Latest articles by Joshua Wolens
Videogames are more of a rich guy's hobby than ever, says analyst, and that's 'leaving a whole portion of the market to Fortnite, Minecraft, Roblox'
News Arise, ye gamers from your slumber.
The best non-Hitman game from Hitman's devs wouldn't have happened if it didn't blow EA execs' minds and 'low expectations' with a hocus-pocus demo powered mostly by dreams
News Sometimes you just have to believe.
Baldur's Gate 3 had romance system ambitions that got killed by 'time constraints,' like a 'friendship' alternative for the companions you don't smooch
News On the plus side: confirmation the writers have read your fan-smut.
Fallout megamod maker says there were 'moments of uncertainty' about how okay Bethesda was with it, but gives props to Todd for staying cool about the whole thing
News Leave the mod squad on their tod, says Todd.
Even after ZA/UM's messy breakup, the writing team still has a cadre of sad communists—but you won't have to play Zero Parades as one if you don't want to
News But I will, though. Just so you know.
Shadowheart and Lae'zel's Baldur's Gate 3 romance came naturally because their writers realised they 'were writing the same story from different directions'
News Green alien lady, goth cult lady: tom-ay-to, tom-ah-to.
Baldur's Gate 3 writer says its Dragon-Agey rep system is there to stop you totally breaking the NPCs, but it 'becomes a dice roll' at points to keep romance natural
News Work smarter, not harder. Still insanely hard, though.
Masters of Albion is a 'Best of Peter Molyneux' greatest hits collection in one game, but I fear it might not measure up to the games that inspired it
Something Moly-new No cube this time, though.
I installed the 154 GB 'biblically accurate Skyrim' mod and only crashed my PC like 8 times
Weird Weekend I'm either about to brick my computer or prove a very important point.
Here are the Death Stranding 2 PC unlock times in your timezone
Sam Time, Sam Place Sam, this is PC Gamerman.
Dev breaks down in tears when 4 years of work are rewarded with $250,000 earnings in a week: 'I don't know why people are so nice'
News Sometimes nice things happen!
On the ground at PlayerUnknown's 2-day in-studio modjam where devs broke their own game
Jam Sesh Brendan Greene is back to modding, but now it's his own game.
Todd Howard would really have preferred not to announce The Elder Scrolls 6 a full 8 years ago, sounds like: 'Just pretend we didn't announce it. Doesn't exist. No one's heard a word'
News I also constantly make commitments I really wish I hadn't, so I understand.
GTA Wiki goes indie as it slams 'terrible' Fandom ad plague: 'Intrusive, unavoidable for most viewers, and huge'
News Busted.
Deus Ex's maligned sequel was the most 2026 game of 2003: It clocked the 21st century even harder than Metal Gear Solid 2
Give Me Deus Ex (Invisible War) Give me Deus Ex (Invisible War)
The Hitman TV show has been silently assassinated: 'It's dead in the water'
News Police suspect blood money was involved.
Marathon dev effortlessly bodies haters who say Bungie's not the studio that made Halo anymore—rattles off 40 Halo OGs who still work there and says he can list more if you want
News The lesson is: never tweet.
You've got a narrow window to nab OpenTTD on Steam for free, because Transport Tycoon Deluxe has just been un-abandonwared by Atari
News Get rolling, tycoons.
Fortnite players revolt over V-Bucks changes as Epic devs appeal for calm: 'Paying the bills frees up our teams to continue driving stories and building stuff you love'
News A Fortnite boycott is planned for March 19.
ZA/UM doesn't want 'to invite too many comparisons' to Disco Elysium with new game Zero Parades—'We didn't feel like we wanted to repeat our greatest hits'
News Harrier Who Bois?
Bluepoint tech boss suggests Sony's scared of Valve, not Microsoft, and that's why it's pulling back from PC: 'It would be quite ironic if Valve ultimately ended up winning the console war'
News Me? I just think everyone's intimidated by the raw power and magnetism of Linux.
PlayerUnknown reckons he can take back the term 'metaverse' because 'It's just been co-opted by certain people… like, I still use Twitter because f**k [Elon Musk]'
News Them's fighting words.
French pirates adrift as major torrent site nuked by hacker who accuses it of hoarding user credit cards and DDoSing rivals: '6.6 million users. Years of lies. An empire built on extortion'
News The site, now twitching back to life, says the claims are false.
