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

This month's Humble Choice is worth a look if you like RPGs, Zelda-likes, fast-paced shooters, or violating people's civil rights

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Oh, good, I like all those things.

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Valve's magical play-Windows-games-on-Linux tech is rebased, updated, and ready to play Resident Evil

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Just like me.

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GTA Trilogy remaster boss understands fan anger but says 'a lot of people were playing them and really enjoying them'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News The remasters were, you might say, busted.

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Inde Navarrette headshot on a yellow background - Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for IMDb
Obsession star Inde Navarrette built her gaming PC just like you and me: By watching Henry Cavill do it first

By Joshua Wolens Published

News I'm basically a Hollywood star.

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John Romero commiserates with ousted id devs as around half the studio reported axed, says he hopes someone is preserving its work like he did before he left

By Joshua Wolens Published

News "I know what it feels like to leave id while id goes on."

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance star says it didn't lead to work in other games: 'The industry at large has never really given a f***'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News This is no way to treat the heir of Rattay.

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A man in peasant clothing plays the Kingdom Come: Deliverance board game.
Top scientists uncover way to make Kingdom Come: Deliverance more complicated—turn it into a board game

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Roll for gambeson.

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Former Unreal Engine director retires after 15 years at Epic

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Nicholas Penwarden joins Sjoerd De Jong at the Dunrealin' retirement home.

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Dragon Age setting creator says AI push is a delusion of the executive class that's a 'virulent plague' on games

By Joshua Wolens Published

News "Honestly, what does it help with?"

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Battlefield 6 is an FPS where 'the guy obsessed with metas is having the least fun', and it's free-to-play for a week

By Joshua Wolens Published

News What about the guy who's obsessed with Metapod?

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Russian politician says GTA 6 carries 'the stench of Americanism,' but it's not so bad because the games are all about Americans killing each other

By Joshua Wolens Published

News "Any violence in GTA is violence against a potential enemy."

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 team reminds you it's got another Kingdom Come and a Middle-earth game on the way as it tops 6,000,000 sales

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Radzig Kobyla's sword vs Anduril. It's the fight of the 15th century.

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ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' in Stop Killing Games hearing: 'We consider it piracy, we have lawsuits'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Catch me on the corner selling server.jar out of a long trenchcoat.

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With a dumpster-truck full of cash, New Vegas director Josh Sawyer would probably make a 'spiritual successor' to a crunchy 1992 RPG

By Joshua Wolens Published

News So long as he liked the team he was making it with, anyway.

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

By Joshua Wolens Published

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

By Joshua Wolens Published

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'

By Joshua Wolens Published

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

By Joshua Wolens Published

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'

By Joshua Wolens Published

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'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Think different (prices).

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A Steam Machine with a red faceplate on a blue background, in the center of the frame
Valve wasn't sure it was gonna have any Steam Machines to sell at the start of 2026: 'Things looked really dire'

By Joshua Wolens Published

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

By Joshua Wolens Published

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

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A Steam machine sitting in front of a TV.
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

By Joshua Wolens Published

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

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Which you could probably have seen coming.

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