
Justin Wagner
Justin first became enamored with PC gaming when World of Warcraft and Neverwinter Nights 2 rewired his brain as a wide-eyed kid. As time has passed, he's amassed a hefty backlog of retro shooters, CRPGs, and janky '90s esoterica. Whether he's extolling the virtues of Shenmue or troubleshooting some fiddly old MMO, it's hard to get his mind off games with more ambition than scruples. When he's not at his keyboard, he's probably birdwatching or daydreaming about a glorious comeback for real-time with pause combat. Any day now...
Latest articles by Justin Wagner

Path of Exile 2 director isn't worried about ARPG competition, in part thanks to seasons: 'So long as people are willing to come back and play our game for a month four times a year, then I'm good'
By Justin Wagner published
News This town is big enough for the two of us.

The team behind Shredder's Revenge has a Marvel beat 'em up on the way with a whopping 15 characters and unsurprisingly gorgeous pixel art
By Justin Wagner published
News Now featuring Richard Rider and however many inches of Venom.

What will we do at the end of the world? If MMOs are any indication: mostly what we already do, plus a lot of dancing
By Justin Wagner published
🕺 It's hard to envision our last days on the big blue marble, but I've already said goodbye to worlds aplenty.

One year later, City of Heroes' officially recognized fan server has me praying it's the future of dead MMOs
By Justin Wagner published
Heroic Who says you can't go home?

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide’s getting a new roguelite wave defense mode that sounds a whole lot like a souped-up take on Killing Floor
By Justin Wagner published
News Mortis Trials will see players stack unique buffs over 12 waves of heretic-slaying carnage.

Seekers of Skyveil, the MOBA—extraction shooter mashup, is shutting down less than a month after release: ‘We have no choice but to bring this short journey to an end’
By Justin Wagner published
News Developer Elodie will close its doors the same day it sunsets its ambitious debut game.

REPO dev says it wasn’t actually inspired by Lethal Company, and started as a singleplayer cleaning game: ‘It was nice, but far from what REPO is now’
By Justin Wagner published
News A new developer vlog spills the beans on the game’s solo origins, as well ideas for future updates.

Monster Hunter Wilds' first free update will feature 'a whole host of new additions' and a majestic water wyvern for players to blow sky high
By Justin Wagner published
News Bubble blowing double-baby Mizutsune is finally en route to the Forbidden Lands.

Wield a brinerevolver as a brinehunter in Abyssus, the briniest ‘brinepunk’ shooter this side of the Mariana Trench
By Justin Wagner published
News A new trailer shows off the co-op roguelite’s gunplay chops and teases an upcoming demo.

If you were worried Onimusha 2 won’t be hard enough, I have great news: Hell mode is here to ruin your life
By Justin Wagner published
News The long-awaited remaster finally has a release date, and a new mode that the game’s own director is struggling to get through.

The Finals new season is here, toting permanent team deathmatch and a giant minigun
By Justin Wagner published
News Season 6 comes bearing balance changes, Power Shift changes, and more.

Bloober Team’s new horror label just unveiled an isometric survival horror game straight out of a comic book: ‘Avoid the Horned Man at all costs’
By Justin Wagner published
News I Hate This Place adapts an Eisner-nominated comic book and is set to release later this year.

You can finally try out Old School RuneScape’s first new skill in nearly two decades right now
By Justin Wagner published
News If you voted for shamanism like I did, you’ve got a boatload of consolation prizes in store.

Balatro's LocalThunk isn't 'trying to pull a Banksy', he just 'wanted to be left alone to make his game'
By Justin Wagner published
News According to his publisher, LocalThunk’s anonymity is less about artsy obfuscation and more about minding his own business.

The warframe with a guitar that shoots fire is out today alongside a bunch of metalcore-inspired skins, cementing Warframe's spiral into Y2K madness
By Justin Wagner published
News Techrot Encore is here, so get out your wallet chains and CD binders.

Arrowhead’s CEO got a call from PlayStation when he said players could save their money and wait to buy Helldivers 2 until the servers were fixed: They ‘asked me what the f*** I’m smoking’
By Justin Wagner published
News It’s said you should always be closing, even on Super Earth.

The United Nations asked Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead if it'd give a talk on psychological manipulation: ‘Could we brainwash an entire community to fight for a fascist state? … Would we be okay with that? Turns out, yeah’
By Justin Wagner published
News Players’ eagerness in the fight for Super Earth begs the question: are we the baddies?

American Truck Simulator’s latest teaser is just a sound effect and no one seems to agree on what exactly it means
By Justin Wagner published
News Whatever it is, it doesn’t sound like the game’s current coterie of big rigs.

Major performance issues aside, over half of Monster Hunter Wilds’ sales are from Steam alone
By Justin Wagner published
News The formerly console-exclusive series is now among the most-played games on PC

After years of playing as stupid, boring humans in Fallout, you can finally channel your inner Walton Goggins and become a ghoul in Fallout 76
By Justin Wagner published
News The Ghoul Within update kicks off the game's 20th season with ghoulification, new perks, and more.

World of Warcraft Classic’s Season of Discovery may be teasing a legendary weapon that players have speculated is in the game for two decades
By Justin Wagner published
That’s a hunter weapon.

Get in here, stalker: Stalker 2’s Patch 1.3 is here with a whopping 1,200 fixes
By Justin Wagner published
News The janky, joyous survival FPS now becomes less janky, more joyous.

Larian's Swen Vincke subtweets anyone still fixated on singleplayer games' commercial viability: 'They just have to be good'
By Justin Wagner published
News The Baldur's Gate guru sends out a reminder that no revenue projection is as convincing as, well, a good game.
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