
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

Fanatical's running a $3-a-pop Bethesda bundle, so it's time to finally put down Oblivion Remastered and play Morrowind, the actual best TES game
By Joshua Wolens published
News I don't make the rules.

Mod adds Dark Souls-style player messages to Oblivion Remastered so you can write 'Try finger but hole' in front of Patrick Stewart
By Joshua Wolens published
News Mod ahead therefore time for joy.

Take-Two shares tank after GTA 6's delay, CEO Strauss Zelnick assures panicky investors it'll still make more money than god and it's 'steadfast in our commitment to excellence'
By Joshua Wolens published
News All to the lifeboats; women and children first.

Bethesda gives full-throated shout-out to Skyblivion fan remake after giving the whole dev team free Oblivion Remastered keys: 'I think what they're doing is very special'
By Joshua Wolens published
It's all love, no hate on both sides.

Skyrim lead designer makes it sound like there's gonna be loading screens in Bethesda games for years to come yet, bucko: 'We just didn’t have a choice, really'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Heavy load.

Modding turf war erupts as 'notoriously controversial' dev puts out an Unofficial Oblivion Remastered Patch one week after the game came out
By Joshua Wolens published
news The ghosts of Elder Scrolls' modding past are already rearing their heads.

Assassin's Creed Shadows announces more difficulties, more immersion options, more Jesuits, and a bo staff in its year 1 roadmap
By Joshua Wolens published
News Just what I wanted.

Ex-GTA dev says PC makes scads of cash now so hopefully GTA 6's 'PC version will be closer behind' consoles—that is if 'decision-day' at Rockstar doesn't give us a last-minute delay
By Joshua Wolens published
News Rockstar might have shut down his blog, but not even the Housers can stop Obbe Vermeij from posting.

If you ever thought Vampire Survivors was missing gore, lore, and buckwild nudity, then do I have a game for you
By Joshua Wolens published
Dark mode Conquest Dark is a Vampire Survivors-like that manages to strike the right chord between fresh and familiar.

Devs lament Oblivion Remastered's surprise release as Todd Howard eats their lunch: 'I noticed a complete stop in game sales from about 2 pm onward on Oblivion day'
By Joshua Wolens published
News "I'm pretty sure Oblivion releasing gave us like a 10-20% haircut on daily revenue."

Ubisoft remembers it owns Splinter Cell, patches Steam achievements into Blacklist 12 years after it first came out
By Joshua Wolens published
News Call it an act of conviction.

Bethesda wants you to suggest ideas for Oblivion Remastered, so get over there and tell it to add more shortcut slots and a difficulty between Adept and Expert
By Joshua Wolens published
News Plus, you know, any ideas of your own I guess.

Larian honcho Swen 'The Hammer' Vincke takes a new victory lap on 'high-profile people' who say singleplayer is dead: 'We've proven with BG3 that you can put in a pretty high budget and expect pretty high results'
By Joshua Wolens published
News You tell 'em, Swen.

Ultra-faithful Oblivion Remastered inexplicably fouls up a key bit of Dark Brotherhood lore with a gussied-up door texture
By Joshua Wolens published
News They're, uh, adopted.

My favourite Elder Scrolls YouTuber returned after 2 years, and it's made me fall in love with ridiculous challenge runs all over again
By Joshua Wolens published
Up to the challenge Challenge accepted.

As she chalks up 10,000+ final boss kills, Elden Ring folk hero says her record is 100 in a day and she has absolutely no plans to stop
By Joshua Wolens published
News Let Me Solo Them is like Let Me Solo Her, but for Them.

Oblivion Remastered modder has already fixed its awful levelled loot system, after very reasonably blacking out in an 'incomprehensible fury'
By Joshua Wolens published
News The one crime the remaster didn't fix.

Modders have torn apart Oblivion Remastered and found 'potential' for proper modding, but without tools from Bethesda we'll need 'a lot of reverse engineering work… before modding can be fully realised'
By Joshua Wolens published
News It won't be the same without Thomas the Tank Engine.

Here's how to watch FGS Live at Gamescom LATAM this May 2
By Joshua Wolens published
News Olá, gamers.

White Knuckle is a grimy, Buckshot Roulette-looking game about fast-climbing your way out of industrial hell, and I can't put its demo down
By Joshua Wolens published
News Up, up, and away.

OG Oblivion designer thought the remaster was just 'a texture update' until he laid eyes on it, and now he thinks we need a new word to describe it
By Joshua Wolens published
News Original Oblivion designer Bruce Nesmith reckons the remaster should be called "Oblivion 2.0."

Oblivion Remastered kept the acting gaffe where its master speech trainer says 'Let me do that one again' and repeats their line—It's even lip-synced now
By Joshua Wolens published
News She's said it before and she'll say it again.
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