
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

Blizzard says it's open to even more Diablo 2 expansions and reworks unless people get really mad at it about this one: 'We're going to have to see what the players say'
By Joshua Wolens published
News It's been burnt before, you know.

Fallout's co-creator again recalls nixing 'Terminator-style' robots in the original game, which has me rubbing my chin real hard at Fallout 4's entire plot: 'Mr Handy and Terminator robot do not belong in the same universe'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Talking raccoons also do not belong there, it turns out.

Yakuza Kiwami 3 is where 'The Kiwami line will come to an end,' which might be for the best given how badly it's been handled
By Joshua Wolens published
News Kiwami 3 has been welcomed to the world by a whole lot of upset fans.

After 21 years, Serious Sam 2 gets Steam achievements (and a new patch)
By Joshua Wolens published
News Sam now 20% more serious.

Fallout's Aaron Moten 'forbid' himself from playing the games, leaving Ella Purnell as the only show lead who's actually rolled a character in the Wasteland
By Joshua Wolens published
News Ella Purnell Fallout 1 stream when.

I was the Bernie Madoff of speculative baby trading until my prize infant gargled horse tranquiliser and died
By Joshua Wolens published
News Stupid, selfish babies.

Here's playable mahjong in Morrowind, boss, just like you ordered
By Joshua Wolens published
News I taught myself Caravan in New Vegas. I can learn this.

'It took about 5 years' for people to start liking Fallout: New Vegas, says Josh Sawyer, and even longer for Obsidian to see that 'players actually liked the design choices we had made'
By Harvey Randall published
News Hindsight has about a 20% chance of scoring a headshot in VATS.

I am once again tapping my 'Todd Howard genuinely loves Fallout' sign: He's an OG Fallout 1 fan and still hasn't given back the disc he nicked from his brother
By Joshua Wolens published
News "The rules of the world and the vibe of the world, they were just brilliant and so unique."

Steam now lets early access devs show a 1.0 release date, then says eh, maybe leave it blank: 'Just because this feature exists, does not mean you should or must use it'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Ask if you should, not if you could. Can. Could.

You think you know Baldur's Gate 3, but you're not getting 10/10 on our exhaustive quiz about its many wonderful gnomes
By Joshua Wolens published
Gnome way! You're just not.

Steam Proton will no longer forget the entire reason it exists if you have a humungous library, as of the most recent client beta
By Joshua Wolens published
News To be fair, I also forget why I exist sometimes.

Larian lead has a little 'crash out on main' over Baldur's Gate 3 show announce, but big boss Swen Vincke says HBO is in touch about the writing, so now I don't know what to think
By Joshua Wolens published
News You mean I have to wait for the show to exist before deciding whether it's good or not?

Take-Two CEO says you can trust that GTA 6 release date because they've spent, like, so much money on marketing in the run-up to it, and they're 'Not selling hamburgers' here
By Joshua Wolens published
News No free hamburgers with GTA 6. You heard it here first.

Management sim Manifesto is the first game ever without politics: Grind workers into dust under your bootheel in a carefree romp that is 'definitely not about the video game industry… stop reading into things that aren't there'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Finally, a simple good time with no message at all.

Epic says I can change baby, I promise, as it returns for its now-annual tradition of admitting its launcher 'sucks'
By Joshua Wolens published
News I can fix her (she is a videogames client).

Pack it up, Game Freak: Modder turns RDR2 into the best Pokémon game since Ruby, complete with catching wild beasts and trainer battles
By Joshua Wolens published
News Just like Rockstar originally envisioned.

Skyrim lead designer's biggest lore regret is *checks notes* one of the coolest things the series has ever done
By Joshua Wolens published
News You have no idea how upset I am.

Darren Aronofsky wages war on art with his new AI-generated American Revolution drama series, presented by Salesforce
By Joshua Wolens published
News Look at what we've done with the world.

Psst, hey, Fallout season 1 is going free on YouTube until they yank it all back down in February
By Joshua Wolens published
Keep it under your hat. Or not. Actually, it's fine.

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 left a gaping, $28 million hole in Paradox's year-end financial report
By Joshua Wolens published
News You win some, you lose millions.

Ubisoft is now memeing about Black Flag remake leaks, which is a change from threatening to sue its lead actor over them
By Joshua Wolens published
News I guess this is better.

Here's when Code Vein 2 launches in your timezone
By Joshua Wolens published
Launch times Unlimited anime.
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