Latest articles by Joshua Wolens
Despite always preferring turn-based combat in RPGs, Pillars of Eternity designer Josh Sawyer thinks a lack of experience and opportunity meant the studio couldn't pull off a similar swing to Larian taking Baldur's Gate turn-based
"I guess we did South Park, but other than that, we hadn't done turn-based ever, really."
New Vegas lead Josh Sawyer thinks turn-based combat fell off in the 2000s due to a lack of 'tactical variation': Even Fallout 1 would 'get to the point where you're always doing nut shots and eye shots'
news Real time with pause won the 2000s, but turn-based won the war.
EA's CEO pulled in $5 million more this year than last, while his employees took home the least money they've made since 2022
News Andrew Wilson was compensated to the tune of 260 times what the median EA employee took home in FY2025.
I screwed up Karlach's ending in Baldur's Gate 3: I thought I'd picked her best outcome but her actor says 'not very much' of her is actually left
News Honestly it was impossible for me to know it was a bad idea.
Deus Ex lead Warren Spector pops up to remind everyone he didn't make the game alone in a cave, wish you a happy 25th anniversary, and get me wondering if something Deus Ex-related is happening behind the scenes
News I said 'lead,' it's fine.
Outer Worlds 2 writes an enormous cheque it will soon have to cash: It's not just New Vegas-inspired, it's Deus Ex-flavoured too
News He might as well have signed an affidavit saying 'Josh I promise you will fall in love with this videogame.'
We've outgrown the need for BioShock, but you can get the whole trilogy plus Mafia 1, 2, and 3 for a mere $18 right now
News This thing of ours: now just under $20.
Wanna make mods for Stalker 2? That'll be 700 GB of hard drive space, please
News Honestly? I'm more impressed than anything.
Karlach's actor knows about the 3,138 'filthy' Baldur's Gate 3 stories you've written on fanfic sites and still sends all their love to fans for changing their life: 'I don't read it, but I am aware'
News The fandom has Tiefling fever.
I turn my back for one second and now Assassin's Creed Shadows has Critical Role in it
News Those guys are everywhere.
Who needs Bethesda? Oblivion Remastered modders have cooked up FO4-style settlement placing even without official support
News If you build it, they will come.
Türkiye's answer to Disco Elysium just broke cover, featuring more lawyers, fewer cops, an indeterminate amount of communism and twin fistfuls of guilt and regret
News Pera Coda swaps Revachol for Istanbul, but don't worry: there's still plenty of anguish.
System Shock 2's remaster is delayed for everyone but you and me
News Call an ambulance. But not for me.
Mario Kart 64 has a native PC port now thanks to the mad lads even Nintendo can't stop, who also ported Zelda and Star Fox
News Harbour Masters have done it again.
Cyberpunk 2077's surprise 2.3 patch gets a surprise delay as CDPR needs some time to aim 'for a scope similar to Update 2.2'
News Hey, take all the time you need.
Xbox emulator devs shoot down rumours they're in cahoots with Microsoft to bring Xbox games to PC: 'What f****** AI ChatGPT stuff have you been reading?'
News "Xenia continues to be a community-run effort that encourages and enforces legal emulation practices."
GOG says it won't repeat its ill-fated Daggerfall GOG Cut with its new one-click modding program, not least because it can send more than one message a day to modders now
news GOG won't be assuming personal responsibility over updates this time round.
Oblivion's dungeons suck, Skyblivion is making them better: 'That's where the power of a proper remake comes from'
news "We still have something to offer in that we have more or less redesigned every aspect of the game."
North Korea's only Steam user disappeared yesterday, but not to worry: They're back and gaming harder than ever
News Probably ragequit a CS match. Been there, man.
RuneScape player pulls off a personal Shawshank Redemption: Grinds his way out of one-zone house arrest by grinding a raid 2,000 times over 10,000 hours: 'It was all worth it'
News Makes the Moon landing look like a walk in the park.
Dark day for humanity as Gex Trilogy achieves 'huge success,' patches in its cursed EU voices from Red Dwarf's Cat and the 'Ding dong' guy
News Or Danny John-Jules and Leslie Philips, if you're a connoisseur.
