
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

Old School RuneScape says no more Mr Nice Guy, it's time for permabans and confiscations if you're caught buying black market gold
By Joshua Wolens published
News But some players will believe it when they see it.

MindsEye's response was so mindblowingly negative its star thought 'I might never work in another game again'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Alex Hernandez and the MindsEye team had a rough go of the game's launch.

Witcher creator Andrzej Sapkowski gets gold Polish culture medal, accepts it with face like he's just had his Switch 2 pre-order cancelled
By Joshua Wolens published
News I love this man so much.

Palworld is going quiet as Pocketpair takes an iron to its 'quirks and jank,' with full release planned for 2026
By Joshua Wolens published
News Almost two years on, Palworld is nearly ready for primetime. For a given definition of 'nearly,' anyway.

Mad-lad fans have revived The Crew after Ubisoft killed it: 'No one will ever be able to take this away from you now'
By Joshua Wolens published
News The Crew Unlimited is out today.

Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford's chronic tweeting syndrome strikes again, says 'less than 1% of 1%' of players are filing tickets about performance so clearly the internet's overblowing it
By Joshua Wolens published
News Interested to see how this one's gonna play out.

Who needs Silent Hill? The 'anxiety horror' game I'm most looking forward to is this freakish, grotesque thing about who you let stay at your house in the apocalypse
By Joshua Wolens published
News Sorry to all the people who got sorted into bin bags overnight.

Rockstar is already calling GTA 6 'the largest game launch in history' 7 months out from release, counting a few hundred million chickens before they've hatched
By Joshua Wolens published
News Thanks for reading PC Gamer's most successful article of 2025.

Stalker remasters hit 1.3 as GSC back-ports quick-inventory slots from Call of Prypiat to all 3 games
By Joshua Wolens published
News Stick a can of spam on F4, you're golden.

What does OG Fallout's co-creator want to see in the series? An 'actual good faction, like 100% good'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Check out ol' goody four-shoes over here (he's mutated by radiation).

September becomes an even more ridiculous month for releases as Hades 2 announces it's dropping in 2 weeks
By Joshua Wolens published
News So finish up Silksong, is what I'm saying.

Some Silksong players are clinging stubbornly to its release version as the 'first major patch' kills a secret technique and makes bosses a smidge easier
By Joshua Wolens published
News You'll pry my Faydown Cloak from my cold, dead shoulders, Team Cherry.

CDPR returns to the fridge for one more Cyberpunk patch, somehow makes its autodrive less berserk while also making it ignore traffic lights
By Joshua Wolens published
News The traffic lights have been holding us back all this time.

Assassin's Creed Shadows adds a cat dressed like Ezio and its coolest weapon yet: A large stick
By Joshua Wolens published
News Or, okay, a bo staff.

Borderlands 4 review round-up: 'The best Borderlands game I've ever played—but with a small hitch'
By Joshua Wolens published
News A big step-up from Borderlands 3, so long as it's not choking your GPU.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 added a new secret happy(ish) ending for people who straight-up solo an entire enemy army
By Joshua Wolens published
News Just don't read about what happened in 1416.

In tribute to a player's departed baby son, Old School RuneScape players turn out in 'hundreds' to pay respects to his namesake: 'It was so overwhelming seeing so many people at Zeke's shop'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Even a Jagex staffer came to pay their respects.

Hideo Kojima relatably says job-hunting made him 'feel like I was a Showa-era detective trying to solve a murder,' and he almost became a no-name pharma guy but for some kind words from a HR person
By Joshua Wolens published
News "Everybody was hiding their true selves; we could only act like chameleons trying to change our colors to adapt to each of the companies we were applying for."

Steam mega-update ends our long national game-sorting nightmare, adds CPU temp measuring, and a gajillion other bullet points
By Joshua Wolens published
News This is a very big day for me.

Halls of Torment's DLC is the only expansion I care about this year, and it's now got a release date
By Joshua Wolens published
News Feelin' boggy.

Bayonetta director Hideki Kamiya throws down the gauntlet, says if Hideo Kojima doesn't make another PT, 'Maybe I'll give it a go'
By Joshua Wolens published
News But it wouldn't be horror. So there's one wrinkle right at the start.

Take-Two tries to hide GTA 6 websites behind its back after fans uncover them, achieving nothing but fuelling the fire
By Joshua Wolens published
News Catch me on WhatUp.

Silksong already has 2 multiplayer mods, and we're not even a week in yet
By Joshua Wolens published
News You don't have to run faster than Moorwing—you just have to outrun your friend.
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