Joshua Wolens

Joshua Wolens

News Writer

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

I modded Crazy Taxi into Grand Theft Auto 5

By Joshua Wolens Published

Los Santos Customs It's time to make some crazy money.

Los Santos Customs
What the hell are you guys doing?

By Joshua Wolens Published

Bethsidian Smashing together Bethesda and Obsidian is baffling.

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Bethsidian
Beyond Good and Evil was never worth 20 years of angst

By Joshua Wolens Published

Jade Anniversary How did a game so sweet and fleeting become a two-decade sticking point for Ubisoft?

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Jade Anniversary
A screenshot showing Mirklurk's pattern-based health bar in action.
This guy just sold me on his game with the health bar alone

By Joshua Wolens Published

News I am in the presence of genius.

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GTA 5 has true air travel now thanks to the mod I just installed, but they won't let me give me my pals piggybacks onto the plane

By Joshua Wolens Published

Los Santos Customs Stupid TSA.

Los Santos Customs
Kojima says his Sony split was amicable and they both still love us very much

By Joshua Wolens Published

News "We encourage you to take them with a dose of scepticism."

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Marked for Mayhem screenshot
Marked For Mayhem is a 4-player dungeon crawler that wants you to try to win as a team while also beating all your teammates as a player—good luck

By Joshua Wolens Published

News I am being devoured by my own contradictions already.

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Bringing a club down on a helmeted guard's head from behind
We just saw a big chunk of Thief Remastered gameplay, and I'm more desperate than ever to play

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Bafford's Manor is gonna be emptier than ever when I'm through with it.

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Young Suns screenshot
Young Suns is an optimistic life sim for an unoptimistic time coming in November, and I'm already forming intense opinions about its cast of NPCs

By Joshua Wolens Published

News I would die for Nora. Sorry not sorry.

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Escape from Playtime screenshot
Escape From Playtime is a co-op survival horror where you play itsy-bitsy toy animals, and its playtest is taking signups now

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Many toy creatures will be harmed in the playing of this videogame.

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Lemonade Apocalypse key art
Lemonade Apocalypse has 3 simple tasks for you: Become a lemonade billionaire, 'fuel climate change,' and 'manipulate voters'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Can you do that?

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Gameplay from Neon Abyss 2
Neon Abyss 2 has a new final boss, a release date, and at least 1 massive fish worth many, many points

By Joshua Wolens Published

News I like all of these things.

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Quarantine Zone Miami Zero update
Quarantine Zone is getting a free expansion with a whole new location, and it's time to 'Experiment with drugs'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News You don't need to tell me twice.

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Ball X Pit: Risen Ballbylon art
Ball x Pit just revealed a whole new expansion: Risen Ballbylon

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Shoutout to my man the Scandalmonger.

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A screenshot of a medeival stronghold
Stronghold 4 boasts castles aplenty and a rogue's gallery of weirdos to pit them against

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Sign me up, m'lord.

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It rules that a 27-year-old RPG, one of the greatest of all time, is still getting patches

By Joshua Wolens Published

News I wish all games worked like this.

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I have modded the most exciting thing possible into GTA 5: Hard and soft credit checks and realistic personal finance

By Joshua Wolens Published

Los Santos Customs Money talks, wealth shoots.

Los Santos Customs
I have officially made Grand Theft Auto 5 good by turning it into a golf sim

By Joshua Wolens Published

Los Santos Customs GTA Tour.

Los Santos Customs
GTA 5's 'Become a celebrity' mod is almost weirdly fully featured

By Joshua Wolens Published

Los Santos Customs I wanna be a star.

Los Santos Customs
Microsoft hasn't marched Fable to the guillotine because it's 'vital to the DNA' of Xbox, says the game's director

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Hurting Fable would be like hurting the Xbox brand itself, to hear Ralph Fulton tell it.

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The Witcher 3 next gen update release times - Ciri and Geralt sitting
The Witcher 3 producer says it's scary to work with another studio on the game's expansion: 'I also think twice about leaving my baby with someone'

By Harvey Randall Published

News But, "there are people over there who are not me who take the best care ever of them."

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I am Mark Zuckerberg

By Joshua Wolens Published

Los Santos Customs What more do I have to say?

Los Santos Customs
Geralt fighting a big monster
The Witcher 3 'is not untouchable,' story director says of the upcoming expansion and remaster: 'I still find some places that I think maybe nowadays, I would do it differently'

By Andy Chalk Published

news CD Projekt is remastering its RPG masterpiece and rolling out a new expansion in 2027, and that means changes are coming.

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If you need proof The Witcher 3's new expansion is in safe hands, its lead writer literally wrote her thesis on Hearts of Stone: 'To probably prove to some of my professors that games are worthy'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Mission accomplished.

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The Witcher 3's story director says an ideal quest is 'constructed in such a way that the player puts the controller away, stands up, and starts walking'

By Harvey Randall Published

News "Then [the player] goes back, and then the player picks one of the choices."

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