
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: Hades 2 just got what 'will likely be our final patch' before full release
By Joshua Wolens published
News

As fans lose it over sanitised nudity and violence, Ready or Not devs promise they haven't changed their 'creative vision': 'We’ve only made changes where absolutely required'
By Joshua Wolens published
News It didn't help.

2023's true GOTY has had its name and assets jacked by 'some kind of crypto scam,' while bootlickers assure the dev it's actually great publicity
By Joshua Wolens published
News Stonks-9800 deserves better than this.

Deus Ex devs say they weren't trying to make a statement when they made one of the most political games of all time: 'What I think is the right future for humanity is irrelevant. It's all about what each player thinks'
By Joshua Wolens published
News A cabal of billionaires unleashing an artificial plague to further immiserate and exploit the underclass, but not in a political way.

Human spirit triumphs as the Croc devs announce they want to remaster Buck Bumble and the greatest main menu theme song of all time
By Joshua Wolens published
News Biggity Buck, you see. Furthermore, boo to the boo.

Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam
By Joshua Wolens published
News Which, I have to be honest, you could see coming a mile away.

Nexus Mods will soon require age verification for UK and EU users looking for its treasure trove of adult mods
By Joshua Wolens published
News But it won't say what that looks like yet.

Good guy GSC wordlessly deletes ads in Stalker remaster menus with itsy-bitsy new patch
By Joshua Wolens published
News Get out of here, Stalker ads.

The people who brought you the $165 Disco Elysium trash bag now bring you an $800 The Alters tracksuit
By Joshua Wolens published
News For the next time you get stranded off-world.

'Oblivion Remastered with guns' becomes reality as modder jury-rigs a literal Glock into the game and shoots up an Oblivion Tower with it
By Joshua Wolens published
News This Bosmer got that thang on him.

Ubisoft can't button its yap about the not-so-secret Black Flag remake—now Edward Kenway's voice actor is telling AC4 fans 'You might have to beat it again'
By Joshua Wolens published
News To be fair, he's incredibly charming when he does it.

Despite always preferring turn-based combat in RPGs, Pillars of Eternity designer Josh Sawyer thinks a lack of experience and opportunity meant the studio couldn't pull off a similar swing to Larian taking Baldur's Gate turn-based
By Ted Litchfield published
"I guess we did South Park, but other than that, we hadn't done turn-based ever, really."

New Vegas lead Josh Sawyer thinks turn-based combat fell off in the 2000s due to a lack of 'tactical variation': Even Fallout 1 would 'get to the point where you're always doing nut shots and eye shots'
By Ted Litchfield published
news Real time with pause won the 2000s, but turn-based won the war.

EA's CEO pulled in $5 million more this year than last, while his employees took home the least money they've made since 2022
By Joshua Wolens published
News Andrew Wilson was compensated to the tune of 260 times what the median EA employee took home in FY2025.

I screwed up Karlach's ending in Baldur's Gate 3: I thought I'd picked her best outcome but her actor says 'not very much' of her is actually left
By Joshua Wolens published
News Honestly it was impossible for me to know it was a bad idea.

Deus Ex lead Warren Spector pops up to remind everyone he didn't make the game alone in a cave, wish you a happy 25th anniversary, and get me wondering if something Deus Ex-related is happening behind the scenes
By Joshua Wolens published
News I said 'lead,' it's fine.

Outer Worlds 2 writes an enormous cheque it will soon have to cash: It's not just New Vegas-inspired, it's Deus Ex-flavoured too
By Joshua Wolens published
News He might as well have signed an affidavit saying 'Josh I promise you will fall in love with this videogame.'

We've outgrown the need for BioShock, but you can get the whole trilogy plus Mafia 1, 2, and 3 for a mere $18 right now
By Joshua Wolens published
News This thing of ours: now just under $20.

Stalker 2's 1.5 mega-patch just dropped and GSC says A-Life is back, baby
By Joshua Wolens published
News Get A-Life.

Wanna make mods for Stalker 2? That'll be 700 GB of hard drive space, please
By Joshua Wolens published
News Honestly? I'm more impressed than anything.

Karlach's actor knows about the 3,138 'filthy' Baldur's Gate 3 stories you've written on fanfic sites and still sends all their love to fans for changing their life: 'I don't read it, but I am aware'
By Joshua Wolens published
News The fandom has Tiefling fever.
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