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
Palworld fights 'cheating on the official server' with new patch, but 'it is currently difficult to completely prevent all cheating immediately'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Cheating? Unpalworthy behaviour.
11 years in, Old School RuneScape's toaster graphics are about to look better than ever
By Joshua Wolens published
News An official HD mode is due, with an alpha planned "very soon."
Florida Joker issues new ultimatum to Rockstar over apparent GTA 6 trailer cameo: 'Let me voice the character'
By Joshua Wolens published
News And he still wants his millions, too.
World's biggest mod site says no to Palworld Pokémon mods after taking one look at Nintendo's record of 'mercilessly submitting legal challenges'
By Joshua Wolens published
News You won't find a Pikachu pal on Nexus Mods.
The Day Before studio asks whether you're going to believe it or your own lying eyes as it attributes the game's catastrophic performance to a 'hate campaign' by 'bloggers'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Fntastic shut its doors in December, but it's still making statements.
Former Pokémon legal chief says Palworld 'looks like the usual ripoff nonsense I would see a thousand times a year ' and he's 'surprised it got this far'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Say how you really feel.
Obsidian's Avowed is going 'classless', ditching Pillars of Eternity's crunchy stat-heavy builds in favour of Skyrim-like ability trees
By Joshua Wolens published
News I suppose classlessness is the logical next step for a studio so keen on historical materialism.
Palworld players discover you can kidnap and sell humans just like pals, although you will be warned it's not very polite
By Joshua Wolens published
News "On Palpargos Island, capturing humans in Palspheres is considered inhumane."
18 years on, The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion's unmatched comedic timing is still enough to go viral
By Joshua Wolens published
News I don't trust these snow guys.
PC is the most 'dominant' it's been this decade as two-thirds of devs say they're targeting the platform
By Joshua Wolens published
News Well, naturally.
'A huge mistake': Master Chief actor Pablo Schreiber rails against Halo TV show sex scene, says he 'wasn't listened to' when he argued against it
By Joshua Wolens published
News "But I am who I am. I don't write the scripts. I only give my opinion."
One of the best fantasy 4Xs on PC is free while the Steam keys last
By Joshua Wolens published
News There's a lot of keys, but they aren't—wait for it—endless.
Call of Duty's going to Alt + F4 itself if it catches players turning on aim assist while using a mouse
By Joshua Wolens published
News Who needs Task Manager?
Old School RuneScape player says 'see ya at a million!' after pickpocketing 500,000 NPCs in a doomed quest for treasure under multiple self-imposed restrictions
By Joshua Wolens published
News Greening the log by any means necessary.
After a 6 year brawl, Billy Mitchell is back in the record books even though Twin Galaxies 'had all our ducks in a row' for a courtroom showdown
By Joshua Wolens published
News Mitchell's scores are back in Twin Galaxies' historical archives, but not in its modern and updated leaderboards.
Star-studded cinematic horror Until Dawn is getting a big screen adaptation, an 'R-rated love letter to the horror genre'
By Joshua Wolens published
News No Peter Stormare, no deal.
Spooky '90s call centre sim Home Safety Hotline has wired up a direct line to my heart
By Joshua Wolens published
Who you gonna call? Operators are standing by.
Batman: Arkham Knight mod fills age-old plot hole about how the Dark Knight stays hydrated, blasts Dr Pepper toward thugs 'at a solid 112MPH'
By Joshua Wolens published
News "FASTER THAN ANY BASEBALL PLAYER EVER."
Prison Architect 2 goes 3D, promises smarter inmates and the most improbably whimsical carceral state yet
By Joshua Wolens published
News PA2 is going to another dimension.
Someone made 'probably the biggest map ever in videogame history' in Garry's Mod, a multiverse octillions of kilometres wide that's half-magic, half-maths, and wholly mind-boggling
By Joshua Wolens published
News I think this means we can finally make Carl Sagan's apple pie recipe.
14 years in, modders have given me yet another reason to return to Fallout: New Vegas—an in-game multiplayer riddle contest with free games for the winner
By Joshua Wolens published
News Presumably a game that's not rigged from the start.
Minecraft is gonna let you live life as 'the great white shark, the Arctic wolf, a leopardess, and more' in a BBC team-up to teach you about life on planet Earth
By Joshua Wolens published
News That's edutainment.
Rockstar banned T-Pain from playing GTA Online RP while he works on GTA 6, then bought the RP mod makers anyway: 'Y'all told me I couldn't do this s*** then y'all teamed up with the people that enable the RP s*** to happen?'
By Joshua Wolens published
News "They had this whole speech."