
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

Valkyrae cameo mysteriously cut from A Minecraft Movie after she accused Jason Momoa of 'mistreating some of the crew' last year: 'I feel like things could have been so much worse'
By Joshua Wolens published
News /clear.

Doom modder puts the Slayer in true hell: A minimum-wage fast food job that's 'psychological warfare only rivalled by the likes of Desert Bus or that one mission from Dying Light 2'
By Joshua Wolens published
News What reheated hell is this?

Miyazaki says calm down, FromSoft will keep making 'singleplayer-focused games' in future even though its current obsession is multiplayer stuff
By Joshua Wolens published
Well, thank heavens.

Ubisoft frantically patches nudity back into Far Cry 4 after accidentally patching it out
By Joshua Wolens published
News We've all been there.

Metaphor: ReFantazio tried to make you love turn-based combat again, but it almost broke the game during development
By Joshua Wolens published
News Hack, slash.

Jason Momoa adopts bold marketing strat for A Minecraft Movie: Telling everyone he doesn't let his kids play games or have phones—'I just want them to use their creativity in a different way'
By Joshua Wolens published
News A wise choice, but bad advertising.

The BAFTAs declares Shenmue and a game that came out 2 months ago more influential than Tetris and expects us to all just go along with that
By Joshua Wolens published
News Lotta forklift fans in the house tonight.

It's better than Slay The Spire, it was our best card game of 2020, and now the sequel has a proper release date
By Joshua Wolens published
News Monster Train 2 is pulling into the station.

No one's making a new BattleTech videogame any time soon, so I'll console myself with this $18 bundle of stuff for the tabletop RPG
By Joshua Wolens published
News Alpha struck.

Assassin's Creed Shadows didn't have yellow paint originally, but unfortunately players like me are stupid
By Joshua Wolens published
News My words, not Ubisoft's.

Ambitious burrito-lover mods real-life Chipotle orders into Fallout 4: 'This is an extremely serious mod. Not for the faint of heart'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Mex sense.

Schedule 1 just got its 5th patch, teaching its blackjack dealers to no longer let you look at their cards and promising a full-on '1st content update' this weekend
By Joshua Wolens published
News Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

After Swen Vincke wagged his finger at a Wizards of the Coast DMCA, Stardew's Baldur's Gate 3 mod is back online
By Joshua Wolens published
News Everyone disliked that, Wizards.

Wizards of the Coast says it didn't mean to send a DMCA takedown notice to the Baldur's Gate 3 Stardew mod: 'We are in the process of fixing that now'
By Joshua Wolens last updated
news The mod has Swen Vincke's personal approval, and the legal threat didn't go over well with fans—now WotC says it was "issued mistakenly."

Doom: The Dark Ages' melee-heavy, parry-focused gameplay was nothing like I expected, and now I'm more eager to play the full thing than ever
By Joshua Wolens published
Dark and darker Doom Souls.

Ubisoft says don't compare Assassin's Creed Shadows' success to Valhalla: The latter launched in Covid's 'perfect storm' and feedback on platforms 'less affected by review bombing' is stellar
By Joshua Wolens published
News And let's be honest, the second-biggest launch in AC history is still a very big launch.

Random characters kept swearing in Obsidian's font-obsessed murder-mystery when its procedural error system ran amok: 'Naughtiness abounded'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Ah, Scheiße.

After 17 years, devs of the only roguelike where players ask 'the best way to get the most limbs' can't believe its success: 'More people have bought Caves of Qud than are in this stadium, how do you reckon with that?'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Limber up.

Assassin's Creed Shadows is a hit and Steam played a 'significant role' in that: 27% of activations were on PC and it's the 2nd-biggest AC launch of all time
By Joshua Wolens published
News Just call that Guillemot's Ambition.

Skyrim realism mod fixes your vampire girlfriend, giving her a voice and look more suited to someone who just got out of a coffin after 2,000 years
By Joshua Wolens published
News

Gabe Newell's cult of personality is intense, but a Valve exec who worked with him says his superpower is how he 'delighted in people on the team just being really good at what they did'
By Joshua Wolens published
News It's kind of a team fortress, too.

Playable GTA 6 map nuked without warning by Take-Two lawyers: 'My guess is that the map was probably a little too accurate'
By Joshua Wolens published
News "I am surprised they didn't bother emailing me. I would have taken it down if asked."

I played the lost videogame sequel to 1984, and came away more nostalgic than ever for gaming's awkward adolescence in 1999
By Joshua Wolens published
Back in the day What a time to be alive.
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