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
![Cyberpunk 2077's V thinking smart](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/jBeVqELw8d2CjyzM9jNYrL-320-80.jpg)
Cyberpunk 2077 player stumbles across main menu easter egg hidden in plain sight, dev says 'I started to doubt you chooms will ever find it'
By Joshua Wolens published
News One more Night City secret uncovered.
![A woman holds a gold cube while a fleshbeast rides on her back in keyart for RimWorld -- Anomaly.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/YXwViMa3kYw3VHQoEXmFHc-320-80.jpg)
RimWorld's new expansion is introducing 'IEDs that resurrect the dead,' fleshbeasts, and a 'beautiful golden cube' that you will love, or else
By Joshua Wolens published
News The usual expansion stuff.
![Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection screen - a group of stormtroopers standing in front of TIE Fighters](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/QM7PSu5NpNtAPiNLMw7ukL-320-80.jpg)
'Probably one of the worst launches of all time': Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection players tear into Aspyr for bugs, crashes, and 3 64-player launch servers for nearly 10,000 users
By Joshua Wolens published
News The Classic Collection was meant to bring balance to Battlefront, not destroy it.
![Dagoth Ur, the final boss of Morrowind, stands with hands on hips.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zD6EFnMYcLFhRo6EA3GoBP-320-80.jpg)
AI voice acting is changing modding, and it's killing one of the best parts of the scene: The amateur voice actor with a cheap headset mic
By Joshua Wolens published
Voice over Give me hissy, rattley, tinny audio or give me death.
![Leon from Resident Evil 4 doing the smoulder among a run-down village.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/CNPWchWpstNnuef5GkJUng-320-80.png)
Resident Evil achieves complete global saturation, sells enough copies to make it the 8th biggest country on Earth
By Joshua Wolens published
News And what a country it is.
![Yoji Shinkawa artwork of Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid 1.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qqEbiwrY5LBtoccj2aiYnB-320-80.png)
Konami's latest Metal Gear Solid masterstroke is releasing a patch to fix MGS1's worst bug that doesn't fix it at all (Update: It works now)
By Joshua Wolens published
News Patch 1.5.0 claims to have fixed MGS 1's analogue support, but my testing says otherwise.
![A positively swole Aerith harangues Cloud in a screenshot of a modded version of Final Fantasy 7 Remake.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/MrtgfLNVpohuRxi4J6rrZa-320-80.jpg)
Final Fantasy 7 masterpiece mod turns Aerith Gainsborough into Aerith Gains Bro
By Joshua Wolens published
News Usually we write puns in these straplines, but how can I beat that?
![A character waves a British flag in the Wasteland in Fallout: London.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/FWqb4sKXDmxoexvicxtAWj-320-80.png)
One of the biggest Fallout modding projects in years is about to release, and if it goes wrong it could 'kill the Fallout modding scene'
By Joshua Wolens published
London's burning Fallout: London is reaching the end of the line. Mind the gap.
![Cover art for Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, showing the three playable characters.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/fyb2TPf294cZgeaptQgGyj-320-80.jpg)
With The Saboteur now on Steam, it's time to bring back Pandemic's true masterpiece and properly do the EA-shuttered studio justice
By Joshua Wolens published
Back in the fight Almost every Pandemic classic is playable on PC, but not the best one of all.
![TOPSHOT - This black and white photo taken in May 1982 shows Japanese manga artist Akira Toriyama, whose death was announced on March 8, 2024. The creator of Japan's hugely popular and influential "Dragon Ball" comics and anime cartoons, Akira Toriyama, has died aged 68, his production team said on March 8, 2024](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Uo4kxSvoTqaaMyokBeZhQC-320-80.jpg)
Akira Toriyama, Dragon Ball creator and one of the most influential manga artists of all time, dies aged 68
By Joshua Wolens published
News Toriyama leaves a towering and impossibly influential body of work.
![Close-up of man grinning with a cowboy hat](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/6WAg9ERcmmqTReqscjadyP-320-80.jpg)
Starfield's new patch busts one of the best early exploits in the game and stops Sam Coe telling his daughter to tell jokes to a corpse
By Joshua Wolens published
News You win some, you lose some.
