolens published
News In other words, keep a health potion in reserve.

Silent Hill 2's new patch fixes its last patch in possible meta commentary on recursive horror
By Joshua Wolens published
News Patch 1.05 fixes the issues caused by patch 1.04, in a real lady-who-swallowed-a-fly kind of situation.

Factorio has Silicon Valley tycoons like Elon Musk under its spell, and one $7 billion CEO is letting employees expense the game
By Joshua Wolens published
News Factorio teaches important life skills. Like leaving the planet.

Today's Google Doodle is an alarmingly compelling card game about defeating mankind's oldest enemy: The Moon
By Joshua Wolens published
News It's had it coming for a long time now.

Star Wars Outlaws gets a patch that makes it more save-happy, less punishing in stealth, and stops NPCs causing 10-car speeder pileups
By Joshua Wolens published
News Ubisoft is altering the game. Pray it does not alter it further.

Roblox scrambles to fight the 'pedophile hellscape' allegations with changes to pre-teen accounts that don't seem like enough
By Joshua Wolens published
News Kids under 13 will soon need parental permission for some features, and kids under 9 will need even more.

I played the banned Skyrim mod that turns it into World War 2 and, no kidding, it's honestly kind of incredible
By Joshua Wolens published
News Skyrim belongs to the proletariat.

FF16's Ben Starr will host the 42nd Golden Joystick Awards this November
By Joshua Wolens published
News Here's to 42 more years of videogames.

Radio station uses AI to interview the ghost of a dead Nobel-winner with 3 quirky zoomers who don't exist, seems baffled people don't like it
By Joshua Wolens published
News Just saying I think I could have seen that coming.

Spooky survival game Angst knows just I want: Survival mechanics that get out the way of my quest to steal a sad orb from the guy in the basement
By Joshua Wolens published
News Punch trees, ponder orbs.

Victoria 3 is marking its 2nd birthday with DLC, 'a new discrimination system' and famine, and isn't that nice?
By Joshua Wolens published
News If I can't starve and oppress people is it really a Paradox game?

Silent Hill 2 remake patch improves performance but sadly stops James teleporting through peepholes and falling into the void
By Joshua Wolens published
News He can't teleport himself off that window frame, though.

Bethesda and Amazon are ploughing ahead with Fallout season 2: Shooting starts next month
By Joshua Wolens published
News Strike while the iron is nuclear-hot.

Fallout 1 fan-remake taps out just 2 months after it got a meaty demo, but promises it's not because of 'infighting' or Bethesda meddling
By Joshua Wolens published
News Fallout: Vault 13 is traipsing into the Wasteland for good.

Denuvo opens its own Discord server to rehabilitate its image, has to shut it down 2 days later after players flood in to bully it
By Joshua Wolens published
News Who could have seen this coming?

Steam has taken down 'over 260 materials containing illegal content' from its Russian store, brags the country's media censorship agency
By Joshua Wolens published
News If you're on the registry of banned materials, you're out.

Let Me Solo Her escapes 180-day Elden Ring ban after the FromSoft cops sent him down for installing Fortnite dances
By Joshua Wolens published
News Our boy is free.

Skyrim lead says Bethesda was knocked back by furious response to Oblivion Horse Armour DLC, but it sold 'millions' anyway: 'You're all making fun of it and yet you buy it'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Yup, sounds about right for a massive videogame controversy.

Larian teases 'something so small before something so big' as Baldur's Gate 3 gets its 28th hotfix
By Joshua Wolens published
News What does Larian have cooking?

Streets of Rogue 2's Steam Next Fest demo is catnip for immersive sim and Dwarf Fortress sickos, and nothing proves that like my time as a Chef on a quest to kill the mayor
By Joshua Wolens published
Rogue Two It ain't done, but what's already there is great fun.

Skyrim's lead designer admits Bethesda games lack 'polish,' but at some point you have to release a game even if you have a list of 700 known bugs
By Joshua Wolens published
News I say: Embrace the bugs.

The 8 most heartbreaking cuts from this year's PC Gamer Top 100
By Phil Savage published
Top 100 We only have 100 spots to list. Not every game is going to make it.

The top 100 PC games
By Phil Savage published
Class of 2024 Welcome to the 2024 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games around.
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