Joshua Wolens

Joshua Wolens

News Writer

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 modded GTA 5's NPCs to be punishable for their crimes, and also much more polite

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Los Santos Customs Oh, and I still keep falling asleep in the middle of the road.

Los Santos Customs
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.

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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.

Los Santos Customs
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

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Los Santos Custom Baby steps.

Los Santos Custom
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.

Late To Class
EverQuest Legends is the only MMO that could hook me in 2026

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Legendary Admittedly, I am a very specific type of guy.

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Legendary
After giving it 2 patches and dropping it like a stone, Bethesda promises to bring Switch 2 optimisations to Oblivion Remastered on other platforms

By Joshua Wolens Published

News I'll take it.

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Firefox stunts on Edge as Microsoft gears up to neuter adblockers: 'uBlock Origin isn't going anywhere'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Blocked. Blocked. Blocked. None of these corpo browsers are free of sin.

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Persona big boss says 'I think we have to do' remakes of the series' most-neglected games

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Put away your PSPs, friends.

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Marvel Rivals hits the Ozempic, comes back 40 GB lighter

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Svelte and superheroic.

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Larian drops new Baldur's Gate 3 stats and you're all monsters: More non-Durge players killed Alfira than Durge and, worst of all, 9,000 people played on portrait monitors

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Excuse me, I feel sick.

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I desperately need this TTRPG to become a videogame—it's one of the coolest things I've ever seen

By Joshua Wolens Published

News I am the foremost practitioner of sword dialectics.

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Our long Caribbean nightmare is over: You can hide the blow pipe in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced now

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Fashion assassin.

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My new favourite Tolkien game is free, has over 40 years of history, and would run on a toaster

By Joshua Wolens Published

Sil-Q Song Feeling Sil-y.

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Sil-Q Song
The next game on GOG's preservation list would be your favourite ARPG if it hadn't released the same year as Diablo 2, and it's on sale now

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Opportunity NOX twice.

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The latest ugly-cool immersive sim is scratching my itch for new Deus Ex

By Joshua Wolens Published

News And it lets you drive, which feels somehow momentous.

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That GOG gloss-up of Thief is an excellent way to play the game until we get the Nightdive remaster

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Calling all my friends 'taffer' from now on.

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2 Star Ocean games go DRM-free on GOG as the storefront promises it's working on embracing the Linux faithful

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Hallelujah.

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Nioh 3's first DLC hits in August, brings new weapons, a trip to the (sort of) future, and there's a mega-hard difficulty mode for the sickos

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Are you sickos?

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Vatican scrambles to patch 'phishing goldmine' app promoted by the Pope: 'Prayer infrastructure on the framework you learn in week 2 of a Node.js bootcamp'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Jesus Christ.

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Man in a gas mask.
Stalker 2's engine upgrade and first story expansion are due out in August

By Joshua Wolens Published

News If you've been waiting, this is when you can stop waiting.

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Modder restores missing PS2-era visual effects to Metal Gear Solid 2, including 'a ton of things that were literally left marked as BLUEPOINT TO-DO still in the source code'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News In fairness, I have a lot of unfinished things marked JOSH TO-DO going back to 2011 as well.

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Bethesda says layoffs haven't affected 'the roadmap' for The Elder Scrolls 6, it hasn't forgotten Oblivion Remastered, and it's not telling you this because Asha Sharma forced it to

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Well, that clears that up.

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Halo remake reviews totter as fans lament the 3 horsemen of 2026 game releases: Bugs, pointless logins, and duff servers

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Hold up, Chief.

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You have 3 days to obtain Big Boss rating in Metal Gear Solid 1's free-to-play period on Steam

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Off you pop.

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