![An Enclave soldier from Fallout 2.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9TtnAMruurtR22wGEZV37U-320-80.jpg)
Free GOG keys for the objectively 3rd-best Fallout game are on Twitch Prime right now
By Joshua Wolens published
News By reading this article you enter into a contract by which you agree with the headline. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
![Andrew Wilson, chief executive officer of Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), speaks during the company's EA Play event ahead of the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Saturday, June 9, 2018. EA announced that it is introducing a higher-end version of its subscription game-playing service that will include new titles such as Battlefield V and the Madden NFL 19 football game. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/o9tP4wjvnzfaShCeWxMMZH-320-80.jpg)
EA CEO talks AI, says the usual stuff before the bong rip hits and he starts blabbing about a future where 3 billion people are creating EA's games with it
By Joshua Wolens published
News Andrew Wilson had some bots, EA AI O.
![In-game message in Wizard101 reading "BRADLEY COME DOWN TO THE OFFICE THIS INSTANT -the ceo"](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zrFQ6Zme7scAWjGb7eEKCa-320-80.jpg)
The kids' MMO that got plagued by messages reading 'The next world is my boss's a**hole' is now on European Steam
By Joshua Wolens published
News Look, I don't doubt Wizard101 has its merits, but there's really only one thing I know it for.
![A lineup of characters about to perform an all-out attack in Persona 3 Reload.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/SaWDWPoEA5cfeV7J4MoteF-320-80.png)
Persona 3 Reload is getting the DLC it needs, but not the one it deserves
By Joshua Wolens published
News That answers that.
![Shogun](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/LF5Hy3JYD6UdY8N2As6Cfd-320-80.jpg)
Shogun’s excellent TV show made me go back and play the videogame adaptations, here's how they broke me as a man
By Joshua Wolens published
Sad-murai GO NORTH, GRAB KEY, HELP, HELP, HELP, QUIT.
![A silhouetted figure plays a flute against a setting sun backdrop.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mgMSRHAugDBYWWAis8aLz-320-80.jpg)
Gorgeous Sony samurai sim Ghost of Tsushima is the latest game to break PlayStation containment for PC
By Joshua Wolens published
News Sony grins as it / posts "Tsushima on PC" / a piece is written.
![A face-on and side-profile shot of a moustachioed bald man in Crusader Kings 3.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/cM5wFXjX8JDkagEmEdcPmh-320-80.jpg)
Crusader Kings 3 finally gets its most hotly demanded feature in years: an authentic male pattern baldness system
By Joshua Wolens published
News Also like 200 other patch notes, but whatever.
![Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 header art - woman dressed in red wearing a beret and wielding an assault rifle](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/KhHoanstPsuL2CwohmZhDd-320-80.jpg)
In a suspicious act of generosity, EA quietly slashes the Steam price on 4 Command and Conquer games to nearly nothing
By Joshua Wolens published
news I'm not sure if this is permanent or not, so take advantage while you can.
![Team Fortress 2](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/tsbQtMaMPvPatAt54o5B5X-320-80.jpg)
Half-Life 2 patch tool Steam makes history for the 2nd time this year with a concurrent user count of nearly 35 million people
By Joshua Wolens published
News I think this thing is gonna take off.
![Horny Housewives Booty Call Blackmail screenshot from Steam](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kvFxXSQPeJaJRjDhqxmpni-320-80.jpg)
You can finally accept your mum's friend request now Steam officially lets you hide your mountain of weird sex games
By Joshua Wolens published
News The downside is no one will see that you have all the achievements.
![Claudio Serafino raises his hand, which is glowing blue.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/CjfcTpV6YTNcnnaPydN9CA-320-80.jpg)
Tekken 8 boss Katsuhiro Harada helps bereaved fan preserve AI 'ghost' of their dead brother
By Joshua Wolens published
News The tear-jerking plea was brought to Harada's attention on Twitter.
![Doom running in the tiny screen of an electric toothbrush.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/wqQ6gTSKmrJNWpFGvhXUEA-320-80.jpg)
Nightmarish WiFi toothbrush finally does some good after tech wizard hacks Doom onto it
By Joshua Wolens published
News The thing about the panopticon is Jeremy Bentham never imagined blasting pinkies on it.
![Helldivers 2 Boosters - A squad of divers](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/t9kdwTgdbq5cu97kp6iJmB-320-80.jpg)
Helldivers 2 boss finds Starship Troopers renaissance 'humbling,' says the game is that 'without the plot armour', and nothing captures that better than your frantic near-death videos
By Joshua Wolens published
News Next time you die to a brood commander, imagine Johan Pilestedt steepling his fingers and smiling.