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

Ubisoft tells Black Flag microtransaction critics that they control the DLC they buy
By Joshua Wolens Published
News I'm sure they'll be glad to hear it.

'Valve isn't interested in a nuanced conversation' says indie dev suffering from Steam censorship
By Joshua Wolens Published
News "Valve loves it when Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldur's Gate 3 throw customizable genitals at you in the first five minutes, but of course I can't."

This month's Humble Choice is worth a look if you like RPGs, Zelda-likes, fast-paced shooters, or violating people's civil rights
By Joshua Wolens Published
News Oh, good, I like all those things.

Valve's magical play-Windows-games-on-Linux tech is rebased, updated, and ready to play Resident Evil
By Joshua Wolens Published
News Just like me.

GTA Trilogy remaster boss understands fan anger but says 'a lot of people were playing them and really enjoying them'
By Joshua Wolens Published
News The remasters were, you might say, busted.

Obsession star Inde Navarrette built her gaming PC just like you and me: By watching Henry Cavill do it first
By Joshua Wolens Published
News I'm basically a Hollywood star.

John Romero commiserates with ousted id devs as around half the studio reported axed, says he hopes someone is preserving its work like he did before he left
By Joshua Wolens Published
News "I know what it feels like to leave id while id goes on."

Kingdom Come: Deliverance star says it didn't lead to work in other games: 'The industry at large has never really given a f***'
By Joshua Wolens Published
News This is no way to treat the heir of Rattay.

Top scientists uncover way to make Kingdom Come: Deliverance more complicated—turn it into a board game
By Joshua Wolens Published
News Roll for gambeson.

Former Unreal Engine director retires after 15 years at Epic
By Joshua Wolens Published
News Nicholas Penwarden joins Sjoerd De Jong at the Dunrealin' retirement home.

Dragon Age setting creator says AI push is a delusion of the executive class that's a 'virulent plague' on games
By Joshua Wolens Published
News "Honestly, what does it help with?"

Battlefield 6 is an FPS where 'the guy obsessed with metas is having the least fun', and it's free-to-play for a week
By Joshua Wolens Published
News What about the guy who's obsessed with Metapod?

Russian politician says GTA 6 carries 'the stench of Americanism,' but it's not so bad because the games are all about Americans killing each other
By Joshua Wolens Published
News "Any violence in GTA is violence against a potential enemy."

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 team reminds you it's got another Kingdom Come and a Middle-earth game on the way as it tops 6,000,000 sales
By Joshua Wolens Published
News Radzig Kobyla's sword vs Anduril. It's the fight of the 15th century.

ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' in Stop Killing Games hearing: 'We consider it piracy, we have lawsuits'
By Joshua Wolens Published
News Catch me on the corner selling server.jar out of a long trenchcoat.

With a dumpster-truck full of cash, New Vegas director Josh Sawyer would probably make a 'spiritual successor' to a crunchy 1992 RPG
By Joshua Wolens Published
News So long as he liked the team he was making it with, anyway.

A Disco Elysium writer once told Josh Sawyer that 'we can do better than this now,' and Sawyer agrees
By Joshua Wolens Published
News "We just keep inspiring each other. It's not an animosity thing. It's just, do the best you can, [and] get inspired by other people."

CD Projekt rebrand makes things simultaneously simpler and more confusing
By Joshua Wolens Published
News Please, CD Projekt was my father, call me and my brother CD Projekt Red.

Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer says the NCR and Caesar's Legion feel so real because their members disagree and challenge each other: 'You have to wrestle with the fact that it contains multitudes'
By Joshua Wolens Published
News Shoutout to Canyon Runner.

Resident Evil 2 fans end 'years of searching' for identity of Jill Valentine's photo boyfriend
By Joshua Wolens Published
News Turns out he's a small Mexican chihuahua.

Valve says Steam Machine won't have 'as long of a timeframe' as Steam Deck, and new models are 'just a matter of when it makes sense'
By Joshua Wolens Published
News The Steam Machine is passé. I'm all about the Steam Machine 2.

The RAM crisis comes for Apple: Mac and iPad prices jacked up by hundreds as company says 'We have never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly'
By Joshua Wolens Published
News Think different (prices).

Valve wasn't sure it was gonna have any Steam Machines to sell at the start of 2026: 'Things looked really dire'
By Joshua Wolens Published
News Another thing to thank the RAM crisis for.
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