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
How to repair weapons in Stalker 2
By Sean Martin published
Tinker Keep your best guns in killer condition.
How to fast travel in Stalker 2
By Sean Martin published
Guided Zip around the map with help from your very own exclusion zone sherpa.
The best free games on Steam
By Joshua Wolens last updated
Updated! Nothing but the best free Steam games you can play right now.
10 tips to help you survive in Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl's perilous Zone
By Fraser Brown published
Survive the Zone Stalkers need to be prepared.
I've already played Stalker 2 for 50+ hours, and I promise you'll have a better time if you play with Ukrainian voice acting
By Joshua Wolens published
News Subs > dubs.
Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl review: A beautiful, brilliant, but busted Stalker just like they used to make
By Joshua Wolens published
In the Zone Say it with me now: get out of here, stalker.
A War Of A Madman's Making is a quietly brilliant, totally free political sim where you have to try to survive as a deranged dictator's henchman
By Joshua Wolens published
Dear Leader We've all been there.
From extensive lore-friendly research to diabolical wordplay: All the different ways we name our beloved videogame characters
By Mollie Taylor published
Aliases Making a name for ourselves.
The PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted returns with announcements and reveals galore this December 5
By Joshua Wolens published
News You know it's good when they get a 'galore' in there.
Fresh from a layoff bloodbath that cost over 2,500 jobs, Microsoft is already thinking about dropping the big bucks on more acquisitions
By Joshua Wolens published
News The business world stops for no one, I suppose.
Yawnoc is a new wave-based roguelike where killing your enemies the wrong way could send them growing out of control, and it's dirt cheap right now
By Joshua Wolens published
News I'm just as bad at the Game of Life as I am at the game of life.
GOG is gonna keep games like New Vegas running on modern systems by itself, using its own devs to keep oldies going 'for generations to come'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Starting with over 100 entries already fixed up.
Steam's latest update promises better betas, barely a bundle of broken save games
By Joshua Wolens published
News Bsave bgames, sorry.
How Fish Is Made is the most disgusting horror game I've ever played, and it perfectly captures 2024
By Joshua Wolens published
Fish Tale Put your fish body on the gears.
20 years later, Konami just finally revealed who played Eva in MGS3 and how she acted making out with Naked Snake
By Joshua Wolens published
News What a thrill.
The ex-GTA lead whose blog got the kibosh from Rockstar chats San Andreas' worst bug and why 'anything that isn't visible to players tends to have swearing in it'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Oh, for a world where Obbe Vermeij could say whatever he wants.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard's first mods fulfil the creators' true intention of letting you play as Nigel Thornberry, but spit on all that is good and decent by making everything less magenta
By Joshua Wolens published
News How could you?
Elon Musk says he's one of the world's 'top 20' Diablo 4 players, still reckons he was a Quake all-time great even after its actual best player said he 'wasn't very good'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Musk is sitting pretty with the #19 clear time in the Pit.
Square Enix honcho Yoshi-P pledges more simultaneous releases as the company realises people don't like waiting years for its games
By Joshua Wolens published
News I could have told them that.
Dragon Age has a secret 'uber-plot' that BioWare still seems to be following, and it all builds up 'the final thing you could do in this world that would break it'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Rocks fall, everyone dies.
Ubisoft boss says it knows players think it has an 'inconsistency in quality,' so it delayed Assassin's Creed Shadows to flip that script
By Joshua Wolens published
News And everyone's still upset about Unity, myself included.
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