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 have filled GTA 5 with realistic Los Angeles snow
By Joshua Wolens Published
Los Santos Customs Chestnuts roasting on an open car-fire.

I installed a mod that adds building interiors to GTA 5, at the low cost of deleting most of the map's exterior
By Joshua Wolens Published
Los Santos Customs You win some, you lose some.

Alien: Isolation 2's Gamescom demo kept its cards close to its chest, but I'm definitely ready to be terrified again
By Joshua Wolens Published
Xenonaut Just, you know, give me a minute to collect myself.

I modded GTA 6 leak-accurate car fuelling into GTA 5
By Joshua Wolens Published
Los Santos Customs It's a sim now. I'm a sim now.

I modded a GTA 6-like 'wanted system' into GTA 5
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Los Santos Customs Help, wanted.

Okay, I wasn't expecting 'Rainbow Six XCOM' to be one of my favourite Gamescom demos
By Joshua Wolens Published
X-TOM And yet, here we are.

Nekome: Nazi Hunter is about gleefully butchering fascists in Germany and America, but its devs swear it's not political
By Joshua Wolens Published
Antifash-ish Nekome is an interesting, politically bold game, even if its studio tried to convince me it isn't.

I added player-seeking hit squads to GTA 5, though the billion other mods I have installed keep getting in their way
By Joshua Wolens Published
Los Santos Customs 47 never had this problem.

I have modded many dogs, several cows, 2 lions, and a chimpanzee into Grand Theft Auto 5, and they are all my friends
By Joshua Wolens Published
Los Santos Customs Rolling deep.

I have solved the male loneliness epidemic in Grand Theft Auto 5
By Joshua Wolens Published
Los Santos Customs Reach out to your fellow human beings. And give them piggybacks.

I added a gang notoriety system to GTA 5, but it mostly seems to make them murder everyone except me
By Joshua Wolens Published
LS Customs Which, you know, is positive I guess.

We saw The Witcher 3 – Songs of the Past in action, and the full-game remaster that's coming this year too
By Joshua Wolens Published
Picking Dandelion Just when he thought he was out, Songs of the Past pulls Geralt back in.

Metro 2039 takes us back to Moscow, but it's still got some delicious bits of Exodus in there
By Joshua Wolens Published
Going Under Delicious up until you realise you've wasted all your gas mask juice trying to open a closet door.

I attempted to become a professional driver in a GTA 5 where every car had no friction
By Joshua Wolens Published
Los Santos Customs Gotta make ends meet somehow.

I turned car friction off in GTA 5. Help
By Joshua Wolens Published
Los Santos Customs I have died 400 times in the last 20 seconds. I have accelerated Samsara's Wheel to the speed of light.

The first physical PC game I remember playing shows what Sony is thoughtlessly destroying
By Joshua Wolens Published
Phys Ed Me and a bunch of big-box PC games are going to go full boomer or prove a very important point.

Don't tell Nintendo, but I turned GTA 5 into Pokémon Go using a mod
By Joshua Wolens Published
Los Santos Customs Also, probably don't tell Rockstar.

Today in GTA 5 mods: Turning Franklin into a walking car-cannon
By Joshua Wolens Published
Los Santos Customs This is why we need public transport investment.

I modded GTA 5's NPCs to be punishable for their crimes, and also much more polite
By Joshua Wolens Published
Los Santos Customs Oh, and I still keep falling asleep in the middle of the road.

Stop waiting to play Stalker 2: The 2.0 update makes it the game it's wanted to be for 2 years
By Joshua Wolens Published
News Get in here, Stalker.

I modded GTA 5 into a life-sim RPG with mining, foraging, a mini-economy, and the ability to fall asleep in the middle of the road
By Joshua Wolens Published
Los Santos Customs Which is what it's always been missing.

I'm modding GTA 5 every day until it becomes GTA 6 or breaks, starting with a new vehicle and enough missiles to level a city block
By Joshua Wolens Published
Los Santos Custom Baby steps.

I played the economic simulator that could 'make a convert out of Karl Marx himself' to see if it could convert me
By Joshua Wolens Published
Late To Class Though I'm not Karl Marx, just in case you're confused.
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