
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

The Deus Ex mod that's a better sequel than Invisible War just got a mondo-update, and playing it couldn't be easier
By Joshua Wolens published
News Someone should come up with a name for it, though.

2005 FPS Serious Sam 2 just got a big update for reasons known only to God
By Joshua Wolens published
News And Croteam, maybe.

Borderlands 4 director says use dialogue skip mod at your peril—it might turbo-brick your missions
By Joshua Wolens published
News Turns out that's load-bearing dialogue.

Battlefield 6 players hit server queues as it rockets to over 500k Steam concurrents just 25 minutes after launch
By Joshua Wolens published
Can hype bloom on a Battlefield?

'Cheated and manipulated' MindsEye devs eviscerate studio bosses who blamed botched launch on 'saboteurs' and say they'll see them in court: 'The games industry is not the Wild West anymore'
By Joshua Wolens published
News "Staff had suffered months of crunch, resulting in some horrific mental and even physical illnesses."

EA exec pinky-promises there's no GenAI in Battlefield 6, but does say it's 'Very seducing' like someone being lured to an early grave in a Hellraiser film
By Joshua Wolens published
News Probably fine.

Bethesda enlisted its intrepid fan-wiki editors 'to design a character for The Elder Scrolls 6'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Hopefully it's just a guy telling you to read Lady Nerevar's 'How To Become a Lore Buff' page.

UK gov fobs off a 10,000-strong request to stop payment processors nuking NSFW Steam games, says it's a matter for the free market, baby
By Joshua Wolens published
News Well, I don't know about you, but it's certainly the first time the British state has ever let me down.

Still in early access, Hyper Light Breaker's ending development and laying off staff: 'This was not our ideal path, but rather the only one available given the circumstances'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Despite several updates, the game never quite won over players.

I cut out my tongue to unlock a door in Eclipsium, then things started getting weird
By Joshua Wolens published
News Brilliant. I have absolutely no idea what's going on.

Larian lead calls out Elon Musk's harebrained scheme for a 'great AI-generated game', says 'We don't need another cash grab, we need sustainability'
By Joshua Wolens published
News "To turn games into digital, emotionless content is to abandon all resonance".

It's literally impossible to pick the 'real' murderer in Pentiment because Obsidian never considered having one: 'You're not a detective, you're a f***ing artist'
By Joshua Wolens published
News But it was obviously Ferenc.

Enginefall asks 'What if Snowpiercer was Rust and DayZ' in a game with great vision and so-so execution
By Joshua Wolens published
Classy It'll be really easy to mod Thomas the Tank Engine into this one.

Thank God: The new Hell Let Loose will only have 'historically authentic' frogs
By Joshua Wolens published
News Nothing kills my immersion like a modern frog.

Peter Molyneux says 'We never took a penny of money from people' with his cursed cube game, contradicting Peter Molyneux who said it had made 'a few tens of thousands' in 2013
By Joshua Wolens published
News Okay, Peter. Sure thing, Peter.

This 2025 shooter made in a decades-old Doom engine is gorgeous, fun, and tough as nails
By Joshua Wolens published
News Check out Mala Petaka's demo if you, too, can't mentally separate yourself from the early '90s.

You should read these 54 World of Darkness books for $25 to catch up on the lore ahead of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2
By Joshua Wolens published
News I don't make the rules.

Skipping all Baby Steps' cutscenes unlocks a secret, 28-minute punishment cutscene
By Joshua Wolens published
News Eat your heart out, Hideo Kojima.

Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title'
By Joshua Wolens published
News "I just haven't got the life energy left to do this again."

Amazon's giving away one great Fallout game and one bad one this October
By Joshua Wolens published
News Just in time for Fallout season 2.

The new Swery/Suda collab's greatest sin is trying too hard
By Joshua Wolens published
News Take it down a notch.

Hero 100% beats Silksong using a saxophone as a gamepad, says it's not even the hardest game he's sax'd
By Joshua Wolens published
News Doot.

Amazon breaks glass marked 'AI-powered Snoop Dogg game where he's a judge' to get you to pay attention to its wilting Luna streaming service
By Joshua Wolens published
News Which, hey, worked on me.
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