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 added a gang notoriety system to GTA 5, but it mostly seems to make them murder everyone except me
By Joshua Wolens Published
LS Customs Which, you know, is positive I guess.

We saw The Witcher 3 – Songs of the Past in action, and the full-game remaster that's coming this year too
By Joshua Wolens Published
Picking Dandelion Just when he thought he was out, Songs of the Past pulls Geralt back in.

Metro 2039 takes us back to Moscow, but it's still got some delicious bits of Exodus in there
By Joshua Wolens Published
Going Under Delicious up until you realise you've wasted all your gas mask juice trying to open a closet door.

I attempted to become a professional driver in a GTA 5 where every car had no friction
By Joshua Wolens Published
Los Santos Customs Gotta make ends meet somehow.

I turned car friction off in GTA 5. Help
By Joshua Wolens Published
Los Santos Customs I have died 400 times in the last 20 seconds. I have accelerated Samsara's Wheel to the speed of light.

The first physical PC game I remember playing shows what Sony is thoughtlessly destroying
By Joshua Wolens Published
Phys Ed Me and a bunch of big-box PC games are going to go full boomer or prove a very important point.

Don't tell Nintendo, but I turned GTA 5 into Pokémon Go using a mod
By Joshua Wolens Published
Los Santos Customs Also, probably don't tell Rockstar.

Today in GTA 5 mods: Turning Franklin into a walking car-cannon
By Joshua Wolens Published
Los Santos Customs This is why we need public transport investment.

I modded GTA 5's NPCs to be punishable for their crimes, and also much more polite
By Joshua Wolens Published
Los Santos Customs Oh, and I still keep falling asleep in the middle of the road.

Stop waiting to play Stalker 2: The 2.0 update makes it the game it's wanted to be for 2 years
By Joshua Wolens Published
News Get in here, Stalker.

I modded GTA 5 into a life-sim RPG with mining, foraging, a mini-economy, and the ability to fall asleep in the middle of the road
By Joshua Wolens Published
Los Santos Customs Which is what it's always been missing.

I'm modding GTA 5 every day until it becomes GTA 6 or breaks, starting with a new vehicle and enough missiles to level a city block
By Joshua Wolens Published
Los Santos Custom Baby steps.

I played the economic simulator that could 'make a convert out of Karl Marx himself' to see if it could convert me
By Joshua Wolens Published
Late To Class Though I'm not Karl Marx, just in case you're confused.

EverQuest Legends is the only MMO that could hook me in 2026
By Joshua Wolens Published
Legendary Admittedly, I am a very specific type of guy.

After giving it 2 patches and dropping it like a stone, Bethesda promises to bring Switch 2 optimisations to Oblivion Remastered on other platforms
By Joshua Wolens Published
News I'll take it.

Firefox stunts on Edge as Microsoft gears up to neuter adblockers: 'uBlock Origin isn't going anywhere'
By Joshua Wolens Published
News Blocked. Blocked. Blocked. None of these corpo browsers are free of sin.

Persona big boss says 'I think we have to do' remakes of the series' most-neglected games
By Joshua Wolens Published
News Put away your PSPs, friends.

Marvel Rivals hits the Ozempic, comes back 40 GB lighter
By Joshua Wolens Published
News Svelte and superheroic.

Larian drops new Baldur's Gate 3 stats and you're all monsters: More non-Durge players killed Alfira than Durge and, worst of all, 9,000 people played on portrait monitors
By Joshua Wolens Published
News Excuse me, I feel sick.

I desperately need this TTRPG to become a videogame—it's one of the coolest things I've ever seen
By Joshua Wolens Published
News I am the foremost practitioner of sword dialectics.

Our long Caribbean nightmare is over: You can hide the blow pipe in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced now
By Joshua Wolens Published
News Fashion assassin.

My new favourite Tolkien game is free, has over 40 years of history, and would run on a toaster
By Joshua Wolens Published
Sil-Q Song Feeling Sil-y.

The next game on GOG's preservation list would be your favourite ARPG if it hadn't released the same year as Diablo 2, and it's on sale now
By Joshua Wolens Published
News Opportunity NOX twice.
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