Latest articles by Joshua Wolens
Ubisoft says AI is 'as big a revolution for our industry as the shift to 3D,' its magical AI NPCs are out of prototyping, and you bet it's got 'all our studios' working with the tech
News Oh. Good.
Ubisoft hasn't exploded or been bought by Tencent: Its finances were delayed because of maths nerds, AC Shadows is 'Overperforming', and it's got one upcoming game you don't know about, thank you
News All that sound and fury signified nothing, it turned out.
Just Cause dev Avalanche closes its Liverpool studio, its 3rd in just over a year
News With 31 people laid off.
Where Winds Meet has the most buckwild 'mounts' I've ever seen: Getting chased by jaguars, standing on a goose, or just cranking a normal run animation to turbo-speed
News Can't stop; jaguar will eat me.
I spent years on a journalism degree to tell you Homer's nipples have leaked in Fortnite
News It was all building to this.
Old School RuneScape just got its first new skill ever and players are psyched about it, apart from the guy the game accidentally branded 'Morbid Loner'
News It's a, uh, badge of honour.
You can pick up the System Shock remake, SS2 remaster, detective imsim Shadows of Doubt and more in a $20 bundle right now, and if you already own some of them you can trade them in for something else
News Shame about the name, though.
Here's how to watch Clair Obscur, KCD2 and others jostle for GOTY at the Golden Joystick Awards 2025
News Audentes fortuna iuvat, you know.
Mass Effect 3 redeemed to glory as modder puts its ME1-style elevator back in
News I wrote elevators in the headline for the benefit of my American brothers, but from this point on it's strictly lifts.
Russia just added Stalker dev GSC to its no-no list of 'undesirable organisations', sobs that Stalker 2 promoted 'Ukrainian narratives' and 'aggressive Russophobic content'
News The Prosecutor General's Office accuses GSC of "promoting Ukrainian narratives."
Ex-Square Enix suit says you can whine all you like, but 'Gen Z loves AI slop' and everyone and their grandma is already using it
News "The upcoming generation of gamers are Bane in Dark Knight Rises saying 'You merely adopted the slop, I was born in it.'"
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Stalker 2 has faction wars now: Enemies 'can expand control over new territories' in its 1.7 jumbo patch that also adds mega-hard mode and makes hiding in bushes meaningful
News Freedom vs Duty. No, literally.
2005 survival horror shooter ups and vanishes from Steam suspiciously soon after entering Nightdive's orbit
News Cold Fear stone-cold vanished.
Dispatch is set to hit its fantasy 'Bull case' 3-year sales target in just 3 months, and players have gone gaga for its episodic release structure
News Turns out old-fashioned TV was onto a good thing.
Before The Witcher 3 launched, CD Projekt was terrified that Batman: Arkham Knight would flatten it with its Batmobile: 'They're just gonna roll over us'
News "I still remember how bombed we were."
The Witcher 3 didn't originally make you choose between romancing Yennefer or Triss: 'This decision was made pretty late'
News The first game's sex cards were "childish," Badowski says.
CD Projekt Red was considered the 'ugly child' of CD Projekt as a whole before the first Witcher became a hit: 'They will never earn any money here'
News No longer a Botchling.
You haven't truly experienced PC gaming until you've done these 8 things
Relatable If you know, you know.
CD Projekt 'hacked time and space' to cast Charles Dance in The Witcher 3, because they needed an announcement before the countdown on their website reached zero
News Dancing on the ceiling.
Obsidian is right: I want less romance in my RPGs, actually
Love Less Let's set some realistic goals here: jokes banned by 1492 DR. Sex banned by 1498 DR. A Flaming Fist in every household by 1506 DR.
CD Projekt was worried people wouldn't really 'get' dark fantasy as a concept, and then Game of Thrones became the biggest franchise on Earth
News Paint it morally grey.
CD Projekt's co-CEO says The Witcher 2's momentous midgame choice was an 'experiment' and now regards it as a 'waste of resources'
News The developer "brought totally something new" for The Witcher 3.
