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
How Fish Is Made is the most disgusting horror game I've ever played, and it perfectly captures 2024
By Joshua Wolens published
Fish Tale Put your fish body on the gears.
20 years later, Konami just finally revealed who played Eva in MGS3 and how she acted making out with Naked Snake
By Joshua Wolens published
News What a thrill.
The ex-GTA lead whose blog got the kibosh from Rockstar chats San Andreas' worst bug and why 'anything that isn't visible to players tends to have swearing in it'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Oh, for a world where Obbe Vermeij could say whatever he wants.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard's first mods fulfil the creators' true intention of letting you play as Nigel Thornberry, but spit on all that is good and decent by making everything less magenta
By Joshua Wolens published
News How could you?
Elon Musk says he's one of the world's 'top 20' Diablo 4 players, still reckons he was a Quake all-time great even after its actual best player said he 'wasn't very good'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Musk is sitting pretty with the #19 clear time in the Pit.
Square Enix honcho Yoshi-P pledges more simultaneous releases as the company realises people don't like waiting years for its games
By Joshua Wolens published
News I could have told them that.
Dragon Age has a secret 'uber-plot' that BioWare still seems to be following, and it all builds up 'the final thing you could do in this world that would break it'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Rocks fall, everyone dies.
Ubisoft boss says it knows players think it has an 'inconsistency in quality,' so it delayed Assassin's Creed Shadows to flip that script
By Joshua Wolens published
News And everyone's still upset about Unity, myself included.
China: Mao's Legacy is like an absurdly specific Paradox game on a tight budget, and also one of the best sims I've ever played
By Joshua Wolens published
CPC Gamer How did Yukong move the mountains? Abusing save slots.
Ex-BioWare dev explains why everyone in Mass Effect and Dragon Age does that one 'BioWare turn' animation
By Joshua Wolens published
News I should go.
Horizon Zero Dawn's questionable remaster launches to Mixed reviews as players lament a new mandatory PSN sign-in that wasn't in the original, visual glitches, and audio bugs
By Joshua Wolens published
News Maybe wait for a patch.
Congratulations to the perhaps 7 people who were waiting for Cyberpunk 2077 to hit their MacBooks
By Joshua Wolens published
News Praise be to Tim.
I tracked down the guy who gave a negative review to Battlezone 98 Redux after playing for over 8,000 hours, and came away convinced he was right
By Joshua Wolens published
In the zone Scott Smith is a kind of living Battlezone encyclopaedia. Obviously, I had to speak to him.
The PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted returns to reveal the 25 most-anticipated PC games this December
By Joshua Wolens published
News As judged by our mysterious Council of experts.
Russia has fined Google $2,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or more money than actually exists on Earth, all because it's upset about some YouTube channels
By Joshua Wolens published
News Putin probably wants somewhere to upload his Twitch streams.
The Red Dead Redemption PC port isn't a GTA Trilogy-style disaster, it's now the best way to play the game
By Joshua Wolens published
Darn tooting It is still $50, though.
The Day Before studio is up to its old tricks, asking people to design maps for free in a contest whose lucky winner will get their work in a game, a free copy, and no money whatsoever
By Joshua Wolens published
News What an offer.
No Man's Sky dev pulls out all the stops to fix a player's buggy save with 611 hours of playtime at risk: 'I promise to hawk that bug and fix it'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Hello Games simply can't stop fixing No Man's Sky.
As US politics goes totally off the rails, Kamala Harris says to hell with it, let's start a Fortnite map
By Joshua Wolens published
News 2024 keeps giving.
The most promising Disco Elysium successor studio says workers must unite to topple Valve's 'digital fiefdom' of Steam
By Joshua Wolens published
News So comrades, come rally.
Obsidian says choices both big and small will matter in Avowed, and 'the choices you get and the outcomes in front of you are going to depend on what you're able to find'
By Joshua Wolens published
News In other words, keep a health potion in reserve.
Silent Hill 2's new patch fixes its last patch in possible meta commentary on recursive horror
By Joshua Wolens published
News Patch 1.05 fixes the issues caused by patch 1.04, in a real lady-who-swallowed-a-fly kind of situation.
Factorio has Silicon Valley tycoons like Elon Musk under its spell, and one $7 billion CEO is letting employees expense the game
By Joshua Wolens published
News Factorio teaches important life skills. Like leaving the planet.
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