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
I loved the Fallout TV show, but I did it in spite of Bethesda's stifling take on the wasteland
By Joshua Wolens published
Wasted Potential Fallout's at its best when it lets itself grow and change.
Ghost of Tsushima will bring PlayStation trophies and friends to PC for the first time, making the walls between console and PC even more meaningless
By Joshua Wolens published
News What do you want? A trophy?
Victoria 3's first major expansion is getting punted back by 2 months so Paradox doesn't repeat the mistake of EU4's disastrous Leviathan release
By Joshua Wolens published
News Or at least, hopefully it means Paradox doesn't repeat the mistake of Leviathan.
The blasphemy of playing Half-Life with a gamepad is now easier as Black Mesa gets a sudden weighty update, devs tease 'more dangerous patch' to come
By Joshua Wolens published
News I admit it, I didn't foresee these consequences.
Bethesda's official SPECIAL scores for the Fallout show characters has me asking serious questions about the rizz of Walton Ghoulggins
By Joshua Wolens published
News That's one charming rotten killer.
The most underrated Deus Ex game is criminally cheap on Steam, even though you all deserve to pay more after being so mean about it
By Joshua Wolens published
News I've been carrying this grudge for 21 years.
Harold Halibut review: An undersea adventure that plays things too safe for its own good
By Joshua Wolens published
Better fish to fry Things aren't necessarily better down where it's wetter.
It is now my life's quest to acquire this tiny plastic Walton Goggins from the Amazon Fallout TV show
By Joshua Wolens published
News A bargain for a Goggins of my own.
Todd Howard says no Skyrim show for us even as critics go wild for Fallout
By Joshua Wolens published
News Todd says good TV is a matter of chemistry, not executive mandate.
EA's surprise megadump of classic Command & Conquer games means Europe's March game sales were dominated by 25-year-old RTSes, beating WWE 2K24 and Nintendo
By Joshua Wolens published
News And rightly so.
One of the most strange and cruel survival sandboxes I've played has sold 2.3 million copies
By Joshua Wolens published
News Kenshi is more popular than I would have guessed.
I can't make it 10 minutes in this free browser-based New York Times Sim without getting fired for commie agitprop
By Joshua Wolens published
News Newspaper of record time-to-firing.
Star Trek: Infinite reviews crater as Paradox announces it's dead, Jim
By Joshua Wolens published
News The company's stability crisis continues.
Palworld tactical genius melts through the 294,000 HP of its new raid boss in seconds by spamming a frame rate-destroying platoon of dragons
By Joshua Wolens published
News There's no power like firepower.
Surprise! Amazon's putting out the Fallout TV show a day early as a 'thank you' to fans, and a second season seems guaranteed
By Joshua Wolens published
News What in the goddamn…?
TF2 voice cast reunites to LARP their way through a beautiful recreation of 2009's Meet the Sniper video
By Joshua Wolens published
News I hope they keep making these forever.
Acclaimed indie studio Vlambeer springs back to life 4 years after declaring 'the end of Vlambeer'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Can't keep a good Vlam down.
10 years on, leaks have given us a long look at the canned Batman game that became Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
By Joshua Wolens published
News And boy, does it look like an Arkham game.
Forget Helldivers, the viral hit that's swallowing all my time is this free browser game about stopping the Nazis from coming to power
By Joshua Wolens published
News Or just plunging Germany into civil war, if you're me.
Cuba's 'first major indie game' is a gorgeous platformer about bad decisions and environmental catastrophe, so long as you can get over the checkpoints
By Joshua Wolens published
Savior It Saviorless hit PC this week after a very long development period.
Warner Bros follows up Matrix movie about capitalism annihilating culture in pursuit of profit by announcing a fifth Matrix movie
By Joshua Wolens published
News Somewhere, Guy Debord is punching his way out of a coffin.
With 800,000 copies of Dwarf Fortress sold, the newly minted millionaire creators' most high-roller purchase has been a Honda Civic
By Joshua Wolens published
News The game's premium version can be found on over a million wishlists, too.
XCOM's greatest DLC was almost a Battletech-style mech expansion before the game's camera scuppered it all: 'Our camera angle is not meant for 30 foot mechs, apparently'
By Joshua Wolens published
News But what we got was one of my favourite expansions ever, so no harm done.