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
Fallout 1 fan-remake taps out just 2 months after it got a meaty demo, but promises it's not because of 'infighting' or Bethesda meddling
By Joshua Wolens published
News Fallout: Vault 13 is traipsing into the Wasteland for good.
Denuvo opens its own Discord server to rehabilitate its image, has to shut it down 2 days later after players flood in to bully it
By Joshua Wolens published
News Who could have seen this coming?
Steam has taken down 'over 260 materials containing illegal content' from its Russian store, brags the country's media censorship agency
By Joshua Wolens published
News If you're on the registry of banned materials, you're out.
Let Me Solo Her escapes 180-day Elden Ring ban after the FromSoft cops sent him down for installing Fortnite dances
By Joshua Wolens published
News Our boy is free.
Skyrim lead says Bethesda was knocked back by furious response to Oblivion Horse Armour DLC, but it sold 'millions' anyway: 'You're all making fun of it and yet you buy it'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Yup, sounds about right for a massive videogame controversy.
Larian teases 'something so small before something so big' as Baldur's Gate 3 gets its 28th hotfix
By Joshua Wolens published
News What does Larian have cooking?
Streets of Rogue 2's Steam Next Fest demo is catnip for immersive sim and Dwarf Fortress sickos, and nothing proves that like my time as a Chef on a quest to kill the mayor
By Joshua Wolens published
Rogue Two It ain't done, but what's already there is great fun.
Skyrim's lead designer admits Bethesda games lack 'polish,' but at some point you have to release a game even if you have a list of 700 known bugs
By Joshua Wolens published
News I say: Embrace the bugs.
The 8 most heartbreaking cuts from this year's PC Gamer Top 100
By Phil Savage published
Top 100 We only have 100 spots to list. Not every game is going to make it.
The top 100 PC games
By Phil Savage published
Class of 2024 Welcome to the 2024 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games around.
You'll soon be able to watch a Grand Theft Auto Online production of Hamlet in theatres across the US as Machinima achieves total cultural victory
By Joshua Wolens published
News Something is rotten in the state of Los Santos.
A Disco Elysium successor studio has been announced for the second time today, meaning there are now 4 companies battling for the title of ZA/UM's true inheritor
By Joshua Wolens published
News There are now as many ZA/UM successors as there are Workers' Internationals, appropriately enough.
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.
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