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

Steam killed its 'RPGMaker' user tag yesterday, and impacted devs are unexpectedly happy about it
By Joshua Wolens published
News It maybe obscured more than it revealed.

I just learnt I've been playing Metal Gear Solid 3 with a broken camera for 15 years
By Joshua Wolens published
News Fresh off uncovering true third-person in MGS2, MGSHDFix is righting another historical wrong.

'We are not a killing game,' says Subnautica 2 dev: 'Go play Sons of the Forest or something if you want to kill'
By Joshua Wolens published
News And yes, they are gonna fix all those angry fish at your door.

You can thank a bad Dungeons & Dragons DM for one of Shin Megami Tensei's coolest mechanics
By Joshua Wolens published
News Like all great inventions, it's all thanks to spite.

The best free games on Steam
By Joshua Wolens last updated
Updated! Nothing but the best free Steam games you can play right now.

GamesRadar has decamped to Kyoto to bring you some killer world premieres and trailers straight out of BitSummit Punch 2026
By Joshua Wolens published
news We just came in and found a letter in Japanese on their desks. We assume this is what it says.

IO Interactive has forgiven me for calling 007 a smug tool
By Joshua Wolens published
News I am absolved of my sins until at least my next article.

Germany cuts Steam Deck desktop devs a $1.5 million cheque, they declare an end to 'insecure spyware-riddled software imposed by the likes of Microsoft'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Linux. Maybe you've heard of it.

Ken Levine says Steam Machine shows we're hitting 'diminishing returns' with bleeding-edge graphics tech—just look at BioShock to see why art is more important
By Joshua Wolens published
News Keep your traced rays, I'm attaching barnacles to things.

Bioshock lead's fears about Judas were banished by Baldur's Gate 3 gibbing a main character on his second playthrough: 'He was gone'
By Harvey Randall published
News "I don't have a heartbreak about people not seeing player content."

True 3rd-person view has been hidden in a single Metal Gear Solid 2 variable for 15 years—now we're finally getting it
By Joshua Wolens published
News Which probably stings for that guy who modded it into the original game from scratch.

Popular PlayStation emulator clamps down on AI submissions: 'Leave behind something useful to humanity when you're gone, instead of peddling slop'
By Joshua Wolens published
News 'As for all the AI bros seething on our socials, we're simply blocking you.'

Today I learned that Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski produced a Tony Award-winning musical
By Joshua Wolens published
News CliffyB contains multitudes.

eBay shoots down 'neither credible nor attractive' $56 billion GameStop offer from CEO who says 'I'm not going away. I'm a pain in the ass'
By Joshua Wolens published
News You didn't win this auction.

You're not paranoid—KCD2's devs gave Henry photo mode voicelines just to stop you abusing it for stealth runs
By Joshua Wolens published
News The hungry lines are just hungry lines, though. And god bless them.

After fining Google more money than exists on Earth, Russia demands so little from EA it feels like a weird joke
By Joshua Wolens published
News Well one of these strategies has gotta work.

Elder Scrolls 6 is a ways off, but who needs it? The world's most specific game jam is back with 40 playable entries based off Oblivion's wonderful/awful persuade-o-wheel
By Joshua Wolens published
News The wheel has come full circle.

If you've ever had your shoes stolen in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, that was apparently PC Gamer's fault, sorry
By Jody Macgregor published
News Chris Livingston's fault specifically.

CCP changed its name rather than pick a fight with the Chinese Communist Party, which was probably wise
By Joshua Wolens published
News The EVE dev just has fewer armoured divisions, is all.

Videogame 'beta versions' are anything but, says veteran RPG dev—real games are 'sh***y, sh***y, sh***y, sh***y, slightly less sh***y, and it skyrockets' at the end
By Joshua Wolens published
News Better betas, but better.

Sony records a $766 million impairment loss against Bungie for the 2025 financial year, a 1-2 punch of Destiny 2 and Marathon failing to meet its expectations
By Joshua Wolens published
News Sony bought Bungie for $3.6 billion in 2022.

Indie shooter devs pull a reverse-Concord: No one played their game, but they 'make it free to play and keep the servers online indefinitely' anyway
By Joshua Wolens published
News Be free.

Warhorse's new creative director tells us why the secret sauce for Kingdom Come Deliverance is making things difficult for players: 'The usual answer is OK let's get rid of the friction—We don't work like that'
By Joshua Wolens published
Warchief Prokop Jirsa doesn't mind a few rough edges.
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