Joshua Wolens
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
One of the best fantasy 4Xs on PC is free while the Steam keys last
By Joshua Wolens published
News There's a lot of keys, but they aren't—wait for it—endless.
Call of Duty's going to Alt + F4 itself if it catches players turning on aim assist while using a mouse
By Joshua Wolens published
News Who needs Task Manager?
Old School RuneScape player says 'see ya at a million!' after pickpocketing 500,000 NPCs in a doomed quest for treasure under multiple self-imposed restrictions
By Joshua Wolens published
News Greening the log by any means necessary.
After a 6 year brawl, Billy Mitchell is back in the record books even though Twin Galaxies 'had all our ducks in a row' for a courtroom showdown
By Joshua Wolens published
News Mitchell's scores are back in Twin Galaxies' historical archives, but not in its modern and updated leaderboards.
Star-studded cinematic horror Until Dawn is getting a big screen adaptation, an 'R-rated love letter to the horror genre'
By Joshua Wolens published
News No Peter Stormare, no deal.
Spooky '90s call centre sim Home Safety Hotline has wired up a direct line to my heart
By Joshua Wolens published
Who you gonna call? Operators are standing by.
Batman: Arkham Knight mod fills age-old plot hole about how the Dark Knight stays hydrated, blasts Dr Pepper toward thugs 'at a solid 112MPH'
By Joshua Wolens published
News "FASTER THAN ANY BASEBALL PLAYER EVER."
Prison Architect 2 goes 3D, promises smarter inmates and the most improbably whimsical carceral state yet
By Joshua Wolens published
News PA2 is going to another dimension.
Someone made 'probably the biggest map ever in videogame history' in Garry's Mod, a multiverse octillions of kilometres wide that's half-magic, half-maths, and wholly mind-boggling
By Joshua Wolens published
News I think this means we can finally make Carl Sagan's apple pie recipe.
14 years in, modders have given me yet another reason to return to Fallout: New Vegas—an in-game multiplayer riddle contest with free games for the winner
By Joshua Wolens published
News Presumably a game that's not rigged from the start.
Minecraft is gonna let you live life as 'the great white shark, the Arctic wolf, a leopardess, and more' in a BBC team-up to teach you about life on planet Earth
By Joshua Wolens published
News That's edutainment.
Rockstar banned T-Pain from playing GTA Online RP while he works on GTA 6, then bought the RP mod makers anyway: 'Y'all told me I couldn't do this s*** then y'all teamed up with the people that enable the RP s*** to happen?'
By Joshua Wolens published
News "They had this whole speech."
Starfield data miner uncovers fossilized remains of a much cooler, more hardcore game tucked away in its files: 'We had a washed version of the game'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Bring back micrometeoroids, Todd.
After 10 years, Titan Forge unveils Smite 2, bringing the god-battling MOBA to UE5 and offering goodies to old-timers
By Joshua Wolens published
News The studio promises to support both Smite 1 and 2 "simultaneously" in future.
The nicest community in gaming has over 8 million members and an urgent friendly fire crisis as Deep Rock Galactic releases its 2023 stats
By Joshua Wolens published
News Is this what they mean by "friendliest"?
Minecraft Legends goes into maintenance mode 9 months after release, as devs announce they're 'going to take a step back from development'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Mojang and Blackbird say the process of using player feedback to improve the game is now "complete."
Microsoft rides the AI wave to a $2.9 trillion market cap, beating Apple as the most valuable corporation on Earth
By Joshua Wolens published
News A number so large I can't even fit it in my head.
Jennell Jaquays, legendary designer who shaped both tabletop and videogames, has died
By Joshua Wolens published
News Jaquays helped shape tabletop games almost from the start before working on some bonafide legends of videogame history.
Dell founder says calm down about SHODAN-style sentient AI because 'you remember the ozone layer and all' and we fixed that
By Joshua Wolens published
News Well that's a weight off my mind.
CD Projekt narrative director declares Cyberpunk 2077 'just a warm-up' as work kicks off on the sequel
By Joshua Wolens published
News The kind of warm-up that produces a devastating injury, but a warm-up nonetheless.
League of Legends forced to immediately redesign its new dragon champ after fans point out its alarming similarity to an actual human child
By Joshua Wolens published
News Original Smolder was too smooth to exist on our planet.
Tekken 8 somehow lassoes Succession star Brian Cox to give you the breakdown on 3 decades of Devil Gene lore and cliff throwing
By Joshua Wolens published
News Either that or I'm having some kind of episode and need to get to an emergency room.
Old School RuneScape player beats worse odds than a lottery jackpot to become the second player in history to nab the game's rarest drop
By Joshua Wolens published
News Some people have all the luck. And one uncut onyx.