Latest articles by Joshua Wolens
26 years later, System Shock 2's music is a crucial part of its level design, and turning it off is a tragedy
Synth Life I mostly just want to make you listen to Med Sci 1.
I played communist Germany's only arcade cabinet and you can too, comrade
Marx at the arcade VEB Polytechnik Karl-Marx-Stadt is my dev to watch for 2026.
Nightdive puts out surprise 'definitive' update for 30-year-old I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream
News You think they'd at least patch in a mouth.
Steam is officially bigger than Canada with a 41-million concurrent user record
News War presumably inevitable.
Capcom execs were bewildered that people might want to play original Resident Evil when GOG approached them about it: 'We have all of those remakes. It’s already the superior experience'
News What you fail to understand, Mr GOG, is that new thing is shiny.
The all-powerful 3rd-person-camera lobby convinced Obsidian to stick a Bethesda-style view mode in The Outer Worlds 2
News Vile.
'Death Stranding, but Norman Reedus is a horse in 13th-century Mongolia' is the pitch for this demo with the most detailed steed mechanics I've ever seen
News Be right back taking a quick course on horse genetics.
The story for Paradox's original, canned Bloodlines 2 has gone the way of the dodo, and its fired narrative lead says no one's spoken to him about it, but the good news is he's working on 2 games at once right now
News Brian Mitsoda touched on the messy collapse of Hardsuit Labs' Bloodlines 2 in a recent blog.
Ubisoft surprise-revives its neglected Splinter Cell middle child on Steam, puts it on sale, then slaps a Uplay requirement on it so you don't get too excited
News Dammit Fisher, I'm pulling you out (of physical-only distribution).
RPG vet Josh Sawyer keeps things like Fallout and D&D grounded in history because 'Once things get too magical… it's impossible to bring it back down to Earth'
News Which is also why Deadfire is the best CRPG of at least the last decade, just saying.
The Deus Ex mod that's a better sequel than Invisible War just got a mondo-update, and playing it couldn't be easier
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
News And Croteam, maybe.
Borderlands 4 director says use dialogue skip mod at your peril—it might turbo-brick your missions
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
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'
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
News Probably fine.
Bethesda enlisted its intrepid fan-wiki editors 'to design a character for The Elder Scrolls 6'
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
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'
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
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'
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'
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
Classy It'll be really easy to mod Thomas the Tank Engine into this one.
