Latest articles by Joshua Wolens
Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream review—Beautiful Scandinavian stealth that's too strict for its own good
Sandi Snake And who's Erik, anyway?
Stalker Trilogy fixes the issue that made me melt my PC with infinite quicksaves and repairs the blurry textures that have blighted players for months
News Nicely done, GSC.
It's time to sort your life out and marathon the finest WW2 real-time tactics games of the early '00s—and for a mere $10, too
News Well, early '00s and late '90s.
Modder behind the 'Swiss army knife of PC gaming' deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: 'By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope'
News "You no longer have the liberty of buying a game from wherever you want."
Sci-fi horror game Routine just came back to life for the 2nd time in 13 years: 'We are beginning to approach the finish line'
News Also, Mick Gordon left.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was a depression-fest because its writer is 'from Poland and people in Poland are sad. They are born sad, they die sad, so I just wanted to make the whole world sad'
News This is also why all English media is stultifyingly dull.
Chinese FMV game about getting 'revenge on gold diggers' plunges the country into online gender tumult
News Pretty much like we do on the anglophone internet all the time.
Baldur's Gate 3 actor Samantha Béart says people don't realise how awful Karlach was before the events of the game: 'I think she was a piece of work in hell'
News Béart says they imagine Karlach as someone who was forced to do awful things to survive in a kind of interplanar supermax prison.
Valve's reported profit-per-head from Steam commissions is out there, and at $3.5 million per employee it makes Apple and Facebook look like a lemonade stand
News No wonder Gabe Newell can afford all those boats.
Open-source Morrowind project just got an update 3 years in the making that might have me saying bye to the vanilla game for good—oh, and you can load Skyrim in it now
News Sure, why not.
Brace yourself: Hades 2 just got what 'will likely be our final patch' before full release
News
As fans lose it over sanitised nudity and violence, Ready or Not devs promise they haven't changed their 'creative vision': 'We’ve only made changes where absolutely required'
News It didn't help.
2023's true GOTY has had its name and assets jacked by 'some kind of crypto scam,' while bootlickers assure the dev it's actually great publicity
News Stonks-9800 deserves better than this.
Deus Ex devs say they weren't trying to make a statement when they made one of the most political games of all time: 'What I think is the right future for humanity is irrelevant. It's all about what each player thinks'
News A cabal of billionaires unleashing an artificial plague to further immiserate and exploit the underclass, but not in a political way.
Human spirit triumphs as the Croc devs announce they want to remaster Buck Bumble and the greatest main menu theme song of all time
News Biggity Buck, you see. Furthermore, boo to the boo.
Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam
News Which, I have to be honest, you could see coming a mile away.
Nexus Mods will soon require age verification for UK and EU users looking for its treasure trove of adult mods
News But it won't say what that looks like yet.
Good guy GSC wordlessly deletes ads in Stalker remaster menus with itsy-bitsy new patch
News Get out of here, Stalker ads.
The people who brought you the $165 Disco Elysium trash bag now bring you an $800 The Alters tracksuit
News For the next time you get stranded off-world.
'Oblivion Remastered with guns' becomes reality as modder jury-rigs a literal Glock into the game and shoots up an Oblivion Tower with it
News This Bosmer got that thang on him.
Ubisoft can't button its yap about the not-so-secret Black Flag remake—now Edward Kenway's voice actor is telling AC4 fans 'You might have to beat it again'
News To be fair, he's incredibly charming when he does it.
Despite always preferring turn-based combat in RPGs, Pillars of Eternity designer Josh Sawyer thinks a lack of experience and opportunity meant the studio couldn't pull off a similar swing to Larian taking Baldur's Gate turn-based
"I guess we did South Park, but other than that, we hadn't done turn-based ever, really."
