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

Dawn of War 4 just got a release date (or 2), a DLC roadmap, and Crusade Mode plans

By Joshua Wolens Published

News If you're in the mood for a crusade, you know.

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Witcher 3's heaviest scene stunned its devs into silence, but Cyberpunk 2's associate director says it was crucial for 'understanding the craft' of quest design

By Joshua Wolens Published

News It sure stunned me.

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Embracer Group cuts itself into pieces, this is its last resort: Bifurcation, new listing—licensing out Kain and JC Denton

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Would it be wrong? Would it be right? If I put Middle-earth on the NASDAQ tonight?

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81-year-old Minecraft streamer swatted while raising money for grandson's cancer treatment

By Joshua Wolens Published

GrammaCrackers says she's 'Never had that much attention in my life.'

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The rumours were true: Kingdom Come studio is working on an RPG set in Tolkien's Middle-earth

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Eru Iluvatar be praised!

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Tom Kane, voice actor whose work spanned Star Wars: KOTOR to The Powerpuff Girls' dad, dies aged 64

By Joshua Wolens Published

News "His voice became part of our lives, our memories, and the stories we carry with us."

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Steam killed its 'RPGMaker' user tag yesterday, and impacted devs are unexpectedly happy about it

By Joshua Wolens Published

News It maybe obscured more than it revealed.

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I just learnt I've been playing Metal Gear Solid 3 with a broken camera for 15 years

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Fresh off uncovering true third-person in MGS2, MGSHDFix is righting another historical wrong.

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'We are not a killing game,' says Subnautica 2 dev: 'Go play Sons of the Forest or something if you want to kill'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News And yes, they are gonna fix all those angry fish at your door.

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You can thank a bad Dungeons & Dragons DM for one of Shin Megami Tensei's coolest mechanics

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Like all great inventions, it's all thanks to spite.

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The best free games on Steam

By Joshua Wolens Last updated

Updated! Nothing but the best free Steam games you can play right now.

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GamesRadar has decamped to Kyoto to bring you some killer world premieres and trailers straight out of BitSummit Punch 2026

By Joshua Wolens Published

news We just came in and found a letter in Japanese on their desks. We assume this is what it says.

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IO Interactive has forgiven me for calling 007 a smug tool

By Joshua Wolens Published

News I am absolved of my sins until at least my next article.

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Germany cuts Steam Deck desktop devs a $1.5 million cheque, they declare an end to 'insecure spyware-riddled software imposed by the likes of Microsoft'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Linux. Maybe you've heard of it.

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Ken Levine says Steam Machine shows we're hitting 'diminishing returns' with bleeding-edge graphics tech—just look at BioShock to see why art is more important

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Keep your traced rays, I'm attaching barnacles to things.

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True 3rd-person view has been hidden in a single Metal Gear Solid 2 variable for 15 years—now we're finally getting it

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Which probably stings for that guy who modded it into the original game from scratch.

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Popular PlayStation emulator clamps down on AI submissions: 'Leave behind something useful to humanity when you're gone, instead of peddling slop'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News 'As for all the AI bros seething on our socials, we're simply blocking you.'

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Today I learned that Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski produced a Tony Award-winning musical

By Joshua Wolens Published

News CliffyB contains multitudes.

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eBay shoots down 'neither credible nor attractive' $56 billion GameStop offer from CEO who says 'I'm not going away. I'm a pain in the ass'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News You didn't win this auction.

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You're not paranoid—KCD2's devs gave Henry photo mode voicelines just to stop you abusing it for stealth runs

By Joshua Wolens Published

News The hungry lines are just hungry lines, though. And god bless them.

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After fining Google more money than exists on Earth, Russia demands so little from EA it feels like a weird joke

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Well one of these strategies has gotta work.

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Elder Scrolls 6 is a ways off, but who needs it? The world's most specific game jam is back with 40 playable entries based off Oblivion's wonderful/awful persuade-o-wheel

By Joshua Wolens Published

News The wheel has come full circle.

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CCP changed its name rather than pick a fight with the Chinese Communist Party, which was probably wise

By Joshua Wolens Published

News The EVE dev just has fewer armoured divisions, is all.

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Videogame 'beta versions' are anything but, says veteran RPG dev—real games are 'sh***y, sh***y, sh***y, sh***y, slightly less sh***y, and it skyrockets' at the end

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Better betas, but better.

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Sony records a $766 million impairment loss against Bungie for the 2025 financial year, a 1-2 punch of Destiny 2 and Marathon failing to meet its expectations

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Sony bought Bungie for $3.6 billion in 2022.

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