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

Disgusting! Depraved monster adds effective quest markers to Morrowind, shows no remorse

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News Is nothing sacred?

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance has its own $180 perfume, and it's crucial you remember 'These are not distant notes, but fragments of a world you already know'

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News Got it?

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Linux century marches on as Discord brings updater parity with Windows and easy installs for more distros

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There are dozens of us.

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What colour car would James Bond never drive? IO had to have multiple meetings just to figure it out for 007 First Light while huge plot decisions went down easy

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News Colour me shocked.

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Blood pressure too low? Try our quiz about the most freakishly out-of-touch things tech CEOs have ever said

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That's rich The good news is: they all make more money than we'll see in a lifetime.

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That's rich
Hear me out: What if James Bond just shouldn't be in videogames?

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More Like Lames Bond Double-oh-no, not you.

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More Like Lames Bond
Obsidian returns to The Outer Worlds after 3 years to add a whole new weapon type, fix bugs, and delist its OG version

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News Good, good, less good.

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After 3 hours with 007 First Light, IO's weaknesses are on display in a way they haven't been since Hitman: Absolution

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Jimmy Bond Jr James Bond: Spy, lover, connoisseur, obsessive hand-sanitizer collector.

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Jimmy Bond Jr
Valve rolls out the red carpet for its new Steam controller with battery warnings, gamepad quick-chat and—bonus!—remote download controls

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News Finally, even less reason to get up off the sofa.

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I played the Lord of the Rings RPG where Frodo can straight-up die and the game just keeps on going

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Fro-done Which would have made for a different book, I think.

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Fro-done
Peter Molyneux's right about one thing: It's sad how no one seems to care about god games anymore

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News Wherefore art thou, o god game?

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Last year's best climbing game was also a horror game, and it gets a big anniversary update today

By Joshua Wolens Published

Going up?

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This is not a drill: All-timer weirdo game Deadly Premonition now playable on Linux as of Valve's most recent Proton beta, plus 17 others and your EA library (until EA breaks it again)

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News Zach, did you hear that?

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Kingdom Come 2 director welcomes LGBT award nomination, then spends around 175 words explaining that it doesn't make him 'woke'

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News O dull old world, that has such people in it.

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After 7 years, Metro 2039 brings us a voiced protagonist, old friends turned Nazis, and 'a much darker tone'

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News The latest game in the Metro series will directly channel its Ukrainian devs' experiences in Russia's invasion.

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Here's when Pragmata releases in your timezone

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Moon Unit Some old-school shooting fun in 2026.

Moon Unit
Halo composer Marty O'Donnell welcomes Trump endorsement in Nevada Congress race, despite previous statements that Trump is an 'idiot' he loathes

By Joshua Wolens Published

News A lot can change in politics.

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Roblox to introduce new kid accounts in its quest to appear less of a child safety nightmare

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News It wants to "become the world’s healthiest platform for users of all ages."

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15 more Disney games delisted from Steam, including the original Star Wars: Dark Forces and 1997's Outlaws

By Joshua Wolens Published

News That's 29 games delisted following another bout in January.

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Stalker 2 just got a free pre-DLC to gird you for its first actual DLC

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News Sealed Truth is now unsealed.

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Epic is reportedly cooking up a Disney extraction shooter, and suggestions staff are lukewarm on it are 'not reflective of the ambitions of the Disney collaboration'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News I predict a playerbase so cutthroat it makes Escape From Tarkov look like a teambuilding retreat.

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Bethesda's ex-marketing VP says Skyrim was its first game to make other studios scared of it: 'You have to be concerned about us if you think you're going to win game of the year'

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News The fear of Todd, they call it.

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Crimson Desert does what other games do backwards and that's why it's a beautiful freak of nature, says imsim vet at Arkane Lyon

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In most games, for example, your character starts out already knowing what a goat is.

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Creature battling in No Man's Sky Xeno Arena.
No Man's Sky's latest update is a whole new Pokémon-style creature-collection and battle system that's 'an entire multiplayer game all of its own'

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News No Man's Sky's journey to becoming every game proceeds apace.

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Kliff flying in the air with a hooded cape.
Crimson Desert players are visiting space and finding that Pearl Abyss modelled a really weird amount of it

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News One small step for Kliff, repeated several thousand times.

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