Latest articles by Joshua Wolens
CD Projekt Red tells Rockstar not to make the same mistake it did—posts a self-burn over Cyberpunk 2077's historically bad launch to support GTA 6's delay
News A wise man learns from his mistakes. Even wiser ones learn from other people's.
The objectively 13th best game you can play right now is free to play until November 10, so you're officially out of excuses buddy
News Unless you're playing game #1 through #12, in which case fair enough.
Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser wanted to kill Niko Bellic at the end of GTA 4, and only stayed his hand because the studio was 'Full of fear' and the game didn't quite work with it
News So he just traumatised us a few years later, instead.
'All you had to do was follow the damn law, Rockstar!': Workers are protesting outside Take-Two after GTA 6 dev's alleged 'brazen' union-busting
News "They can get used to seeing us on their doorstep."
Kingdom Come: Deliverance lead says Obsidian should use its Microsoft fortune to make games more like Kingdom Come: Deliverance—'Give me something more than... level grinding in a static scripted world'
News Obsidian's streamlined approach to its recent RPGs doesn't resonate with everyone.
Bethesda just can't help itself: It's gearing up to break some Fallout 4 mods one last time for the road—but at least it's just the main menu ones this time
News And as much as I poke fun, it has a better reason than it did for the next-gen patch.
British MPs are comparing one another to Cliff Bleszinski's dead live-service FPS LawBreakers to score points as videogame debate comes to UK Parliament
News Words hurt, you know.
EA pinky promises to 'maintain creative control' in its post-buyout era, but the list of 'cultural values' it plans to keep doesn't mean much at all
News Though I suspect the new owners care a lot more about money than anything else.
The Golden Joystick Awards has published its shortlist of 12 games that could take home its Ultimate Game of the Year trophy, and voting's open now
News You've got until November 7 to make your opinion known.
Here are the Europa Universalis 5 unlock times for your region
History Repeats You have a world to win.
After the Saudi-backed EA buyout, OG Sims director says diversity isn't just 'critical,' it's 'existential for the business': 'Love is love and people are people'
News Charles London worked on The Sims 1 and 2.
Saints Row 1's director is pitching a prequel that gets 'back to the roots of what made SR 1 entertaining,' but I mostly want to know what became of the Saints Row 2 PC patch whose developer died
Could a new buzz of Saints Row interest bring back the SR2 PC patch? Well, probably not, but let me live with this hope for a while.
Cyberpunk creator says 'Contact me' after Keanu Reeves said he wants to be Johnny Silverhand again, then tries his luck and tells Scarlett Johansson, 'I have roles for you. You can do anything'
We're quickly approaching Kojima levels of celeb-collecting.
Deus Ex's OG art director has seen the remaster: 'Oh, what the f***, No. This did not need to happen'
News Jerry O'Flaherty speaks for many.
Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says game prices 'have resisted matching inflation' because publishers have been pocketing the 'cost savings' from digital distribution
News I always knew it was a capitalist plot.
New World's purchase option on Steam was removed 'unintentionally,' Amazon says, and now it's back
News I'm not sure how you do something like that by accident, but that's apparently what happened.
Magical Randy Pitchford summons the ghost of games discourse past, says games 'Haven't even had our Citizen Kane yet'
News The Citizen Kane of gaming is, of course, Croc: Legend of the Gobbos.
After OG dev blasted the Halo remake, the 'father of Master Chief' says he thinks it looks just swell, actually: 'Gorgeous in a way I wish we could have built it'
News I'm gonna need a poll of original Halo devs to tell me what to think once and for all, here.
Modders have already patched fast travel into Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, and they might even be able to make its linear detective segments skippable for replays
News Teleportation is probably an elder power, right?
A Polish LARP event will let you live out Frostpunk in real life for a few hundred euros: 'Drag injured teammates through volcanic fumes… comfort the dying while your own fingers go numb'
News A fun time for the whole family.
Europa Universalis lead says design documents stifle creativity: 'You end up with a bunch of idea guys who write all the documents and the rest are there to follow'
News Johan Andersson's team at Paradox used to lean on the practice more, but Andersson said he "doesn't believe" in it these days.
Europa Universalis 2's launch was a desperate gambit for Paradox's survival: 'It needs to be done so it's sold in the US market before Christmas, because we need the money else we cannot pay people'
News The grand strategy giant had a hard time making its name.
Before Paradox became king of grand strategy, it made a Baldur's Gate-inspired RPG doomed by 'bugs, many and diverse, some more interesting than the gameplay'
News Gamespot called Valhalla Chronicles "an insult to anyone who can walk and chew gum at the same time."
Europa Universalis lead Johan Andersson says Paradox's DLC model has been 'pretty f***ing great': 'You decide what's going in, you decide the scope, you decide exactly when you can release'
News Andersson said Paradox has several pipelines for keeping games "alive," and that it's a "pretty great system."
