Latest articles by Joshua Wolens
Old School RuneScape just got its first new skill ever and players are psyched about it, apart from the guy the game accidentally branded 'Morbid Loner'
News It's a, uh, badge of honour.
You can pick up the System Shock remake, SS2 remaster, detective imsim Shadows of Doubt and more in a $20 bundle right now, and if you already own some of them you can trade them in for something else
News Shame about the name, though.
Here's how to watch Clair Obscur, KCD2 and others jostle for GOTY at the Golden Joystick Awards 2025
News Audentes fortuna iuvat, you know.
Mass Effect 3 redeemed to glory as modder puts its ME1-style elevator back in
News I wrote elevators in the headline for the benefit of my American brothers, but from this point on it's strictly lifts.
Russia just added Stalker dev GSC to its no-no list of 'undesirable organisations', sobs that Stalker 2 promoted 'Ukrainian narratives' and 'aggressive Russophobic content'
News The Prosecutor General's Office accuses GSC of "promoting Ukrainian narratives."
Ex-Square Enix suit says you can whine all you like, but 'Gen Z loves AI slop' and everyone and their grandma is already using it
News "The upcoming generation of gamers are Bane in Dark Knight Rises saying 'You merely adopted the slop, I was born in it.'"
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Stalker 2 has faction wars now: Enemies 'can expand control over new territories' in its 1.7 jumbo patch that also adds mega-hard mode and makes hiding in bushes meaningful
News Freedom vs Duty. No, literally.
2005 survival horror shooter ups and vanishes from Steam suspiciously soon after entering Nightdive's orbit
News Cold Fear stone-cold vanished.
Dispatch is set to hit its fantasy 'Bull case' 3-year sales target in just 3 months, and players have gone gaga for its episodic release structure
News Turns out old-fashioned TV was onto a good thing.
Before The Witcher 3 launched, CD Projekt was terrified that Batman: Arkham Knight would flatten it with its Batmobile: 'They're just gonna roll over us'
News "I still remember how bombed we were."
The Witcher 3 didn't originally make you choose between romancing Yennefer or Triss: 'This decision was made pretty late'
News The first game's sex cards were "childish," Badowski says.
CD Projekt Red was considered the 'ugly child' of CD Projekt as a whole before the first Witcher became a hit: 'They will never earn any money here'
News No longer a Botchling.
You haven't truly experienced PC gaming until you've done these 8 things
Relatable If you know, you know.
CD Projekt 'hacked time and space' to cast Charles Dance in The Witcher 3, because they needed an announcement before the countdown on their website reached zero
News Dancing on the ceiling.
Obsidian is right: I want less romance in my RPGs, actually
Love Less Let's set some realistic goals here: jokes banned by 1492 DR. Sex banned by 1498 DR. A Flaming Fist in every household by 1506 DR.
CD Projekt was worried people wouldn't really 'get' dark fantasy as a concept, and then Game of Thrones became the biggest franchise on Earth
News Paint it morally grey.
CD Projekt's co-CEO says The Witcher 2's momentous midgame choice was an 'experiment' and now regards it as a 'waste of resources'
News The developer "brought totally something new" for The Witcher 3.
CD Projekt struggled to sell partners on The Witcher 3 because its gameplay was 'pretty standard' and they didn't believe it could combine storytelling with a cinematic open world
News The wrong side of history.
CD Projekt joint CEO Adam Badowski made everyone's life miserable when he pointed out if the The Witcher 3 had water, they had to add swimming and create completely new underwater locations
News Under the sea.
'He was scared s***less': Baldur's Gate director was so panicked after playing Final Fantasy 7 that it changed the entire shape of Baldur's Gate 2 (and nearly every RPG since)
News Which, hey, fair enough.
The Elder Scrolls 6 is 'Still a long ways off' says Todd Howard, but the slyboots says the Oblivion shadowdrop was 'A test run' and a select few have already played it
News More like Tease Howard.
Larian publishing director says Steam is dominant because 'It isn't providing a s*** service defined by public shareholder KPIs,' but concedes 'A post-Gabe world is a terrifying one'
News It'll be fine, right? It'll be fine.
