
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

New Vegas modder fixes one of those glaring issues you'll never un-see once you notice it: Your pooch pal doesn't have a sneaking animation
By Joshua Wolens published
News And yes, it is adorable.

GOG owns up to its poor handling of Devotion's delisting in 2020: 'We acknowledge that this decision understandably damaged the trust our users have in us'
By Joshua Wolens published
News GOG welcomed Horses where it once cast out Devotion, and players were quick to notice.

Nightdive boss says no one's making immersive sims because they appeal to 'a very small, niche group' and tend to 'come together at the 12th hour,' even though it's obviously the best genre
By Joshua Wolens published
News We live in an unjust world.

This obsessively detailed rocket flight sim finally lets me cause historic spaceflight disasters from the comfort of my own home
By Joshua Wolens published
News Per aspera ad nowhere.

Fable is getting rid of the old games' horrible dog, who I hate
By Joshua Wolens published
News Headlines that are bound to make me popular, part one.

Valve warms up for the Steam Machine with a client update bristling with gamepad fixes and, oh, the betas UI is fancier now if you're into that
By Joshua Wolens published
News Pretty excited about this controller glyph thing, too.

After killing its multiplatform mod manager, Nexus revives its spirit with an announcement that its Windows-only app will support SteamOS in future
By Joshua Wolens published
News Which means someone else can faff with that version to make it play nicely with your Linux distro of choice.

A Baldur's Gate 3-style early access period wouldn't have done much for Deadfire, the secret best CRPG of the last decade, per its director Josh Sawyer
By Joshua Wolens published
News It must be true, I wrote it in the headline.

Fallout mega-mod maker hopes Bethesda upgrades or ditches its venerable Creation Engine soon: 'Start adding things like drivable cars, maybe even metro systems like what we built'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Team FOLON ran into some issues fitting the Big Smoke into Bethesda's engine.

Hitman's getting cross-progression as IOI limbers up for that co-op mode it announced last year
By Joshua Wolens published
News But you won't be able to import your Hitman 2 progress anymore. So, sorry to the one guy who hasn't done that yet.

Steam now lets you gift 'complete the set' bundles to your pals, including relevant discounts
By Joshua Wolens published
News Now I just need to make some friends.

Nexus Mods kills its multiplatform mod manager in favour of its Windows-only Vortex app: 'We were competing with ourselves instead of solving the actual problems'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Farewell, Nexus Mods App. We hardly knew ye.

Disney delists 14 games from Steam without warning, most notably Armed and Dangerous and that one Hercules game you vaguely remember playing in 1997
By Joshua Wolens published
News And like that, it's gone.

A Steam glitch convinced some Fallout fans a New Vegas remaster was imminent, only to have the rug yanked out from under them: 'Slowly turning into r/HalfLife'
By Joshua Wolens published
News I want to believe.

Steam has finally got rid of those goddamn clown awards
By Joshua Wolens published
Begone, and never blight my forums, reviews, or guides again.

GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software… I can't believe it!'
By Joshua Wolens published
News He's just like me, for real.

Wrestling the Steam 'Goliath,' pulling a Nightdive, and seeing off vulture capital: GOG chats the risks and opportunities of its future as a company without CD Projekt
By Joshua Wolens published
Acts of GOG GOG is an independent storefront. What now?

Palworld takes the 'red rag to a bull' approach to its Nintendo lawsuit, announces 'a 2-player competitive card game'
By Joshua Wolens published
News A card game where you fight using the monsters in your pocket. What's not to like?

Steam defies RAM-ageddon and the AI-pocalypse to smash through a new concurrent user record, and I'll see you back here in like 4 months when it somehow does it again
By Joshua Wolens published
News Unbent, unbowed, unbroken.

'I wish Wyll had gotten more content' says the Baldur's Gate 3 writer who wrote him, and splitting his story between devils and dads 'might have been a mistake in hindsight'
By Joshua Wolens published
News I like Wyll fine, but he never feels like he gets the airtime that, say, Astarion does.

9 big things Steam needs to improve in 2026
By Rory Norris published
Steam Wishlist Hey Steam, we know you don't have much competition, but there's still a lot you should do.

Larian swears off gen AI concept art tools and says 'There is not going to be any GenAI art in Divinity,' but it's still 'trying [AI] things out across departments'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Anyone else nervous?

Attacks on Kingdom Come: Deliverance for gay romance, representation 'only mattered to a handful of terminally online culture warriors,' reckons KCD2's exec producer, and probably didn't impact the games' reception
By Joshua Wolens published
News For all the noise, Martin Klíma reckons the result of KCD1 and 2's controversies was probably a whole lotta nothing.
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