Latest articles by Joshua Wolens
Oblivion Remastered lets you shatter whole buildings like Fabergé eggs with mod that resurrects spirit of Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
News Take that, society.
'We're not making GTA': Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is channeling the best part of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided—a dense hub instead of a huge open world
News Oh no, those are all my keywords.
It's a golden age for weird Eastern European games—you can tell because I'm in love with a horror puzzler about 2 old men trying to find evil in the woods
News One-Eyed Likho feels like a Russian cinematographer tried to make a horror film in 1909.
Judge sends ChatGPT-using lawyer to AI school with $5,500 fine after he's caught creating imaginary caselaw: 'Any lawyer unaware that using generative AI platforms to do legal research is playing with fire is living in a cloud'
News A prompt verdict.
Itch.io releases list of the adult content you can't put on its store anymore after anti-NSFW crackdown, including stuff that's not illegal but just icky
I'm not sure it's any processor's business to stop people buying this.
Astarion voice actor Neil Newbon sinks his fangs into AI and shreds it: 'AI sucks … It doesn't have the happy accident possibility that are those great moments in film'
News You don't get Baldur's Gate 3's acting with AI, I tell you that much.
9 million people have played Oblivion Remastered, and you've gotta think that number has Bethesda looking at its other old games and drooling
News That's a lotta closed Oblivion gates.
Gabe Newell says he founded Valve after Doom showed him Microsoft 'was missing the opportunity' offered by the internet: 'I was willing to sort of put my money where my mouth was'
News "And if I was wrong, I'd have to go back to Microsoft."
If you loved Baldur's Gate 3 then you probably shouldn't pick up this $10 bundle of incredibly crusty D&D games, but if you're cool you should
News I don't make the rules.
Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader dev Owlcat comes out swinging in support of Stop Killing Games: 'Every player deserves lasting access to what they’ve paid for'
News Which, in fairness, is pretty easy for an old-school CRPG dev to say.
Assassin's Creed Shadows has its summer roadmap and, with all due respect, how did it take this long to get a fast-forward time option?
News The greatest tool of the shinobi is the nap.
Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam
News It's not a great precedent, that's for sure.
A mere 8 years on, Assassin's Creed is bringing 'power and violence and sex and greed and vengeance' to Netflix as a TV show
News Put me in the animus to see what my ancestors thought about the Assassin's Creed TV show announcements from their lifetimes.
Nintendo's found its Zelda and Link for the upcoming movie—and British soap opera Emmerdale finally gets the silver screen recognition it deserves
News What will Marion and Chas Dingle make of this (I googled the characters in Emmerdale)?
Steam will let you reverse your last 7 days of CS2 (and soon other) trades if you accidentally swap your $10,000 AK-47 for some magic beans
News I hope you kept the receipt.
Steam's got a new rule that puts the kibosh on 'certain kinds of adult only content' that make Visa and Mastercard sad
News The new rule seemingly coincided with a large number of adult games being delisted from the platform.
Microsoft's 200 laid-off King devs are reportedly being replaced by AI they helped build, while its 'absolute 's***show' HR department looks away and whistles
News Morale is, predictably, "in the gutter."
'I think Todd in particular gravitates not towards the weird stuff': Skyrim's co-lead and Morrowind 'torchbearer' says Elder Scrolls 6 will probably be pretty normcore
News I feel a great disturbance, as if a million Morroboomers cried out in anguish and were suddenly silenced.
Oblivion Remastered's latest patch stealthily fixed the most lore-breaking door in videogames
News Finally, I can sleep at night.
Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream review—Beautiful Scandinavian stealth that's too strict for its own good
Sandi Snake And who's Erik, anyway?
Stalker Trilogy fixes the issue that made me melt my PC with infinite quicksaves and repairs the blurry textures that have blighted players for months
News Nicely done, GSC.
It's time to sort your life out and marathon the finest WW2 real-time tactics games of the early '00s—and for a mere $10, too
News Well, early '00s and late '90s.
