Joshua Wolens

Joshua Wolens

News Writer

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

A Disco Elysium writer once told Josh Sawyer that 'we can do better than this now,' and Sawyer agrees

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News "We just keep inspiring each other. It's not an animosity thing. It's just, do the best you can, [and] get inspired by other people."

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CD Projekt rebrand makes things simultaneously simpler and more confusing

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News Please, CD Projekt was my father, call me and my brother CD Projekt Red.

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Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer says the NCR and Caesar's Legion feel so real because their members disagree and challenge each other: 'You have to wrestle with the fact that it contains multitudes'

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News Shoutout to Canyon Runner.

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Resident Evil 2 fans end 'years of searching' for identity of Jill Valentine's photo boyfriend

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News Turns out he's a small Mexican chihuahua.

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A Steam Machine in front of a TV, with the Steam Controller resting against it and a pink neon sign in the background
Valve says Steam Machine won't have 'as long of a timeframe' as Steam Deck, and new models are 'just a matter of when it makes sense'

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News The Steam Machine is passé. I'm all about the Steam Machine 2.

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The RAM crisis comes for Apple: Mac and iPad prices jacked up by hundreds as company says 'We have never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly'

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News Think different (prices).

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Valve wasn't sure it was gonna have any Steam Machines to sell at the start of 2026: 'Things looked really dire'

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News Another thing to thank the RAM crisis for.

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Forget this GTA 6 stuff, Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 just got a hot new update

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News And Icewind Dale, about which I don't have strong feelings, so.

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The one thing Valve would change about the Steam Machine? 'Make it cheaper'

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Rockstar dropped 63 new GTA 6 screenshots, here's all of them

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News Each one cost 40 trillion dollars to produce.

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Character portrait close-up of Warhammer 40K Chaos Space Marine, Uralon the Cruel.
Fan revolt forces RPG studio to kill its new launcher just 19 hours after release

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News Which you could probably have seen coming.

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Valve greenlights SteamOS installs on normal PCs with AMD GPUs, so you can go make your own Steam Machine if you don't wanna fork over $1,049

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News Not all of us have Machine money.

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I played that $1,000 Steam game. I regret it

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News Imagine how bad the people who paid for it feel.

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Eidos Montreal founder says modern execs are driven more by spreadsheets than passion for games

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News Executive is short for Excel, uh, cutive.

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Persona 4 Revival's overhauled combat looks splashier and easier than ever, though I'm a little worried about those dungeons

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News Ready for Prime Time.

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I spent an entire day with a fan-mod of North Korea's homegrown operating system, and I'm sorry to say it's not a Windows killer yet

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Rising Star Not the year of RedStar on the desktop.

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Sony deletes mention of PC from annual strategy report in favour of a gushing about AI

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News Seems like a downgrade.

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MrBeast is co-writing 'the book event of the year' to 'get a whole generation psyched about reading again'

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News That's probably what will happen.

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A small band of Nightdive rebels united to make the System Shock remake after it 'ran out of money' midway through development

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News Look at you, hackers.

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Valve's latest SteamOS is out with 'initial support for upcoming Steam Machine hardware'

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News And the OLED charging LED works like it should now.

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Dutch non-profit set to take Valve to court for keeping game prices high

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News Someone else has a bone to pick with Valve's commission on Steam

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OpenAI says it busted a shadowy Chinese operation that used ChatGPT to whip up data centre hate (and that achieved basically nothing)

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News Hey, it's a living.

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Dragon's Dogma 2 hands out an infinite fast travel item after people wouldn't stop moaning about how laborious it was to go anywhere

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News That's the problem with this generation: iPhones and Eternal Ferrystones.

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Humble's offering a nearly buck-a-game deal on some of the best reactive narratives out there, including one of my personal favourite games of all time

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News Mon dieu.

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Old Persona 4 voice actor is 'deeply grieving' being recast in the remake: 'Everything in life is transient… Thank you for sharing the journey'

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News This was not our chance.

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