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
![Aloy look s up](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dpvp2BCjNNXxskLsYk7yob-320-80.jpg)
Games industry hurtles further into self-parody as ESRB leaks existence of a Horizon Zero Dawn Remaster
By Joshua Wolens published
News Meanwhile, Bloodborne languishes in console prison.
![A close up of Cal Kestis' face in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/GuGWMiwz8zyFUs76yNwbFn-320-80.jpg)
EA says it's got a 3rd and final Star Wars Jedi game cooking in speech to imperial senate of investors—oh, and 40 million people have played the first 2 already
By Joshua Wolens published
News We will soon witness the power of an armed and fully operational videogame for modern consoles and the personal computer.
![A lineup of sinister figures from Reckoning of New York.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/rHh8S5mi6vQ37SYnjaZWTM-320-80.jpg)
Vampire: The Masquerade – Reckoning of New York just feels like the adventures of the World of Darkness' most annoying kindred
By Joshua Wolens published
Bloody Mess This one isn't passing the Toreador test.
![Still of Jason Momoa in A Minecraft Movie](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/rramDR6bkQBJjWeCeVwebi-320-80.jpg)
Jason Momoa was 'really mad and yelling' on the Minecraft movie set, says Valkyrae: 'I just saw him mistreat some of the crew'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Valkyrae has a cameo in the upcoming film.
![A black hole hangs ominously in space.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2x2TmJCWYgZChsVCdZkpEM-320-80.jpg)
EVE players are in revolt over CCP's blockchain plans: 'None of us want this crypto slop'
By Joshua Wolens published
NEWS EVE Frontier's marketing push is off to a rough start with the series' fans.
![Tony Hawk grinds in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/pskUitKRiLnRS372JwCPuQ-320-80.jpg)
Tony Hawk eats magical truth-telling salad, immediately confirms he and Activision have got something cooking for the first time since Vicarious Visions got swallowed
By Joshua Wolens published
News That's all you're getting. Unless you want some salad. There's loads of that.
![PC Gaming Show](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9AEU729djkUjRMUb8QR9Kc-320-80.jpg)
The PC Gaming Show returns December 5 with a sleigh full of the latest and greatest PC games
By Joshua Wolens published
News O come all ye PC gaming faithful.
![Endless bodies float suspended in space.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/U9jjHymYhqmtqnNuUZztQJ-320-80.jpg)
The new EVE survival MMO is using blockchain tech to create a 'boiling financial hellscape,' but don't call it a blockchain game
By Joshua Wolens published
Unchained EVE Frontier is one of the most interesting, and foreboding, projects I've seen in years.
![Yoji Shinkawa's artwork of Old Snake and Liquid Ocelot from MGS 4.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/y5ggkZA4uwMqyvEkXQXXti-320-80.jpg)
Konami admits Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol 1 kind of sucked at launch, promises to 'do everything we can not to repeat that' with Volume 2
By Joshua Wolens published
News Not yet, Snake. It's not over yet.
![Radahn](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/nfCiQyJLtFpjYyBizxY4WY-320-80.jpg)
FromSoft hands out a mega-nerf to Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss, players begin printing their 'I beat him pre-patch' t-shirts to lord it over the rest of us
By Joshua Wolens published
News Joke's on you, I'm never going to be able to beat him anyway.
![xdefiant](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/DtrQHA2UKnrxgQJLdgPTak-320-80.jpg)
As it struggles to find players, Ubisoft's XDefiant will give you $9 in funbucks if you log in a few times over the next couple of weeks
By Joshua Wolens published
News X gonna give $9 to ya.
![Chris Deering delivers a talk to students.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/QQRX79MopNU3BtJwbgzkKc-320-80.jpg)
Former Sony prez says thousands of laid-off devs can just 'go to the beach for a year' and you can't blame greedy execs: 'Things jump out in front of you and you deal with them just like any game. So get over it!'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Chris Deering was SCEE president from 1995 to 2005.
![](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4naKNXkdUbjhp7fb6VkGzc-320-80.jpg)
New fan-made engine makes Black and White playable on modern PCs, because god knows neither EA or Molyneux is going to do it
By Joshua Wolens published
News Which is the closest thing it's had to a release in years.
![A flush in Balatro](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hNTgyxVnZsNntjkMF8B4NC-320-80.jpg)
Global productivity to crash to zero as Balatro announces it's coming to phones
By Joshua Wolens published
News Capitalism is done.
![](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5zHfWhcziq8NSkBBVmhUQB-320-80.jpg)
Scalpers swarm eBay as Concord kicks the bucket, charging punters up to $25,000 for physical copies of the PS5 edition—and some are spending hundreds
By Joshua Wolens published
News If it's not clear: Don't do this.
![star wars outlaws](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/jKcrRvLMec4mZPwgBuRuQW-320-80.jpg)
Star Wars Outlaws director confesses being 'a little disappointed with the Metacritic' but says 'we're never going to stop improving it'
By Joshua Wolens published
News I am tapping the '73% is not a bad score' sign.
![A lineup of characters from Persona 2.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/VTXbpaZHeYjyWek2Mz3RQ6-320-80.jpg)
Atlus lead says he'd like to do Persona 1 and 2 remakes, but you're not getting them any time soon
By Joshua Wolens published
News I say just release some light-touch remasters in all their glorious jank.
![Rami Malek's character in Until Dawn.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/iZEEvzieWSRDpQ7BVdAvHK-320-80.jpg)
Until Dawn remake dev hit by bone-deep layoffs just a month before the game comes out
By Joshua Wolens published
News Ballistic Moon confirmed the news on LinkedIn.
![Uwe Boll, producer at the Mann's Chinese in Hollywood, California.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/iuAesqr42DjxZfoHLWNzin-320-80.jpg)
Uwe Boll's $2.5 million Postal movie crowdfunder is a trainwreck, forced to abort after raising $850 and the game's devs say they 'have no f***** idea' who the people behind it are
By Joshua Wolens published
News Who could have seen this coming?
![The characters of Deliver At All Costs above a flaming pickup truck.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dPBGxtTQmdkCXfRjEWpErb-320-80.jpg)
This absurd delivery game where you can smash through buildings was my favourite game at an event where I also played the Metal Gear Solid and Silent Hill remakes
By Joshua Wolens published
Still beats Hermes Deliver At All Costs is pure, simple fun.
![An image of Halsin, wildshaped into a bear, from Baldur's Gate 3.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/EqDVAoEYX5swwb5sRcFn6h-320-80.png)
Baldur's Gate 3's bear sex scene was such an 'upward turn in momentum for the game' that its animator called his mum to show it off: 'She was like, that's weeeird!'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Should've pinned it to the fridge.
![Phil Spencer giving a talk on stage, wearing a t-shirt with an 'X' on it.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dpz8ECHqvNrsbqEd6vFaoN-320-80.png)
Xbox boss Phil Spencer says he's made the 'worst game choice decisions,' letting exclusives like Destiny slip through his fingers
By Joshua Wolens published
News You know what they say: Hindsight is Xbox 360.
![Red Dead Redemption 2](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/GSBu2mCETrikWB8qPGnCcG-320-80.jpg)
Arthur Morgan's voice actor has his own 'canon ending' for RDR 2, and the only thing he'd change would be pronouncing Colm O'Driscoll's name properly: 'Rockstar made me say it wrong. I told them it was wrong. They didn't care'
By Joshua Wolens published
News And no, he doesn't know if Red Dead Redemption 3 is coming.
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