Latest articles by Joshua Wolens
You probably have like $100 in Steam trading cards on all those games you've never played, and you can get it without ever actually launching them
Idle Hands We're all just workers on Gaben's farm.
Gabe Newell acquires yacht company building the $400 million ocean-fortress he'll pick up later this year, because he 'respects the sea'
News I respect the sea. Where's my yacht company?
Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag actor says Ubisoft threatened to sue him for blabbing about the remake that everyone and their grandma knows is coming
Everything is permitted. Not that, though.
Thank god: Battlefield 6 won't make you use the EA App on Steam (but it will if you're on Epic)
News The evil is defeated. On the one platform, anyway.
Baldur's Gate 3 fixes Astarion looking like your granddad on Facetime and Dark Urge forgetting they have amnesia with a 'room temperature fix'
News No, no, lift the camera up slightly. No, up.
Hideo Kojima says he won't play the MGS 3 remake, mentions he knows loads of ways to kill people, doesn't elaborate, leaves
News He remembers the basics of CQC.
Steam has a razzle-dazzle new video player that's actually usable, but press F for the unlucky Valve employees who had to re-encode all 400,000+ trailers on the platform
News Unnamed heroes, all.
PC's sky-high growth has carried Japan's games market on its back for 7 years, but the forecast is it's set to slow down
News Hey, look, I didn't do it.
Oblivion Remastered lets you shatter whole buildings like Fabergé eggs with mod that resurrects spirit of Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
News Take that, society.
'We're not making GTA': Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is channeling the best part of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided—a dense hub instead of a huge open world
News Oh no, those are all my keywords.
It's a golden age for weird Eastern European games—you can tell because I'm in love with a horror puzzler about 2 old men trying to find evil in the woods
News One-Eyed Likho feels like a Russian cinematographer tried to make a horror film in 1909.
Judge sends ChatGPT-using lawyer to AI school with $5,500 fine after he's caught creating imaginary caselaw: 'Any lawyer unaware that using generative AI platforms to do legal research is playing with fire is living in a cloud'
News A prompt verdict.
Itch.io releases list of the adult content you can't put on its store anymore after anti-NSFW crackdown, including stuff that's not illegal but just icky
I'm not sure it's any processor's business to stop people buying this.
Astarion voice actor Neil Newbon sinks his fangs into AI and shreds it: 'AI sucks … It doesn't have the happy accident possibility that are those great moments in film'
News You don't get Baldur's Gate 3's acting with AI, I tell you that much.
9 million people have played Oblivion Remastered, and you've gotta think that number has Bethesda looking at its other old games and drooling
News That's a lotta closed Oblivion gates.
Gabe Newell says he founded Valve after Doom showed him Microsoft 'was missing the opportunity' offered by the internet: 'I was willing to sort of put my money where my mouth was'
News "And if I was wrong, I'd have to go back to Microsoft."
If you loved Baldur's Gate 3 then you probably shouldn't pick up this $10 bundle of incredibly crusty D&D games, but if you're cool you should
News I don't make the rules.
Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader dev Owlcat comes out swinging in support of Stop Killing Games: 'Every player deserves lasting access to what they’ve paid for'
News Which, in fairness, is pretty easy for an old-school CRPG dev to say.
Assassin's Creed Shadows has its summer roadmap and, with all due respect, how did it take this long to get a fast-forward time option?
News The greatest tool of the shinobi is the nap.
Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam
News It's not a great precedent, that's for sure.
A mere 8 years on, Assassin's Creed is bringing 'power and violence and sex and greed and vengeance' to Netflix as a TV show
News Put me in the animus to see what my ancestors thought about the Assassin's Creed TV show announcements from their lifetimes.
Nintendo's found its Zelda and Link for the upcoming movie—and British soap opera Emmerdale finally gets the silver screen recognition it deserves
News What will Marion and Chas Dingle make of this (I googled the characters in Emmerdale)?
