
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

Nintendo's found its Zelda and Link for the upcoming movie—and British soap opera Emmerdale finally gets the silver screen recognition it deserves
By Joshua Wolens published
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
By Joshua Wolens published
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
By Joshua Wolens published
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
By Joshua Wolens published
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
By Joshua Wolens published
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
By Joshua Wolens published
News Finally, I can sleep at night.

Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream review—Beautiful Scandinavian stealth that's too strict for its own good
By Joshua Wolens published
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
By Joshua Wolens published
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
By Joshua Wolens published
News Well, early '00s and late '90s.

Get a cracking deal this Amazon Prime Day on the best of the best from our techie tier list
By Jess Kinghorn published
Prime Day The cream of the crop is all the sweeter at a cut price.

Modder behind the 'Swiss army knife of PC gaming' deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: 'By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope'
By Joshua Wolens published
News "You no longer have the liberty of buying a game from wherever you want."

Sci-fi horror game Routine just came back to life for the 2nd time in 13 years: 'We are beginning to approach the finish line'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Also, Mick Gordon left.

I have a sick urge to install all 1,400 of my Steam games, so it's time to pick up a few TB of Prime Day Samsung SSD storage at its lowest-ever price
By Joshua Wolens published
Prime Day It's just as good as playing them.

This Prime Day deal means it's $94 for the mouse that changed my life (from a life where I had a mouse that sucked to one where my mouse is good)
By Joshua Wolens published
Prime Day It's super. And light.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was a depression-fest because its writer is 'from Poland and people in Poland are sad. They are born sad, they die sad, so I just wanted to make the whole world sad'
By Joshua Wolens published
News This is also why all English media is stultifyingly dull.

Chinese FMV game about getting 'revenge on gold diggers' plunges the country into online gender tumult
By Joshua Wolens published
News Pretty much like we do on the anglophone internet all the time.

Baldur's Gate 3 actor Samantha Béart says people don't realise how awful Karlach was before the events of the game: 'I think she was a piece of work in hell'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Béart says they imagine Karlach as someone who was forced to do awful things to survive in a kind of interplanar supermax prison.

Valve's reported profit-per-head from Steam commissions is out there, and at $3.5 million per employee it makes Apple and Facebook look like a lemonade stand
By Joshua Wolens published
News No wonder Gabe Newell can afford all those boats.

Open-source Morrowind project just got an update 3 years in the making that might have me saying bye to the vanilla game for good—oh, and you can load Skyrim in it now
By Joshua Wolens published
News Sure, why not.

Brace yourself: Hades 2 just got what 'will likely be our final patch' before full release
By Joshua Wolens published
News

As fans lose it over sanitised nudity and violence, Ready or Not devs promise they haven't changed their 'creative vision': 'We’ve only made changes where absolutely required'
By Joshua Wolens published
News It didn't help.

2023's true GOTY has had its name and assets jacked by 'some kind of crypto scam,' while bootlickers assure the dev it's actually great publicity
By Joshua Wolens published
News Stonks-9800 deserves better than this.

Deus Ex devs say they weren't trying to make a statement when they made one of the most political games of all time: 'What I think is the right future for humanity is irrelevant. It's all about what each player thinks'
By Joshua Wolens published
News A cabal of billionaires unleashing an artificial plague to further immiserate and exploit the underclass, but not in a political way.
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