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

Metaphor: ReFantazio is the new fastest-selling game in Atlus' history, selling a million copies in its first day
By Joshua Wolens published
News Is this real life? Is this just fantasy?

Find love and abandon god with this $20,000 fully customisable Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion sex doll
By Joshua Wolens published
News Also, if you want to hire me after my imminent firing let me know.

Mark Zuckerberg reckons he's a Civilization 'grandmaster' who could beat 'anyone in the world,' and we should all brace ourselves for his Twitch career
By Joshua Wolens published
News Beware: Zuck's words are backed by nuclear weapons.

Change your passwords: Attackers claim a 'catastrophic security breach' of the Internet Archive, with 31 million emails and hashed passwords captured
By Joshua Wolens published
News "See 31 million of you on HIBP!"

Killing Floor 3's dynamic tech that makes zed heads 'flower' when you shoot them will haunt me for the rest of my days, but also I have to see more
By Joshua Wolens published
News Heads shouldn't flower. Just not a verb you should apply to heads.

Silent Hill 2 got an emergency patch after a 'huge translation mistake' spoiled the whole game for Italians
By Joshua Wolens published
News What's whoops in Italian?

We've collectively spent 11,000 years playing Balatro, fans reply it's gotta be more than that
By Joshua Wolens published
News Rookie numbers.

Sci-fi author sues Bungie, says it nicked ideas from his Wordpress blog for Destiny 2's blowout first campaign
By Joshua Wolens published
News I'm seeing double here: Four Red Legions!

Ubisoft's grudging return to Steam continues as Assassin's Creed Valhalla finally gets achievements 2 years after launch
By Joshua Wolens published
News Unlocked.

Red Dead Redemption 1 is coming to PC with a bunch of enhancements this month, a year after its very confusing Switch and PS4 port
By Joshua Wolens published
News Howdy.

YouTuber hero-scientist reveals the hidden lie at Morrowind's heart: Its rivers aren't rivers at all
By Joshua Wolens published
News Trust the facts.

Solo dev says he's bucking against the survival 'formula' that makes them stale, and if you want to actually make an axe from scratch does he have the game for you
By Joshua Wolens published
News The Last Plague: Blight is going to make you go through every step of forging a bronze blade, mister.

'Subconsciously, we were all ready to die': Stalker 2 developers secretly prepared for Russia's invasion
By Joshua Wolens published
News A new documentary sheds light on Stalker's development at war.

Bethesda honcho says Starfield is 'the best game we've ever made' in massive bout of amnesia
By Joshua Wolens published
News To be fair, Skyrim came out ages ago. Maybe he forgot.

Frostpunk dev's quietly very cool survival game where you manage relationships with your alt-universe selves gets delayed to next year
By Joshua Wolens published
News I am altering The Alters. Pray I do not alter them any further.

Cyberpunk 2077 engine lead says some of its legendary launch bugs happened because the alternative was even worse: 'Either you show a T-pose, or you hard crash… we prefer not to hard crash'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Hey, me too.

Bethesda says it took cues from the best game in its history for Shattered Space, but it's not winning fans over to 'an already catatonic game'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Still, it's nice that my community got some representation.

Vampire Survivors dev opens publishing arm, tells Web3 and F2P mobile games to stuff it
By Joshua Wolens published
News Rules are rules.

Fallout Tactics lead on exploring the 'bigotry' of the Brotherhood of Steel long before Bethesda got there: 'I really enjoyed killing off the nobility of them'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Fallout Tactics had some big ideas even if it didn't make good on all of them.

Age of Mythology's least-loved expansion looks like it's had an overhaul in its remastered version, and we'll be able to play as China 'soon'
By Joshua Wolens published
News We're heading east.

Fallout Tactics' lead designer tips his hat to Bethesda for succeeding where they failed: 'It can be done. You just need to be a multinational with more than 18 months'
By Harvey Randall published
News "Our approach was just terrible."

Konami just put out Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 patches that finally make them into the ports we should have got a year ago
By Joshua Wolens published
News Pretty good.

The mathematical constant of Pi is playing Pokémon on Twitch—after 25,000 hours it's curbstomped two children and power-levelled its starter, but is yet to escape the first town
By Joshua Wolens published
News You can do it, Seth.
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