
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

GOG says it won't repeat its ill-fated Daggerfall GOG Cut with its new one-click modding program, not least because it can send more than one message a day to modders now
By Joshua Wolens published
news GOG won't be assuming personal responsibility over updates this time round.

Oblivion's dungeons suck, Skyblivion is making them better: 'That's where the power of a proper remake comes from'
By Joshua Wolens published
news "We still have something to offer in that we have more or less redesigned every aspect of the game."

North Korea's only Steam user disappeared yesterday, but not to worry: They're back and gaming harder than ever
By Joshua Wolens published
News Probably ragequit a CS match. Been there, man.

RuneScape player pulls off a personal Shawshank Redemption: Grinds his way out of one-zone house arrest by grinding a raid 2,000 times over 10,000 hours: 'It was all worth it'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Makes the Moon landing look like a walk in the park.

Dark day for humanity as Gex Trilogy achieves 'huge success,' patches in its cursed EU voices from Red Dwarf's Cat and the 'Ding dong' guy
By Joshua Wolens published
News Or Danny John-Jules and Leslie Philips, if you're a connoisseur.

Steam turbo-charges its performance overlay, shows you how many real and framegen frames you're getting and, oh, Proton is enabled on Linux by default now
By Joshua Wolens published
News A buffet of stats awaits.

Stellar Blade sold a million units in 3 days on PC and you can mostly thank Chinese players
By Joshua Wolens published
News Stellar results.

Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital: 'The new owners are here… not sitting in a distant tower, remotely directing us all towards some nefarious goals'
By Joshua Wolens published
News "We won’t compromise on what’s made Nexus Mods special."

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is getting a 'cinematic cut' premiering at a Czech film festival: 'A proud moment for games as a serious storytelling medium'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Which, okay.

The Communist Manifesto – A Visual Novel review: No better than reading the book, but at least it lets you platinum Karl Marx
By Joshua Wolens published
Half Marx Choose your class.

Both Stellar Blade and Dune: Awakening shot into Steam's top 100 with new concurrent player peaks yesterday
By Joshua Wolens published
You know what they say: sand sells.

John Marston's actor has 'Exciting news' he's forbidden to tell us, and he practically has steam coming out of his ears trying not to spill the beans
By Joshua Wolens published
News What could it be?

Gooner game of the year Stellar Blade's mods are 41% smut, ensuring gamers will never see the light of heaven
By Joshua Wolens published
News It is, apparently, always possible for there to be less clothing.

'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events
By Joshua Wolens published
Jon Bellamy claimed the choice to dramatically curtail pride was to prevent backlash. That's caused an even bigger backlash.

Valve does its homework the night before deadline: Switches Steam to run on Mac chips right as Apple announces it's ditching Intel for good
By Joshua Wolens published
News Incredible news if you are A) Me B) One of like three other people on Earth.

There it is: Bloober Team is remaking Silent Hill 1 after everyone went gaga for its SH2 remake
By Joshua Wolens published
News Who could have seen this coming?

Dune: Awakening falls just shy of Steam's top 100 as it nets 142,000 players on its first proper launch day
By Joshua Wolens published
News Which is more people than I'd expect to find on a planet with, like, no water.

Anonymous employee accuses RuneScape of kowtowing to Trump as it puts the kibosh on new Pride events: 'The content… is now controversial in a way it didn't used to be'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Players and Jagex staff are both upset by an executive decision to scale back Pride celebrations.

They made Balatro for stock trading and I fear I may never write another article ever again
By Joshua Wolens published
News All my cards. Gone.

With Oblivion Remastered's first patch looming, I wish Bethesda had taken a leaf from CDPR's book and straight-up incorporated popular mods at launch
By Joshua Wolens published
Fan Service Gotta be better than reinventing the wheel, no?

If you've ever wanted to play an NPC in a Hitman level then do I have the Steam Next Fest demo for you
By Joshua Wolens published
News Elevator Music is a game of diplomacy, conspiracy, and making a room go up and down.

This medieval slasher looks like an '80s comic that inspired 100 death metal bands, and you should try its 10-minute Steam Next Fest demo
By Joshua Wolens published
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