Latest articles by Joshua Wolens
Steam has finally got rid of those goddamn clown awards
Begone, and never blight my forums, reviews, or guides again.
GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software… I can't believe it!'
News He's just like me, for real.
Wrestling the Steam 'Goliath,' pulling a Nightdive, and seeing off vulture capital: GOG chats the risks and opportunities of its future as a company without CD Projekt
Acts of GOG GOG is an independent storefront. What now?
Palworld takes the 'red rag to a bull' approach to its Nintendo lawsuit, announces 'a 2-player competitive card game'
News A card game where you fight using the monsters in your pocket. What's not to like?
Steam defies RAM-ageddon and the AI-pocalypse to smash through a new concurrent user record, and I'll see you back here in like 4 months when it somehow does it again
News Unbent, unbowed, unbroken.
'I wish Wyll had gotten more content' says the Baldur's Gate 3 writer who wrote him, and splitting his story between devils and dads 'might have been a mistake in hindsight'
News I like Wyll fine, but he never feels like he gets the airtime that, say, Astarion does.
9 big things Steam needs to improve in 2026
Steam Wishlist Hey Steam, we know you don't have much competition, but there's still a lot you should do.
Larian swears off gen AI concept art tools and says 'There is not going to be any GenAI art in Divinity,' but it's still 'trying [AI] things out across departments'
News Anyone else nervous?
Attacks on Kingdom Come: Deliverance for gay romance, representation 'only mattered to a handful of terminally online culture warriors,' reckons KCD2's exec producer, and probably didn't impact the games' reception
News For all the noise, Martin Klíma reckons the result of KCD1 and 2's controversies was probably a whole lotta nothing.
Is today's puzzle game scene interesting? 'No, I don't think it is,' says Jonathan Blow, even though there are 'really good games in the past' devs could look to for inspiration
News "If it's just a difficulty challenge that's not really that interesting."
Don't be scared of AI, says Troy Baker, because it's gonna push us toward 'the authentic' rather than 'the gruel that gets distilled to me through a black mirror'
News Which seems a little pollyannaish, to me.
Between bots calling themselves 'Mecha-Hitler' and 95% of businesses realising they don't know the point of AI, 2025 was the year the tech lost its shine even for the most blinkered execs
AI ay ay ay It's gonna change the world. Once we figure out what to do with it and it stops being a Nazi. But after that for sure.
Just when you think there's no room for shooters to innovate, here's one where your health is literally your framerate
News Tried to rocket jump and now everything's a slideshow.
I give up: They're doing no-hit Souls trilogy runs with a saxophone now
News None of my accomplishments mean anything.
What games did you play over the holidays?
HAPPY NEW YEAR One last look back at the Christmas break.
The Splinter Cell-ish game where you're a North Korean soldier guarding a K-Pop star has gone dark: Its YouTube channel is silent and we haven't seen the director since September
News Mudang: Two Hearts might need a defib.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 nearly had a San-Andreas-like Fat Henry system that would have let you create Bohemia's chunkiest boy, and forced you to wear clothes that fit to boot
News Now? He just feels quite hungry.
Not only does Todd Howard not hate Obsidian, it was his 'only choice' to take up Fallout's reins in the wake of Fallout 3
News After all, it did a great job with KOTOR 2.
You've got 1 week left to play Anthem, the game that mortally wounded the one-time king of RPG studios
News Anthem's road is a long and sorry one.
Kill the algorithm in your head: Let's set up RSS readers and get news we actually want in 2026
Keep it simple We finally have the technology to present users with a chronological list of content. They said it couldn't be done.
I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop
/root Now if you don't mind I'm going to delete the root folder and see what happens.
System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Edition is the absolute gold standard of remasters
🏆 No, really: Look at you, hacker.
I plugged 12 game names into Google Translate and kept hitting go—how many can you guess the original title of?
Lost in translation Fancy a game of Terrible Problem?
