Joshua Wolens

Joshua Wolens

News Writer

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

That Game of Thrones RTS is still coming, still very HBO, but no longer due out this year

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News They're checking the stables for Tyrek Lannister.

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I used videogames to solve my country's politics: Turns out the answer is ultra-mega-communism

By Joshua Wolens Published

Yes Prime Minister Someone get the government on the phone.

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Desktop Explorer is a mystery/horror game about the last time when computers were good

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News Boo.exe.

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RPG players are conditioned to think they're 'built different', says Josh Sawyer, so some of them hate it when games like Pillars of Eternity tell them they can't do something

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News To be fair, I also think I'm built different. I'm built much, much worse.

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Thief gets a mini-remaster ahead of its actual Nightdive remaster, courtesy of the GOG Preservation Program

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Lookin' spiffy, Garrett.

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George Lucas says rejecting AI is like rejecting cars in favour of horses: 'There's nothing you can do about it… it's the future'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Not sure about that one, George.

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I reckon Assassin's Creed Unity is one of the series' best, and a former Ubisoft director agrees it's 'One of the most underestimated games in the series'

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News Allons enfants de la patrie.

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Ubisoft tells Black Flag microtransaction critics that they control the DLC they buy

By Joshua Wolens Published

News I'm sure they'll be glad to hear it.

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'Valve isn't interested in a nuanced conversation' says indie dev suffering from Steam censorship

By Joshua Wolens Published

News "Valve loves it when Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldur's Gate 3 throw customizable genitals at you in the first five minutes, but of course I can't."

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This month's Humble Choice is worth a look if you like RPGs, Zelda-likes, fast-paced shooters, or violating people's civil rights

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Oh, good, I like all those things.

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Valve's magical play-Windows-games-on-Linux tech is rebased, updated, and ready to play Resident Evil

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Just like me.

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GTA Trilogy remaster boss understands fan anger but says 'a lot of people were playing them and really enjoying them'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News The remasters were, you might say, busted.

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Inde Navarrette headshot on a yellow background - Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for IMDb
Obsession star Inde Navarrette built her gaming PC just like you and me: By watching Henry Cavill do it first

By Joshua Wolens Published

News I'm basically a Hollywood star.

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John Romero commiserates with ousted id devs as around half the studio reported axed, says he hopes someone is preserving its work like he did before he left

By Joshua Wolens Published

News "I know what it feels like to leave id while id goes on."

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance star says it didn't lead to work in other games: 'The industry at large has never really given a f***'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News This is no way to treat the heir of Rattay.

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A man in peasant clothing plays the Kingdom Come: Deliverance board game.
Top scientists uncover way to make Kingdom Come: Deliverance more complicated—turn it into a board game

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Roll for gambeson.

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Former Unreal Engine director retires after 15 years at Epic

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Nicholas Penwarden joins Sjoerd De Jong at the Dunrealin' retirement home.

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Dragon Age setting creator says AI push is a delusion of the executive class that's a 'virulent plague' on games

By Joshua Wolens Published

News "Honestly, what does it help with?"

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Battlefield 6 is an FPS where 'the guy obsessed with metas is having the least fun', and it's free-to-play for a week

By Joshua Wolens Published

News What about the guy who's obsessed with Metapod?

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Russian politician says GTA 6 carries 'the stench of Americanism,' but it's not so bad because the games are all about Americans killing each other

By Joshua Wolens Published

News "Any violence in GTA is violence against a potential enemy."

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 team reminds you it's got another Kingdom Come and a Middle-earth game on the way as it tops 6,000,000 sales

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Radzig Kobyla's sword vs Anduril. It's the fight of the 15th century.

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ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' in Stop Killing Games hearing: 'We consider it piracy, we have lawsuits'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Catch me on the corner selling server.jar out of a long trenchcoat.

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With a dumpster-truck full of cash, New Vegas director Josh Sawyer would probably make a 'spiritual successor' to a crunchy 1992 RPG

By Joshua Wolens Published

News So long as he liked the team he was making it with, anyway.

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A Disco Elysium writer once told Josh Sawyer that 'we can do better than this now,' and Sawyer agrees

By Joshua Wolens Published

News "We just keep inspiring each other. It's not an animosity thing. It's just, do the best you can, [and] get inspired by other people."

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CD Projekt rebrand makes things simultaneously simpler and more confusing

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Please, CD Projekt was my father, call me and my brother CD Projekt Red.

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