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

Marvel Rivals hits the Ozempic, comes back 40 GB lighter

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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News Opportunity NOX twice.

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

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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

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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

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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

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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'

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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

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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'

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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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Amazon walks back comments about taking 007 off of IO, but does say 'anything's possible' when it comes to buying the studio outright

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Not quite what I wanted to hear.

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Early '90s animation tools were so primitive that Doom's lead artist says he pretty much did the whole thing with 'the undo key'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News The UnDoom key, if you will.

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Hideo Kojima's worked out exactly how he wants to die: Kicking the popcorn bucket

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News Gotta admire a man who knows what he likes.

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Valve puts some elbow grease into Steam Remote Play—maybe one day you won't have to install additional tools to get the best in-home game streaming experience

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News I want 59.94 frames precisely, waiter.

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A modder has brought No Man's Sky-style seamless takeoffs to Starfield, and even in beta they look pretty great

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News Going up.

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The Witcher 3's expansion reveal is scheduled for next month

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News And other headlines that could come from 2026 or 2015.

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I'm very into this Papers, Please-esque puzzle game about identifying traitors to the socialist motherland

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News Hey, it's a living.

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The best Deus Ex sequel is a 2009 fan-mod set in a living forum where you attack enemies with sporks and foons, and no I am not joking

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Just look past the mid-2000s internet humour.

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That Game of Thrones RTS is still coming, still very HBO, but no longer due out this year

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News They're checking the stables for Tyrek Lannister.

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