
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

Brace yourself for yassified Homer Simpson as leaks say an entire Springfield map is headed for Fortnite
By Joshua Wolens published
News Annoyed grunt (jacked).

Congratulations to Victoria 3 players on causing 860,000,000,000,000,000 deaths by famine in a single year, enough to depopulate Earth 107,000,000 times
By Joshua Wolens published
News On the plus side, over a thousand anarchist Prussias.

Morrowind mega-mod Tamriel Rebuilt is adding 'one of the holy grails' that players have wanted 'for more than 20 years' in its next mammoth expansion
By Joshua Wolens published
News Poison Song is "expected to be a matter of months away."

Here are the Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 unlock times for your region
By Joshua Wolens published
Time of Undeath One Bloodlines! Two Bloodlines! Mwa-ha-ha-ha!

Fallout is coming to a museum near you (if you are near Las Vegas)
By Joshua Wolens published
News Pretty far away from you if you're not near Las Vegas.

Arc Raiders seems set for a meteor-impact-sized launch as its weekend playtest becomes Steam's 89th most-popular game by concurrent players
By Joshua Wolens published
News Someone's gotta raid all those arcs.

The top 100 PC games
By Phil Savage published
Class of 2025 Welcome to the 2025 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games you can play.

The Sleeping Dogs movie has a finished script draft, per series torchbearer Simu Liu and his own sleepy dog
By Joshua Wolens published
News That's all you need.

26 years later, System Shock 2's music is a crucial part of its level design, and turning it off is a tragedy
By Joshua Wolens published
Synth Life I mostly just want to make you listen to Med Sci 1.

I played communist Germany's only arcade cabinet and you can too, comrade
By Joshua Wolens published
Marx at the arcade VEB Polytechnik Karl-Marx-Stadt is my dev to watch for 2026.

Nightdive puts out surprise 'definitive' update for 30-year-old I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream
By Joshua Wolens published
News You think they'd at least patch in a mouth.

Steam is officially bigger than Canada with a 41-million concurrent user record
By Joshua Wolens published
News War presumably inevitable.

Capcom execs were bewildered that people might want to play original Resident Evil when GOG approached them about it: 'We have all of those remakes. It’s already the superior experience'
By Joshua Wolens published
News What you fail to understand, Mr GOG, is that new thing is shiny.

The all-powerful 3rd-person-camera lobby convinced Obsidian to stick a Bethesda-style view mode in The Outer Worlds 2
By Joshua Wolens published
News Vile.

'Death Stranding, but Norman Reedus is a horse in 13th-century Mongolia' is the pitch for this demo with the most detailed steed mechanics I've ever seen
By Joshua Wolens published
News Be right back taking a quick course on horse genetics.

The story for Paradox's original, canned Bloodlines 2 has gone the way of the dodo, and its fired narrative lead says no one's spoken to him about it, but the good news is he's working on 2 games at once right now
By Joshua Wolens published
News Brian Mitsoda touched on the messy collapse of Hardsuit Labs' Bloodlines 2 in a recent blog.

Ubisoft surprise-revives its neglected Splinter Cell middle child on Steam, puts it on sale, then slaps a Uplay requirement on it so you don't get too excited
By Joshua Wolens published
News Dammit Fisher, I'm pulling you out (of physical-only distribution).

RPG vet Josh Sawyer keeps things like Fallout and D&D grounded in history because 'Once things get too magical… it's impossible to bring it back down to Earth'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Which is also why Deadfire is the best CRPG of at least the last decade, just saying.

The Deus Ex mod that's a better sequel than Invisible War just got a mondo-update, and playing it couldn't be easier
By Joshua Wolens published
News Someone should come up with a name for it, though.

2005 FPS Serious Sam 2 just got a big update for reasons known only to God
By Joshua Wolens published
News And Croteam, maybe.

Borderlands 4 director says use dialogue skip mod at your peril—it might turbo-brick your missions
By Joshua Wolens published
News Turns out that's load-bearing dialogue.

Battlefield 6 players hit server queues as it rockets to over 500k Steam concurrents just 25 minutes after launch
By Joshua Wolens published
Can hype bloom on a Battlefield?

'Cheated and manipulated' MindsEye devs eviscerate studio bosses who blamed botched launch on 'saboteurs' and say they'll see them in court: 'The games industry is not the Wild West anymore'
By Joshua Wolens published
News "Staff had suffered months of crunch, resulting in some horrific mental and even physical illnesses."
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