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

Dutch non-profit set to take Valve to court for keeping game prices high

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News Someone else has a bone to pick with Valve's commission on Steam

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OpenAI says it busted a shadowy Chinese operation that used ChatGPT to whip up data centre hate (and that achieved basically nothing)

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News Hey, it's a living.

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Dragon's Dogma 2 hands out an infinite fast travel item after people wouldn't stop moaning about how laborious it was to go anywhere

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News That's the problem with this generation: iPhones and Eternal Ferrystones.

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Humble's offering a nearly buck-a-game deal on some of the best reactive narratives out there, including one of my personal favourite games of all time

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News Mon dieu.

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Old Persona 4 voice actor is 'deeply grieving' being recast in the remake: 'Everything in life is transient… Thank you for sharing the journey'

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News This was not our chance.

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The Fable reboot won't have horns and haloes because of its 'nuanced and complex' take on morality, and also because you're going to constantly reinvent yourself

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News It's like uni all over again.

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Studio says 'not every publisher' is swerving GTA 6's release and declares a November 5 release date for its game: 'Maybe we're just not afraid enough'

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News That's one way to gin up buzz.

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After everyone hated his AI Prada ad, Hideo Kojima says he's 'not interested' in AI

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News To be fair, I also rapidly lose interest in things once I've already been paid for them.

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After huge delays, will The Wolf Among Us 2 make you wait between episodes? CEO says 'We live in a Netflix era. People can't wait'

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News Wolfing it down.

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A colourful cityscape seen from an isometric point of view
We're getting a new Vampire: The Masquerade game and, hell yes, it's a 'narrative-driven CRPG' with big Disco Elysium vibes

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News These are all my keywords.

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War in Warhammer 40k.
We got a fresh look at Total War: Warhammer 40k and, friends, I'm already on board to do some horrible things to millions of spacemen

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News Like all good games, Total War: Warhammer 40k has me eager to do war crimes.

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A pink man climbs around the Pipes screensaver.
Pipes.exe is a co-op horror game about the world's favourite screensaver

By Joshua Wolens Published

News No, not the flying toasters.

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Garret from Thief.
Oh hell yes, Nightdive's next delicious remaster treat is Thief

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News 4K moss arrows just like I always dreamed.

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Mr Magpie presides over a used guillotine.
Mr Magpie's Harmless Card Game is Minesweeper but a deckbuilder where you're trapped in a horrible murder-lift

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News Much like the lifts at PC Gamer's office.

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Soldiers in Wardogs.
Wardogs looks like Battlefield with a persistent economy, and I'm fascinated by the consequences

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News It's a (war)dog eat (war)dog world.

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Knightly keyart showing numerous armoured figures.
Wardens of Avalon is knightly ARPG with an intriguing touch of… wait, city repair?

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News Together at last.

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A lineup of heroes in AfterQuest.
AfterQuest is a classic RPG roguelite where everyone's got oodles of lore—even your enemies

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News Hear my tale before you slay me. Or after. After works too.

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Key art for Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions
Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions lifts off June 11, and my plan is to immediately try to deform a planet out of existence

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news Not because it is easy, but because it is… funny.

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The gambling fridge in Sated.
Sated is a grimy cooking roguelike about preparing meals for biblically accurate horrors beyond knowing, and I'm signed up already

By Joshua Wolens Published

News I never go anywhere without my sentient gambling-addict fridge.

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Serious Sam Shatterverse keyart.
Serious Sam: Shatterverse brings together 25 years of Sam in an absurd bloodsoaked roguelite

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Bagsy portly Sam.

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A die dressed in wizard robes falls through the sky.
Spellsided is a strategy RPG where you play a hyper-customisable dice, and your challenges are 'a puzzle of your own design'

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News Roll for initiative.

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007 First Light's Land Rover ads cross the line from product placement to late-night infomercials

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Car Talk Dunrovin'.

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I stop looking for 5 seconds and now Crimson Desert has pinball and a rideable wyvern

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Sure. Fine. Why not?

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Persona 4 remake news feels all-but inevitable, but a little rating weirdness means I wonder about Golden content

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News Great vegetables.

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I never change weapons in RPGs, which means I've made Obsidian director Josh Sawyer's life a living hell when it comes to making cool armour systems

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News Sorry, Josh.

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