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

After fining Google more money than exists on Earth, Russia demands so little from EA it feels like a weird joke
By Joshua Wolens published
News Well one of these strategies has gotta work.

Elder Scrolls 6 is a ways off, but who needs it? The world's most specific game jam is back with 40 playable entries based off Oblivion's wonderful/awful persuade-o-wheel
By Joshua Wolens published
News The wheel has come full circle.

If you've ever had your shoes stolen in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, that was apparently PC Gamer's fault, sorry
By Jody Macgregor published
News Chris Livingston's fault specifically.

CCP changed its name rather than pick a fight with the Chinese Communist Party, which was probably wise
By Joshua Wolens published
News The EVE dev just has fewer armoured divisions, is all.

Videogame 'beta versions' are anything but, says veteran RPG dev—real games are 'sh***y, sh***y, sh***y, sh***y, slightly less sh***y, and it skyrockets' at the end
By Joshua Wolens published
News Better betas, but better.

Sony records a $766 million impairment loss against Bungie for the 2025 financial year, a 1-2 punch of Destiny 2 and Marathon failing to meet its expectations
By Joshua Wolens published
News Sony bought Bungie for $3.6 billion in 2022.

Indie shooter devs pull a reverse-Concord: No one played their game, but they 'make it free to play and keep the servers online indefinitely' anyway
By Joshua Wolens published
News Be free.

Warhorse's new creative director tells us why the secret sauce for Kingdom Come Deliverance is making things difficult for players: 'The usual answer is OK let's get rid of the friction—We don't work like that'
By Joshua Wolens published
Warchief Prokop Jirsa doesn't mind a few rough edges.

Morrowind in Elden Ring mod makes mindblowing progress in video 'dedicated to that one guy that commented this project was not going to come out'
By Joshua Wolens published
News That's dedication.

Mozilla, Stop Killing Games and more team up to tell the UK to stop making the internet worse
By Joshua Wolens published
News "Even targeted age restrictions of specific features could mean that all users are required to complete intrusive age assurance processes".

IO boss says surprise! Not only is 007 First Light imminent but that fantasy RPG it announced years ago is 'Very, very far' along too
By Joshua Wolens published
News And then? Right back onto Hitman.

Disgusting! Depraved monster adds effective quest markers to Morrowind, shows no remorse
By Joshua Wolens published
News Is nothing sacred?

Kingdom Come: Deliverance has its own $180 perfume, and it's crucial you remember 'These are not distant notes, but fragments of a world you already know'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Got it?

Linux century marches on as Discord brings updater parity with Windows and easy installs for more distros
By Joshua Wolens published
There are dozens of us.

What colour car would James Bond never drive? IO had to have multiple meetings just to figure it out for 007 First Light while huge plot decisions went down easy
By Joshua Wolens published
News Colour me shocked.

Blood pressure too low? Try our quiz about the most freakishly out-of-touch things tech CEOs have ever said
By Joshua Wolens published
That's rich The good news is: they all make more money than we'll see in a lifetime.

Hear me out: What if James Bond just shouldn't be in videogames?
By Joshua Wolens published
More Like Lames Bond Double-oh-no, not you.

Obsidian returns to The Outer Worlds after 3 years to add a whole new weapon type, fix bugs, and delist its OG version
By Joshua Wolens published
News Good, good, less good.

After 3 hours with 007 First Light, IO's weaknesses are on display in a way they haven't been since Hitman: Absolution
By Joshua Wolens published
Jimmy Bond Jr James Bond: Spy, lover, connoisseur, obsessive hand-sanitizer collector.

Valve rolls out the red carpet for its new Steam controller with battery warnings, gamepad quick-chat and—bonus!—remote download controls
By Joshua Wolens published
News Finally, even less reason to get up off the sofa.

I played the Lord of the Rings RPG where Frodo can straight-up die and the game just keeps on going
By Joshua Wolens published
Fro-done Which would have made for a different book, I think.

Peter Molyneux's right about one thing: It's sad how no one seems to care about god games anymore
By Joshua Wolens published
News Wherefore art thou, o god game?

Last year's best climbing game was also a horror game, and it gets a big anniversary update today
By Joshua Wolens published
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