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

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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News
Indie shooter devs pull a reverse-Concord: No one played their game, but they 'make it free to play and keep the servers online indefinitely' anyway

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Be free.

News
Prokop Jirsa holds a Bafta award while smiling.
Warhorse's new creative director tells us why the secret sauce for Kingdom Come Deliverance is making things difficult for players: 'The usual answer is OK let's get rid of the friction—We don't work like that'

By Joshua Wolens Published

Warchief Prokop Jirsa doesn't mind a few rough edges.

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Warchief
Elden Ring character wearing Morrowind rags.
Morrowind in Elden Ring mod makes mindblowing progress in video 'dedicated to that one guy that commented this project was not going to come out'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News That's dedication.

News
Medic from TF2 facepalms at a computer.
Mozilla, Stop Killing Games and more team up to tell the UK to stop making the internet worse

By Joshua Wolens Published

News "Even targeted age restrictions of specific features could mean that all users are required to complete intrusive age assurance processes".

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IO boss says surprise! Not only is 007 First Light imminent but that fantasy RPG it announced years ago is 'Very, very far' along too

By Joshua Wolens Published

News And then? Right back onto Hitman.

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

By Joshua Wolens Published

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'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Got it?

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

By Joshua Wolens Published

There are dozens of us.

Linux
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

By Joshua Wolens Published

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

By Joshua Wolens Published

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?

By Joshua Wolens Published

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

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Good, good, less good.

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

By Joshua Wolens Published

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

By Joshua Wolens Published

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

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

By Joshua Wolens Published

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

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Wherefore art thou, o god game?

News
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?

Action
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)

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Zach, did you hear that?

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

By Joshua Wolens Published

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

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

By Joshua Wolens Published

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

By Joshua Wolens Published

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

By Joshua Wolens Published

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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