Justin Wagner

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

Two characters from Mixtape wince as a baseball breaks a light in a stadium.
Claims that Mixtape will be delisted over music licenses are 'a lie,' says publisher

By Justin Wagner Published

News The developer paid for perpetual music licenses to avoid that problem.

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A Final Fantasy 11 character wearing a flamboyant red outfit.
Ancient MMO Final Fantasy 11 still has new things on the horizon 24 years after launch

By Justin Wagner Published

News The other Final Fantasy MMO is still doing its thing.

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Steam Controller comparison
Check your inbox: Steam Controller reservations are coming through

By Justin Wagner Published

News Not everyone got an email, but if you did, you'll have to act fast.

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Friendslop approaches total cultural victory as co-op hit Gamble With Your Friends sells 1 million copies in one week

By Justin Wagner Published

news Let's go gambling!

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This Team Fortress 2 zombie mod looks so good, we almost thought it was official

By Justin Wagner Published

news Left 4 Dead 3 or Mann vs. Machine 2?

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Darkest Dungeon studio refuses to AI generate deceased narrator's voice despite his permission: 'I would never, ever erode his incredible and timeless performances'

By Justin Wagner Published

news Many fall in the face of chaos, but not this one. Not today.

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An unofficial PC port of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess just released

By Justin Wagner Published

news Twilight Princess has escaped its containment on Nintendo consoles.

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Crimson Desert guide: A low-angled shot of Kliff looking off to the distance, lit by a campfire out of frame.
Pearl Abyss marketing director says Crimson Desert's rapid 'live service' patch cadence is business as usual for an MMO studio: 'That is not normal in the industry. That is normal here'

By Justin Wagner Published

News "The DNA of the company is inherent in listening to players."

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Tim Cain explains THAC0
Fallout co-creator Tim Cain once proposed a first-person time-travel RPG where you could assassinate historical figures and create paradoxes

By Justin Wagner Published

News "One, visit 15 different time periods. Two, meet interesting historical figures. Three, kill them."

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Pragmata: Hugh and Diana high-fiving.
Final Fantasy 14 player harnesses the power of furniture slots to make their in-game house look like Pragmata

By Justin Wagner Published

News "Increased placement limit is the best!"

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Psychonauts 2 review
Double Fine is the latest team at Microsoft to unionize

By Justin Wagner Published

news The studio behind Psychonauts and Keeper has filed a petition to the National Labor Relations Board.

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How a '90s Zelda PC port became a fangame factory, turning one legend into a thousand

By Justin Wagner Published

Classic Quest The story of ZQuest Classic, the fangame factory that turned one legend into over a thousand more.

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Classic Quest
JC Denton is surprised
A Utah age verification law targeting VPN users goes into effect this week

By Justin Wagner Published

News It's the first US state to explicitly target VPN use with its age check legislation.

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Nearly 40 years after launch, NetHack just got a 5.0.0 release with over 3,000 patch notes

By Justin Wagner Published

News Decades on, the pioneering roguelike continues to get updates.

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XCOM is getting a miniatures game from the company that brought Fallout to tabletop

By Justin Wagner Published

News Plastic tactics.

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A bunch of cursors huddled around a projector screen watching a black-and-white Popeye cartoon.
The creator of Infinite Craft has a new game where you explore a secret-filled social hub as your mouse cursor

By Justin Wagner Published

News Cursor Camp is a delightful reminder the internet is occasionally more than a torment nexus.

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A man with a cube for a head stands in a field surrounded by labeled floppy disks.
There's a game coming out this year where you fight your Steam backlog, and it's more dangerous the more you've spent

By Justin Wagner Published

News In Game Quest: The Backlog Battler, the examined life seems pretty lethal.

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After 9 years and 2 new Mortal Kombats, it looks like NetherRealm is finally making Injustice 3

By Justin Wagner Published

News Sounds super, man.

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Kliff looking serious
New Crimson Desert update lets you 'rematch' defeated enemies and adds new legendary creatures

By Justin Wagner Published

News Pearl Abyss's kitchen sink RPG continues to change rapidly.

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Orcs
After days of speculation over hard-coded anti-goblin bias from OpenAI, the company had to release an official memo on 'Where the goblins came from'

By Justin Wagner Published

News Creatures rule everything around me.

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Gamestop
GameStop reportedly wants to buy eBay, a company with four times its market value

By Justin Wagner Published

News CEO Ryan Cohen has big plans for the aging retailer.

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Invincible Vs may pack a punch for fans of the show, but I wish it had more going on outside its tight versus mode

By Justin Wagner Published

'Vincible Here's what I think, Mark.

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Vampire Survivors Eleanor closeup
Vampire Survivors dev is working on over 15 'projects,' though that includes DLC and updates

By Justin Wagner Published

News Poncle will have plenty to purvey.

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The three sisters from Sweet Hamster Days.
A Japanese visual novel where you're a pet hamster doted on by three sisters is back on Steam

By Justin Wagner Published

News Sweet Hamster Days is back on the menu.

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Final Fantasy 14 - A miqote doing the loveheart emote with a cake behind her
Final Fantasy 14 director wants pitches for a single-player spinoff, though he's 'half-joking'

By Justin Wagner Published

News "If someone's passionate enough to want to helm that sort of project, we would love to hear from you."

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