Latest articles by Joshua Wolens
Google's toying with nonsense AI-made headlines on articles like ours in the Discover feed, so please don't blame me for clickbait like 'BG3 players exploit children'
News With the power of AI, data centres the size of a kolkhoz can now write clickbait instead of underpaid journalists at struggling websites.
Hideo Kojima will make furry criminals regret their words and deeds as a mole who is also a cop in Zootopia 2
News All those words I just wrote are true.
Helldivers 2 cuts its install size from '~154GB to ~23GB' in a beta you can opt into now, defeating liberty-hating storage reqs with 'no functional differences' between versions
News And now I need to know how many of the other storage-hogs on my hard drive could do this.
Swen Vincke unable to utter 'giant Withers naturals' as Baldur's Gate 3 celebrates its 3rd Christmas with large rabbits, Baldstarion, and a 1996 Lada Riva
News That's all D&D, to me.
Dispatch being 'basically a live-service game for a month' did gangbusters, but leads say don't expect to copy it and get the same result
News "If you think episodic alone is going to be the thing that dictates success for you, then good luck!"
Rockstar co-founder compares AI to 'mad cow disease,' and says the execs pushing it aren't 'fully-rounded humans'
News Dan Houser probably won't be asking ChatGPT for help with his next game.
Great news: Yakuza Kiwami 3 will let you improve Kiryu's 'Daddy Rank'
News Should be max right from the start to be honest.
The AI slop-hose comes to Let It Die as its surprise sequel reveals 'voices, music, and graphics' shaped by the tech
News "AI-generated content has been used and then edited by our team."
Assassin's Creed Shadows has no plans for more expansions like Claws of Awaji, a first for the series in its modern form
News But expect "sparse" yet "chunky" updates to come.
Original Yakuza 0's getting delisted from Steam on December 8, but you can tuck away a GOG copy for 45% off right now
News We're through the looking glass.
Obsidian says The Outer Worlds 2 isn't a deliberate critique of capitalism, which is even more ridiculous than the time Fallout's co-creator said that isn't either
News What's better than a thoughtful analysis of history? How about a vague shrug of the shoulders?
Galaxy Princess Zorana is like if you made BG3 passive checks into a whole game, a great tale of political intrigue, and will give you like 4,000 ways to die embarrassingly
News What more could you ask?
The fantasy RPG that started as a viral AI-made video is 'free of AI-generated content,' pledges its maker
Shores of Vaelithar was made by humans. It promises.
After 17 years, Ubisoft is hiring up for Beyond Good and Evil 2, a definitely real videogame that exists
News Come join us on the voyage of the damned.
The ESRB just leaked a Death Stranding 2 PC port, and I think we can say bye-bye to Jim Ryan's '2 or 3 year' wait for PlayStation games on PC
News If trends continue, PS exclusives will shortly release on PC first, somehow.
In a relatable bout of impostor syndrome, Clair Obscur actor Charlie Cox says please give all the credit to mocap actor Maxence Cazorla after he nabs a Game Awards nom
News It's not the hours in the booth, it's how you use them.
Disappeared survival horror Cold Fear magically returns in GOG's immortal games lineup, with 4K, crash fixes, and support for modern controllers
News Joined by Ubisoft's 2012 I Am Alive, no less, which it turns out is alive.
Microsoft spits in God's face with Xbox-style Crocs that cost $80 and the sum total of your dignity
News We were given this whole planet, and look what we've done with it.
Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor Jennifer English has advice for AI pushers: 'Don't'
News "Mistakes are beautiful."
Estimates peg Valve as a capitalism fusion reactor, making such ungodly money per employee that it's no wonder Gabe Newell bought all those yachts and the whole damn yacht company
News But bear in mind estimates are all we have to go off until an accountant leaves Valve's books in a bar.
Udo Kier, star of Red Alert 2 and Hideo Kojima's OD, dies aged 81: 'There will never be another like him. Udo, rest in peace'
News Kier's career spanned movies, TV, games, and even music videos.
Skyrim's hardest quest is raising my Fat Idiot Son
Sonless Sky That's not a judgment. That's literally his essence.
Ubisoft says AI is 'as big a revolution for our industry as the shift to 3D,' its magical AI NPCs are out of prototyping, and you bet it's got 'all our studios' working with the tech
News Oh. Good.
