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
FTC says I told you judge, I warned you bro, as it unloads on Microsoft for Game Pass price hikes and 'a degraded product' that it says break promises made to seal the Activision merger
By Joshua Wolens published
News The FTC notes that Microsoft didn't mention these hikes when it was talking about bringing CoD to Game Pass subs on day one.
Sega identifies harasser making 'excessive slanderous and insulting comments' towards one of its staff, sues them into oblivion, and says if anyone wants to try the same it's their funeral
By Joshua Wolens published
News "As there has been no improvement, we have been forced to take legal action."
China is dispatching crack teams of AI interrogators to make sure its corporations' chatbots are upholding 'core socialist values'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Heck, they even have a theme song.
Neva is a beautiful side-scrolling platformer from the Gris devs with an adorable doggy companion that is inevitably going to die horribly
By Joshua Wolens published
Wolf Dread Please don't hurt my dog. Wolf. Deer. Thing.
Tabletop game forumite achieves posting godhood, emerging from the void after 100,000 hour 11 year ban to continue the same argument from 2013
By Joshua Wolens published
News No, I am not revealing my username.
No Man's Sky goes 5.0 with a sweeping tech update that's 'adding things the community has almost given up hope on ever happening'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Worlds Part I promises to make the galaxy more resplendent than ever.
I am very tempted to swap out my no-name office chair for this Prime Day deal on our favorite gaming chair
By Joshua Wolens published
Prime Day Mostly because I think magnets are cool, I admit.
This 4K, 144Hz Prime Day monitor deal might finally convince me to leave the 1440p life behind
By Joshua Wolens published
Prime Day
Tom & Jerry meets Rimworld in this complex city builder that's all about throwing off the yoke of feline tyranny
By Joshua Wolens published
News You have nothing to lose but your cheese.
Indika publisher, Frostpunk dev to donate $50,000 to 'support Ukrainian kids' in wake of Russian missile strike on the country's biggest children's hospital
By Joshua Wolens published
News 11 bit had announced plans for such a donation last year.
Persona 4 Golden mod turns it back into your granddaddy's Shin Megami Tensei, fixing the gravest aesthetic crime of its non-PS2 version
By Joshua Wolens published
News Fogging up your glasses.
You can pick up the best Star Wars RPG ever made on the most forgettable launcher ever made for free if you're a Prime Gaming sub
By Joshua Wolens published
News Apathy is… ah, whatever.
Alright, who wants to spot me $1,000 for this absurdly sumptuous Elden Ring lore book?
By Joshua Wolens published
News That's not a serious question. I will probably get into trouble if people take that as a serious question.
Rechristened 'Let Me Solo Them,' Elden Ring's greatest hero has overcome his first-time jitters and is now clowning on Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss
By Joshua Wolens published
News He's beginning to believe.
PVKK's full title is literally too big for our website, and the devs say it's 'Space Invaders, but the cannon you fire is really complicated'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Being a planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant is almost as complicated as saying it.
Fan effort to recreate the lost Fallout 3 we never got from the original devs gets a big update, goes open-source, and you can finally find it on Nexus Mods
By Joshua Wolens published
News Over and over, I keep going over the world we knew.
Spelunky creator comes out against god modes in brutal games like his because 'The amount of satisfaction one gets from succeeding eventually is incredible'
By Joshua Wolens published
News But he reckons it's reasonable to include god mode in "most games."
'I hope Miyazaki is proud of me': After 325 deaths and a 7-hour bossfight slog, streamer fulfils prophecy and beats Shadow of the Erdtree with a dance pad
By Joshua Wolens published
News The guilty set has, it turns out, got rhythm.
Steamy 'Overwatch cabaret club' where you can pay to have women fall asleep on voice chat with you gets obliterated, is immediately replaced by even steamier Apex version
By Joshua Wolens published
News What a world.
Obsidian says Larian's experience let it knock Baldur's Gate 3 multiplayer out of the park, but it wouldn't have been possible for Avowed
By Joshua Wolens published
News In Eora we go solo.
Obsidian went back and made Avowed's combat 'more juicy' because we all collectively winced at its underwhelming first showcase
By Joshua Wolens published
News It's a shame PCG doesn't do itemised review scores because you just know I'd be giving that gameplay a "juicy" rating.
Who wants a Watch Dogs film? Too bad, you're getting one anyway
By Joshua Wolens published
News To be fair I also regularly announce commitments I only hazily remember a decade later.
UK man imprisoned for 4 months after walking up to cops wielding 6-inch Master Sword
By Joshua Wolens published
News Anthony Bray will also have to pay a victims' surcharge of £154.
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