
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

Here's how to watch all the announcements and world premieres at the Future Games Show at Gamescom 2025
By Joshua Wolens published
News I think it's cheating that you can see all this stuff without wading through a sea of gamers, personally.

Randy Pitchford says Borderlands 4's story is inspired by the sale of Gearbox, then glazes over and says it's about where we as individuals want to be on the spectrum of anarchy to fascism
By Joshua Wolens published
News Which is just what I expect from the series with the pooping robot.

Konami fumbles the ball ahead of MGS Delta's release, says the Fox Hunt multiplayer mode won't have crossplay with zero explanation
By Joshua Wolens published
News For fox sake.

He once said playing Metal Gear Solid 5 would be '60 hours of humiliation,' but Snake actor David Hayter finally played the game: 'All is forgiven'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Also, apparently Kiefer Sutherland is a good time.

Stalker 2 says to hell with it, let's just update our entire Unreal Engine implementation in new roadmap for the rest of the year
By Joshua Wolens published
News The Zone is getting a 5.5.4 makeover, with devs whispering they might even take a look at UE5.6.

Mafia: The Old Country review—A failed experiment and a bitter disappointment
By Joshua Wolens published
Cosa No-Sir In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns, but less dangerous than knives.

It's 2025 and saving in absolutely every game still sucks
By Joshua Wolens published
Gripes Week This is definitely the number one thing to get mad about right now.

GTA publisher boss says he's 'running scared' despite billions in the bank and a GTA 6-sized financial nuke on the horizon: 'We are looking over our shoulders'
By Joshua Wolens published
News To be fair, I am also terrified of Roblox.

Habbo Hotel survives years of 4chan raids to declare it's still alive for a 25th-anniversary jamboree
By Joshua Wolens published
News And then it goes and spoils it all by saying something stupid like "blockchain."

Battlefield 6's open beta is already the most popular Battlefield of all time on Steam, and the platform's 44th most-played game ever
By Joshua Wolens published
News Pour one out for the helicopters.

I'm sick to death of PC gaming's endless launchers
By Joshua Wolens published
Failure to launch This is my launcher. It launches the launcher that launches the launcher that launches my game.

You probably have like $100 in Steam trading cards on all those games you've never played, and you can get it without ever actually launching them
By Joshua Wolens published
Idle Hands We're all just workers on Gaben's farm.

Gabe Newell acquires yacht company building the $400 million ocean-fortress he'll pick up later this year, because he 'respects the sea'
By Joshua Wolens published
News I respect the sea. Where's my yacht company?

Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag actor says Ubisoft threatened to sue him for blabbing about the remake that everyone and their grandma knows is coming
By Joshua Wolens published
Everything is permitted. Not that, though.

Thank god: Battlefield 6 won't make you use the EA App on Steam (but it will if you're on Epic)
By Joshua Wolens published
News The evil is defeated. On the one platform, anyway.

Baldur's Gate 3 fixes Astarion looking like your granddad on Facetime and Dark Urge forgetting they have amnesia with a 'room temperature fix'
By Joshua Wolens published
News No, no, lift the camera up slightly. No, up.

Hideo Kojima says he won't play the MGS 3 remake, mentions he knows loads of ways to kill people, doesn't elaborate, leaves
By Joshua Wolens published
News He remembers the basics of CQC.

Steam has a razzle-dazzle new video player that's actually usable, but press F for the unlucky Valve employees who had to re-encode all 400,000+ trailers on the platform
By Joshua Wolens published
News Unnamed heroes, all.

PC's sky-high growth has carried Japan's games market on its back for 7 years, but the forecast is it's set to slow down
By Joshua Wolens published
News Hey, look, I didn't do it.

Oblivion Remastered lets you shatter whole buildings like Fabergé eggs with mod that resurrects spirit of Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
By Joshua Wolens published
News Take that, society.

'We're not making GTA': Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is channeling the best part of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided—a dense hub instead of a huge open world
By Joshua Wolens published
News Oh no, those are all my keywords.

It's a golden age for weird Eastern European games—you can tell because I'm in love with a horror puzzler about 2 old men trying to find evil in the woods
By Joshua Wolens published
News One-Eyed Likho feels like a Russian cinematographer tried to make a horror film in 1909.

Judge sends ChatGPT-using lawyer to AI school with $5,500 fine after he's caught creating imaginary caselaw: 'Any lawyer unaware that using generative AI platforms to do legal research is playing with fire is living in a cloud'
By Joshua Wolens published
News A prompt verdict.
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