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
Amazon's Fallout TV director says he's not trying to please fans, legions get mad at him before realising he actually lost 'a year' of his life to Fallout 3 himself
By Joshua Wolens published
News Jonathan Nolan said trying to please any fans but themselves was a "fool's errand," not that it was a bad idea to please any fans at all.
Stellaris just announced a new major expansion that will put your dad in the Matrix
By Joshua Wolens published
News Aw geez, that's the last place I want them to put my dad.
Aspyr makes Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection statement after crashing to 'Overwhelmingly Negative' reviews, says it's working on it, doesn't apologise or explain why it needs 62.87GB of your disc space
By Joshua Wolens published
News The Battlefront Classic Collection is a bit maclunky.
Cyberpunk 2077 player stumbles across main menu easter egg hidden in plain sight, dev says 'I started to doubt you chooms will ever find it'
By Joshua Wolens published
News One more Night City secret uncovered.
RimWorld's new expansion is introducing 'IEDs that resurrect the dead,' fleshbeasts, and a 'beautiful golden cube' that you will love, or else
By Joshua Wolens published
News The usual expansion stuff.
'Probably one of the worst launches of all time': Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection players tear into Aspyr for bugs, crashes, and 3 64-player launch servers for nearly 10,000 users
By Joshua Wolens published
News The Classic Collection was meant to bring balance to Battlefront, not destroy it.
AI voice acting is changing modding, and it's killing one of the best parts of the scene: The amateur voice actor with a cheap headset mic
By Joshua Wolens published
Voice over Give me hissy, rattley, tinny audio or give me death.
Resident Evil achieves complete global saturation, sells enough copies to make it the 8th biggest country on Earth
By Joshua Wolens published
News And what a country it is.
Konami's latest Metal Gear Solid masterstroke is releasing a patch to fix MGS1's worst bug that doesn't fix it at all (Update: It works now)
By Joshua Wolens published
News Patch 1.5.0 claims to have fixed MGS 1's analogue support, but my testing says otherwise.
Final Fantasy 7 masterpiece mod turns Aerith Gainsborough into Aerith Gains Bro
By Joshua Wolens published
News Usually we write puns in these straplines, but how can I beat that?
One of the biggest Fallout modding projects in years is about to release, and if it goes wrong it could 'kill the Fallout modding scene'
By Joshua Wolens published
London's burning Fallout: London is reaching the end of the line. Mind the gap.
With The Saboteur now on Steam, it's time to bring back Pandemic's true masterpiece and properly do the EA-shuttered studio justice
By Joshua Wolens published
Back in the fight Almost every Pandemic classic is playable on PC, but not the best one of all.
Akira Toriyama, Dragon Ball creator and one of the most influential manga artists of all time, dies aged 68
By Joshua Wolens published
News Toriyama leaves a towering and impossibly influential body of work.
Starfield's new patch busts one of the best early exploits in the game and stops Sam Coe telling his daughter to tell jokes to a corpse
By Joshua Wolens published
News You win some, you lose some.
Free GOG keys for the objectively 3rd-best Fallout game are on Twitch Prime right now
By Joshua Wolens published
News By reading this article you enter into a contract by which you agree with the headline. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
EA CEO talks AI, says the usual stuff before the bong rip hits and he starts blabbing about a future where 3 billion people are creating EA's games with it
By Joshua Wolens published
News Andrew Wilson had some bots, EA AI O.
The kids' MMO that got plagued by messages reading 'The next world is my boss's a**hole' is now on European Steam
By Joshua Wolens published
News Look, I don't doubt Wizard101 has its merits, but there's really only one thing I know it for.
Persona 3 Reload is getting the DLC it needs, but not the one it deserves
By Joshua Wolens published
News That answers that.
Shogun’s excellent TV show made me go back and play the videogame adaptations, here's how they broke me as a man
By Joshua Wolens published
Sad-murai GO NORTH, GRAB KEY, HELP, HELP, HELP, QUIT.
Gorgeous Sony samurai sim Ghost of Tsushima is the latest game to break PlayStation containment for PC
By Joshua Wolens published
News Sony grins as it / posts "Tsushima on PC" / a piece is written.
Crusader Kings 3 finally gets its most hotly demanded feature in years: an authentic male pattern baldness system
By Joshua Wolens published
News Also like 200 other patch notes, but whatever.
In a suspicious act of generosity, EA quietly slashes the Steam price on 4 Command and Conquer games to nearly nothing
By Joshua Wolens published
news I'm not sure if this is permanent or not, so take advantage while you can.
Half-Life 2 patch tool Steam makes history for the 2nd time this year with a concurrent user count of nearly 35 million people
By Joshua Wolens published
News I think this thing is gonna take off.