Joshua Wolens
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
Solo dev says he's bucking against the survival 'formula' that makes them stale, and if you want to actually make an axe from scratch does he have the game for you
By Joshua Wolens published
News The Last Plague: Blight is going to make you go through every step of forging a bronze blade, mister.
'Subconsciously, we were all ready to die': Stalker 2 developers secretly prepared for Russia's invasion
By Joshua Wolens published
News A new documentary sheds light on Stalker's development at war.
Bethesda honcho says Starfield is 'the best game we've ever made' in massive bout of amnesia
By Joshua Wolens published
News To be fair, Skyrim came out ages ago. Maybe he forgot.
Frostpunk dev's quietly very cool survival game where you manage relationships with your alt-universe selves gets delayed to next year
By Joshua Wolens published
News I am altering The Alters. Pray I do not alter them any further.
Cyberpunk 2077 engine lead says some of its legendary launch bugs happened because the alternative was even worse: 'Either you show a T-pose, or you hard crash… we prefer not to hard crash'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Hey, me too.
Bethesda says it took cues from the best game in its history for Shattered Space, but it's not winning fans over to 'an already catatonic game'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Still, it's nice that my community got some representation.
Vampire Survivors dev opens publishing arm, tells Web3 and F2P mobile games to stuff it
By Joshua Wolens published
News Rules are rules.
Fallout Tactics lead on exploring the 'bigotry' of the Brotherhood of Steel long before Bethesda got there: 'I really enjoyed killing off the nobility of them'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Fallout Tactics had some big ideas even if it didn't make good on all of them.
Age of Mythology's least-loved expansion looks like it's had an overhaul in its remastered version, and we'll be able to play as China 'soon'
By Joshua Wolens published
News We're heading east.
Fallout Tactics' lead designer tips his hat to Bethesda for succeeding where they failed: 'It can be done. You just need to be a multinational with more than 18 months'
By Harvey Randall published
News "Our approach was just terrible."
Konami just put out Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 patches that finally make them into the ports we should have got a year ago
By Joshua Wolens published
News Pretty good.
The mathematical constant of Pi is playing Pokémon on Twitch—after 25,000 hours it's curbstomped two children and power-levelled its starter, but is yet to escape the first town
By Joshua Wolens published
News You can do it, Seth.
Nervous gulps as Behaviour acquires Darkest Dungeon dev Red Hook a week after killing Dead By Daylight spin-off studio it acquired 2 years ago
By Joshua Wolens published
News Hook, line, and sinker.
The Future Mobile Gaming show brings together Warframe, EVE, and FF16's Ben Starr this September 26, here's how to watch it
By Joshua Wolens published
News Portable gaming? They said it couldn't be done.
Capcom finally explains what a 'deluxe remaster' actually is, then asks which of its series you want to get the treatment next
By Joshua Wolens published
News Including Devil May Cry, Onimusha, or, you know, Dead Rising again.
Shadows of Doubt review: An innovative immersive sim that will have you feeling like a true detective
By Joshua Wolens published
Murder Was The Case Clue in.
GOG is delisting 29 games this September—you have 12 days to grab the ones you care about and 2 days to grab the ones you probably don't
By Joshua Wolens published
News Unless you're the world's biggest Viruz fan.
Games industry hurtles further into self-parody as ESRB leaks existence of a Horizon Zero Dawn Remaster
By Joshua Wolens published
News Meanwhile, Bloodborne languishes in console prison.
EA says it's got a 3rd and final Star Wars Jedi game cooking in speech to imperial senate of investors—oh, and 40 million people have played the first 2 already
By Joshua Wolens published
News We will soon witness the power of an armed and fully operational videogame for modern consoles and the personal computer.
Vampire: The Masquerade – Reckoning of New York just feels like the adventures of the World of Darkness' most annoying kindred
By Joshua Wolens published
Bloody Mess This one isn't passing the Toreador test.
Jason Momoa was 'really mad and yelling' on the Minecraft movie set, says Valkyrae: 'I just saw him mistreat some of the crew'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Valkyrae has a cameo in the upcoming film.
EVE players are in revolt over CCP's blockchain plans: 'None of us want this crypto slop'
By Joshua Wolens published
NEWS EVE Frontier's marketing push is off to a rough start with the series' fans.
Tony Hawk eats magical truth-telling salad, immediately confirms he and Activision have got something cooking for the first time since Vicarious Visions got swallowed
By Joshua Wolens published
News That's all you're getting. Unless you want some salad. There's loads of that.
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