Latest articles by Joshua Wolens
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."
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2's biggest mistake is being called Bloodlines 2
Damned if you do A rose by any other name would… be quite a bit better, actually.
25 years of making history: Europa Universalis lead Johan Andersson talks grey hair, running out of ideas for DLC, and only hiring a menus guy after 3 games
Time Paradox A quarter century? Barely enough time to develop Reformed Eastern Hussars.
Danny Trejo becomes Bethesda reply guy, pops up amid the studio's Fallout anniversary fest to demand a New Vegas remaster
News The hero we need, and the hero we deserve.
Steam Next Fest gave one indie game a 51,500% increase in players—'1 week ago we had 3 players… thank you all so much'
News Which must look quite good on a line graph.
Effulgence RPG is a game made entirely of ASCII art where you convert your enemies' raw parts into new weapons, and if that doesn't convince you to give its demo a look I don't know what will
News The tragedy is I don't think I can reliably put ASCII art in this section of our CMS.
Brace yourself for yassified Homer Simpson as leaks say an entire Springfield map is headed for Fortnite
News Annoyed grunt (jacked).
Congratulations to Victoria 3 players on causing 860,000,000,000,000,000 deaths by famine in a single year, enough to depopulate Earth 107,000,000 times
News On the plus side, over a thousand anarchist Prussias.
Morrowind mega-mod Tamriel Rebuilt is adding 'one of the holy grails' that players have wanted 'for more than 20 years' in its next mammoth expansion
News Poison Song is "expected to be a matter of months away."
