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'm intrigued by this political sim that puts you smack-dab in Germany at the end of World War 1

By Joshua Wolens Published

News When everything was going incredibly fine.

News
A triple image showing three WoW characters and their players.
We tried to earn as much gold in WoW: Forever as we could in 2 hours—which involved a mugging, slander, and at least one crashout

By Harvey Randall, Joshua Wolens, Fraser Brown Published

TIME IS MONEY Wisdom, charisma, and courage.

TIME IS MONEY
Help, I have been abducted by a tiny car and cannot escape

By Joshua Wolens Published

Los Santos Customs Also, where are the deer?

Los Santos Customs
UK, London, Big Ben and British flag.
British voter Wordle

By Joshua Wolens Published

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I've added scams to GTA 5, but I might have scammed myself

By Joshua Wolens Published

Los Santos Customs At least I have a stylish new bag.

Los Santos Customs
I am cavorting with a gazelle's grace in Grand Theft Auto 5

By Joshua Wolens Published

Los Santos Customs More than usual, I mean.

Los Santos Customs
Forget what PC Gamer said: The Witcher 3 will always be my 2015 GOTY

By Joshua Wolens Published

Tubthumping And now it looks better than ever.

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Tubthumping
I added October-appropriate zombies to Grand Theft Auto 5

By Joshua Wolens Published

Los Santos Customs Brains, and so on.

Los Santos Customs
Grand Theft Auto 5 is a game about shapeshifting now. I don't make the rules

By Joshua Wolens Published

Los Santos Customs I mean, I guess I sort of do.

Los Santos Customs
Sound the 'This week's free Epic Games Store game is worth logging in for' alarm

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Nightdive's System Shock 2 is a superlative remaster of the best game with 'Shock' in its title, and it's free.

News
Great news, cowards: The Witcher 3's most yellow-bellied mod works with the remaster

By Joshua Wolens Published

News What's the matter? Scared of a little meat on your witcher?

News
Fallout 25th anniversary
We're probably not getting a new Fallout game until well into the 2030s, but that's no reason to stop talking about them

By Jody Macgregor, Christopher Livingston, Lauren Morton, Andy Chalk, Joshua Wolens Published

Picnic Prattle The bombs may fall for real before then.

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Picnic Prattle
I have saved GTA 5 from death and also added tornadoes

By Joshua Wolens Published

Los Santos Customs These were two separate tasks.

Los Santos Customs
My GTA 5 install has a death wish but I have soothed it with flossing

By Joshua Wolens Published

Los Santos Customs It'd work for me.

Los Santos Customs
How every major character in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment would fare if they had to survive the plot of Halo 1

By Joshua Wolens Published

Chieftersburg That's right. I finally did it.

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Chieftersburg
Do you guys like videogames

By Joshua Wolens Published

Action
I have broken GTA 5 by installing so many mods that the game only launches in windowed mode now

By Joshua Wolens Published

Los Santos Customs Which I'm taking as a… win?

Los Santos Customs
Geralt admires a sunset.
Here's a gallery of the times The Witcher 3's remastered lighting had me like, 'Damn'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News It simply looks rather nice.

News
Geralt fights drowners.
Here's a few minutes of me being bad at The Witcher 3's remastered combat

By Joshua Wolens Published

News At least I didn't accidentally whip out my lantern this time.

News
Split image of tub Geralt in his original and remastered forms.
Here is your world-first comparison between original and remastered Tub Geralt in The Witcher 3

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Geralt now 600% more damp.

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News
I saw the future and it literally stinks

By Joshua Wolens Published

The Nose Knows You absolutely do not need it. I feel obliged to note this.

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The Nose Knows
For Warhorse's 15th birthday, we chatted with its co-founder about the demand for 'grown-up' RPGs, AI, why games are too cheap, and his role in the collapse of communism

By Joshua Wolens Published

Year of the Horse Just a regular convo, then.

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Year of the Horse
I made the hot dog vendors in GTA 5 work because Rockstar never did

By Joshua Wolens Published

Los Santos Customs Higher body count than I was expecting.

Los Santos Customs
The Dragonborn looking up and shouting
8 strong Elder Scrolls opinions: With over 2,500 combined hours (and not all as stealth archers), we shout at each other about Skyrim, Morrowind, and Oblivion

By Christopher Livingston, Ted Litchfield, Harvey Randall, Jody Macgregor, Joshua Wolens Published

Thu'um Call Five editors Mid-Vur-Share their thoughts for the past and future of the series.

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Thu'um Call
My greatest GTA 5 challenge yet: Random teleports every 50 seconds

By Joshua Wolens Published

Los Santos Customs Excuse m- *poof*.

Los Santos Customs
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