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
Spotify registers ridiculous increase in Tom Petty streams as GTA 6 trailer drives everyone dad rock mad
By Joshua Wolens published
News A not so petty increase.
Armello studio lays off over half its staff and 'indefinitely' pauses development on its ongoing early access game because 'almost all funding and investment has evaporated from the videogame industry'
By Joshua Wolens published
News League of Geeks is the latest studio to be struck by 2023's tidal wave of layoffs.
Steam's second most-wishlisted game puts out bizarre set of 'revelations' ahead of release: 'Please don't accuse us of scamming; that's not true'
By Joshua Wolens published
News The Day Before comes out the day after tomorrow.
GTA 6 trailer sends fans into frenzy, earns game dev praise, and leads people to ponder their inevitable demise: 'What if we die before GTA 6 releases in 2025?'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Is everyone okay out there?
The devs of this 'freaky and grotesque' adventure game about a Russian Orthodox nun left Moscow after the invasion of Ukraine, and they're out 'to show that people and authorities are not the same thing'
By Joshua Wolens published
News The narrative of Indika's development is almost as unique as the narrative of Indika.
Holstin is a Polish survival horror game that upends everything I thought I knew about camera perspective, and the vibes are flawless
By Joshua Wolens published
News Set in a small Polish town in 1992, Holstin promises to be like nothing I've played before in more ways than one.
Twitter owner Elon Musk tells departing advertisers to 'Go f*** yourself' in baffling on-stage interview: 'This advertising boycott is going to kill the company… Let's see how Earth responds to that'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Musk was being interviewed as part of the New York Times' DealBook Summit.
Sega admits Creative Assembly's live service push happened because it was drunk on 'the favorable winds of the early Covid-19 period,' says the studio will focus on RTS games from now on
By Joshua Wolens published
News "To put it simply, Creative Assembly was good at offline games in the RTS genre."
Geralt gets out of the bathtub and onto your tabletop in new Witcher expansion for Unmatched, the board game where he can fight King Arthur and Spider-Man
By Joshua Wolens published
News Or a T-Rex, or Dr Jekyll, or the cast of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Millions of people have bought Cyberpunk 2077's Phantom Liberty expansion, and even other devs are impressed
By Joshua Wolens published
News What's really punk is a respectable attachment ratio.
Ubisoft accidentally releases Beyond Good and Evil remaster, remembers it doesn't do that sort of thing, attempts to scrub all trace from the internet, then gives up and announces it anyway
By Joshua Wolens published
News Someone hit a big, red Release button. How were they supposed to know what it did?
Skyrim player amasses 267,000 gold lifetime bounty after killing 'everything that was killable,' and all you can really do is tearfully salute it
By Joshua Wolens published
News In every time, in every place, the deeds of people with an open world and too much free time remain the same.
Take a break from deal-hunting with the most bamboozling Cyber Monday deals of 2023
By Katie Wickens published
The strangest and worst Cyber Monday deals out there.
Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya says 'it would be a disaster' if he ever collaborated with Hideo Kojima or Yoko Taro: 'It doesn't work like in Dragon Ball'
By Joshua Wolens published
News No Metal Nier: Bayonetta for us.
No Starfield? No problem! Turn Mass Effect into the first-person space RPG of your dreams with this mod
By Joshua Wolens published
News The real Starfield was the friends we made back in 2007.
The reason we got Left 4 Dead 2 as a standalone game was because the first one 'was such a broken thing that nobody wanted to touch it'
By Joshua Wolens published
News The first Left 4 Dead was more delicate than it first appeared.
It's 2023 and my PC should be a better console
By Joshua Wolens published
Couch Potato The plight of the living room PC gamer is real.
Mimimi's swan song is 2 same-day expansions for Shadow Gambit before the studio shuts its doors forever
By Joshua Wolens published
News The DLCs don't have names yet, but we'll undoubtedly hear more soon.
Witcher author Andrzej Sapkowski says Netflix 'never listened' to his ideas, and as for the games 'I have no time for this'
By Joshua Wolens published
News But at least he seems good-humoured about it.
'Today is the end of Steam': Argentina and Turkey floored by new Steam price hikes as high as 2900%
By Joshua Wolens published
News Steam's new pricing policy for Latin America and the MENA region came in yesterday.
Modern Warfare 3's loathed 'Groot' skin is getting yanked and nerfed following widespread player backlash
By Joshua Wolens published
News "In a future update, we'll disable this item until said changes can be released to all players."
Baldur's Gate 3's hottest fix yet tackles two separate make-out scenes and promises to repair Astarion's visible disgust at kissing you
By Joshua Wolens published
News I hope patch 5 introduces sitting in a tree.
Fortnite players revolt as the game's 'Roblox-ification' with baffling age ratings stops them accessing paid cosmetics
By Joshua Wolens published
News E for exasperated.