
Justin Wagner
Justin first became enamored with PC gaming when World of Warcraft and Neverwinter Nights 2 rewired his brain as a wide-eyed kid. As time has passed, he's amassed a hefty backlog of retro shooters, CRPGs, and janky '90s esoterica. Whether he's extolling the virtues of Shenmue or troubleshooting some fiddly old MMO, it's hard to get his mind off games with more ambition than scruples. When he's not at his keyboard, he's probably birdwatching or daydreaming about a glorious comeback for real-time with pause combat. Any day now...
Latest articles by Justin Wagner

Sure, why not: The next videogame movie will adapt friendship-ending indie Chained Together
By Justin Wagner published
News The film is currently being developed by production and sales group Anton.

The sequel to one of my favorite 3D platformers always had a janky PC port, but a huge fanmade patch just dropped in hopes to fix it
By Justin Wagner published
News Modder Wemino has already released ambitious fanmade patches for F.E.A.R. and the original Alice, and now they're on to Madness Returns.

Ubisoft touches up AI art 'placeholder' that slipped into Anno 117, but fans are not happy it was there to begin with: 'Of all the video games, not Anno'
By Justin Wagner published
News The venerable city builder has long been praised for its gorgeous artwork, which seems to make this sting all the more.

The best artillery-themed party game is celebrating its 30th anniversary, and you can get all the series' best entries for less than five bucks
By Justin Wagner published
News Take a break from Quiplash and kill your friends with bombs. In Worms.

Wuxia MMO Where Winds Meet is full of AI chatbot NPCs, and people are doing all the standard obscene stuff to them: 'I made him think that my character was pregnant with his child'
By Justin Wagner published
News Can't we just go back to the Zork school of NPC dialog?

Escape from Tarkov fans are scrutinizing alleged sympathies for the Russian invasion of Ukraine within Battlestate Games: 'If I could refund it I would'
By Justin Wagner published
News Images are circulating which suggest a concerning relationship between Battlestate Games and a controversial group of Russian gun enthusiasts.

Shortly after Concord's resurrection by fans, it looks like Sony might be about to kill it again: 'Due to worrying legal action we’ve decided to pause invites for the time being'
By Justin Wagner published
News But as for the Concord fans, they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.

Escape From Tarkov shoots to the top of Downdetector, debuts on Steam to ‘Mixed’ reviews as players struggle to log in: 'Best extraction shooter that you CAN'T play'
By Justin Wagner published
News Tarkov's long-awaited launch on Steam is being hamstrung by error codes, authentication issues, and more.

It’s a big choice-driven RPG, so get ready for a holy book’s worth of patch notes: The latest Outer Worlds 2 patch packs over 350 fixes
By Justin Wagner published
News You’ve never seen this many “art improvements.”

One of our favorite 4X games is holding an extra-long free weekend starting today
By Justin Wagner published
News Age of Wonders 4 stands tall as a strategy game, whether it's your first or your fiftieth.
The Turnip Boy devs just announced a sudden left turn into horny territory: A dungeon crawler where you 'rizz up' monster girls
By Justin Wagner published
News Rizz Dungeon: Skeleton Key to My Heart should include D&D-style goons of all sorts.

The best store-brand Breath of the Wild-like on PC is free to keep this month, as long as you can stomach Ubisoft Connect
By Justin Wagner published
News Immortals Fenyx Rising didn't move mountains, but it was still pretty fun.

Bloodlines 2 just got a new roadmap with Christmas-themed goodies, as well things that probably should have been there from the start like an FOV slider and motion blur toggle
By Justin Wagner published
News The roadmap accompanies a host of bug fixes and "general improvements" to saving and stability.

A multiplayer wuxia RPG releasing this week has a whopping 10 million pre-registrations, and it might just fill that hole in your heart where a new MMO ought to be
By Justin Wagner published
News Where Winds Meet’s impending launch is turning quite a few heads.

This mad lad got Battlefield 6 to run on a 12-year-old AMD CPU, circumventing its stated anti-cheat requirements
By Justin Wagner published
News It even runs at a, ahem, stunning 40 FPS in 786p.

Before Titan Quest 2 gets a permanent price hike, you can grab the rare singleplayer-friendly Diablo-like on sale
By Justin Wagner published
News The price of admission for the mythical, solo-friendly ARPG is going up.

Microsoft Flight Simulator isn't just for nerdy dads anymore: Boeing will start using its tech to train actual pilots
By Justin Wagner published
News The Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer is "powered by" the storied aviation sim and Microsoft Azure.

The best playable game documentary on Steam is getting a Namco-centric DLC this week, including the worst version of Pac-Man
By Justin Wagner published
News Pac is back. Again!

Stalker dev GSC Game World DMCA'd a Stalker-inspired indie off Steam, and the devs are crying foul: 'This is an abuse of power against small independent developers by a large corporation'
By Justin Wagner published
News Misery, not to be confused with the Stalker mod, is currently unavailable for purchase on Steam.

To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub
By Justin Wagner published
news The Video Game FAQ Archive has come a long way.

Blue Prince developer announces 'a plea for help': one of the game's lead playtesters 'has only a few months to find a living kidney donor'
By Justin Wagner published
News Iggy needs a kidney.

Arc Raiders briefly overtakes Battlefield 6's concurrent player count on Steam as it proves to be one of the hottest PC games this fall
By Justin Wagner published
News Remember when it seemed that extraction shooters were, like, really niche?

NetEase racks up its third studio casualty in one week, kneecapping dev working on a Warhammer MMO: 'Devastated doesn't even begin to cover it'
By Justin Wagner published
News Jackalyptic Games has been slashed to ribbons, capping off a weeklong bloodbath at NetEase.

A new Arc Raiders update just fixed a bug where an otherwise underwhelming item could glitch you through walls, so I guess it's back to being underwhelming
By Justin Wagner published
News Deployable barricades had their moment. Back to the bottom tier.

Larian publishing director balks at Square Enix's push to replace QA workers with AI: 'The idea that QA people can be replaced at a large scale is stupid … They are a massively advantageous vibe check'
By Justin Wagner published
News AI's growing role in gamedev continues to polarize.
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