Latest articles by Joshua Wolens
Europa Universalis lead says design documents stifle creativity: 'You end up with a bunch of idea guys who write all the documents and the rest are there to follow'
News Johan Andersson's team at Paradox used to lean on the practice more, but Andersson said he "doesn't believe" in it these days.
Europa Universalis 2's launch was a desperate gambit for Paradox's survival: 'It needs to be done so it's sold in the US market before Christmas, because we need the money else we cannot pay people'
News The grand strategy giant had a hard time making its name.
Before Paradox became king of grand strategy, it made a Baldur's Gate-inspired RPG doomed by 'bugs, many and diverse, some more interesting than the gameplay'
News Gamespot called Valhalla Chronicles "an insult to anyone who can walk and chew gum at the same time."
Europa Universalis lead Johan Andersson says Paradox's DLC model has been 'pretty f***ing great': 'You decide what's going in, you decide the scope, you decide exactly when you can release'
News Andersson said Paradox has several pipelines for keeping games "alive," and that it's a "pretty great system."
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2's biggest mistake is being called Bloodlines 2
Damned if you do A rose by any other name would… be quite a bit better, actually.
25 years of making history: Europa Universalis lead Johan Andersson talks grey hair, running out of ideas for DLC, and only hiring a menus guy after 3 games
Time Paradox A quarter century? Barely enough time to develop Reformed Eastern Hussars.
Danny Trejo becomes Bethesda reply guy, pops up amid the studio's Fallout anniversary fest to demand a New Vegas remaster
News The hero we need, and the hero we deserve.
Steam Next Fest gave one indie game a 51,500% increase in players—'1 week ago we had 3 players… thank you all so much'
News Which must look quite good on a line graph.
Effulgence RPG is a game made entirely of ASCII art where you convert your enemies' raw parts into new weapons, and if that doesn't convince you to give its demo a look I don't know what will
News The tragedy is I don't think I can reliably put ASCII art in this section of our CMS.
Brace yourself for yassified Homer Simpson as leaks say an entire Springfield map is headed for Fortnite
News Annoyed grunt (jacked).
Congratulations to Victoria 3 players on causing 860,000,000,000,000,000 deaths by famine in a single year, enough to depopulate Earth 107,000,000 times
News On the plus side, over a thousand anarchist Prussias.
Morrowind mega-mod Tamriel Rebuilt is adding 'one of the holy grails' that players have wanted 'for more than 20 years' in its next mammoth expansion
News Poison Song is "expected to be a matter of months away."
Here are the Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 unlock times for your region
Time of Undeath One Bloodlines! Two Bloodlines! Mwa-ha-ha-ha!
Fallout is coming to a museum near you (if you are near Las Vegas)
News Pretty far away from you if you're not near Las Vegas.
Arc Raiders seems set for a meteor-impact-sized launch as its weekend playtest becomes Steam's 89th most-popular game by concurrent players
News Someone's gotta raid all those arcs.
The top 100 PC games
Class of 2025 Welcome to the 2025 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games you can play.
The Sleeping Dogs movie has a finished script draft, per series torchbearer Simu Liu and his own sleepy dog
News That's all you need.
26 years later, System Shock 2's music is a crucial part of its level design, and turning it off is a tragedy
Synth Life I mostly just want to make you listen to Med Sci 1.
I played communist Germany's only arcade cabinet and you can too, comrade
Marx at the arcade VEB Polytechnik Karl-Marx-Stadt is my dev to watch for 2026.
Nightdive puts out surprise 'definitive' update for 30-year-old I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream
News You think they'd at least patch in a mouth.
Steam is officially bigger than Canada with a 41-million concurrent user record
News War presumably inevitable.
Capcom execs were bewildered that people might want to play original Resident Evil when GOG approached them about it: 'We have all of those remakes. It’s already the superior experience'
News What you fail to understand, Mr GOG, is that new thing is shiny.
