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
China: Mao's Legacy is like an absurdly specific Paradox game on a tight budget, and also one of the best sims I've ever played
By Joshua Wolens published
CPC Gamer How did Yukong move the mountains? Abusing save slots.
Ex-BioWare dev explains why everyone in Mass Effect and Dragon Age does that one 'BioWare turn' animation
By Joshua Wolens published
News I should go.
Horizon Zero Dawn's questionable remaster launches to Mixed reviews as players lament a new mandatory PSN sign-in that wasn't in the original, visual glitches, and audio bugs
By Joshua Wolens published
News Maybe wait for a patch.
Congratulations to the perhaps 7 people who were waiting for Cyberpunk 2077 to hit their MacBooks
By Joshua Wolens published
News Praise be to Tim.
I tracked down the guy who gave a negative review to Battlezone 98 Redux after playing for over 8,000 hours, and came away convinced he was right
By Joshua Wolens published
In the zone Scott Smith is a kind of living Battlezone encyclopaedia. Obviously, I had to speak to him.
The PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted returns to reveal the 25 most-anticipated PC games this December
By Joshua Wolens published
News As judged by our mysterious Council of experts.
Russia has fined Google $2,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or more money than actually exists on Earth, all because it's upset about some YouTube channels
By Joshua Wolens published
News Putin probably wants somewhere to upload his Twitch streams.
The Red Dead Redemption PC port isn't a GTA Trilogy-style disaster, it's now the best way to play the game
By Joshua Wolens published
Darn tooting It is still $50, though.
The Day Before studio is up to its old tricks, asking people to design maps for free in a contest whose lucky winner will get their work in a game, a free copy, and no money whatsoever
By Joshua Wolens published
News What an offer.
No Man's Sky dev pulls out all the stops to fix a player's buggy save with 611 hours of playtime at risk: 'I promise to hawk that bug and fix it'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Hello Games simply can't stop fixing No Man's Sky.
As US politics goes totally off the rails, Kamala Harris says to hell with it, let's start a Fortnite map
By Joshua Wolens published
News 2024 keeps giving.
The most promising Disco Elysium successor studio says workers must unite to topple Valve's 'digital fiefdom' of Steam
By Joshua Wolens published
News So comrades, come rally.
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?
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