Latest articles by Joshua Wolens
If you loved Baldur's Gate 3 then you probably shouldn't pick up this $10 bundle of incredibly crusty D&D games, but if you're cool you should
News I don't make the rules.
Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader dev Owlcat comes out swinging in support of Stop Killing Games: 'Every player deserves lasting access to what they’ve paid for'
News Which, in fairness, is pretty easy for an old-school CRPG dev to say.
Assassin's Creed Shadows has its summer roadmap and, with all due respect, how did it take this long to get a fast-forward time option?
News The greatest tool of the shinobi is the nap.
Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam
News It's not a great precedent, that's for sure.
A mere 8 years on, Assassin's Creed is bringing 'power and violence and sex and greed and vengeance' to Netflix as a TV show
News Put me in the animus to see what my ancestors thought about the Assassin's Creed TV show announcements from their lifetimes.
Nintendo's found its Zelda and Link for the upcoming movie—and British soap opera Emmerdale finally gets the silver screen recognition it deserves
News What will Marion and Chas Dingle make of this (I googled the characters in Emmerdale)?
Steam will let you reverse your last 7 days of CS2 (and soon other) trades if you accidentally swap your $10,000 AK-47 for some magic beans
News I hope you kept the receipt.
Steam's got a new rule that puts the kibosh on 'certain kinds of adult only content' that make Visa and Mastercard sad
News The new rule seemingly coincided with a large number of adult games being delisted from the platform.
Microsoft's 200 laid-off King devs are reportedly being replaced by AI they helped build, while its 'absolute 's***show' HR department looks away and whistles
News Morale is, predictably, "in the gutter."
'I think Todd in particular gravitates not towards the weird stuff': Skyrim's co-lead and Morrowind 'torchbearer' says Elder Scrolls 6 will probably be pretty normcore
News I feel a great disturbance, as if a million Morroboomers cried out in anguish and were suddenly silenced.
Oblivion Remastered's latest patch stealthily fixed the most lore-breaking door in videogames
News Finally, I can sleep at night.
Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream review—Beautiful Scandinavian stealth that's too strict for its own good
Sandi Snake And who's Erik, anyway?
Stalker Trilogy fixes the issue that made me melt my PC with infinite quicksaves and repairs the blurry textures that have blighted players for months
News Nicely done, GSC.
It's time to sort your life out and marathon the finest WW2 real-time tactics games of the early '00s—and for a mere $10, too
News Well, early '00s and late '90s.
Modder behind the 'Swiss army knife of PC gaming' deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: 'By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope'
News "You no longer have the liberty of buying a game from wherever you want."
Sci-fi horror game Routine just came back to life for the 2nd time in 13 years: 'We are beginning to approach the finish line'
News Also, Mick Gordon left.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was a depression-fest because its writer is 'from Poland and people in Poland are sad. They are born sad, they die sad, so I just wanted to make the whole world sad'
News This is also why all English media is stultifyingly dull.
Chinese FMV game about getting 'revenge on gold diggers' plunges the country into online gender tumult
News Pretty much like we do on the anglophone internet all the time.
Baldur's Gate 3 actor Samantha Béart says people don't realise how awful Karlach was before the events of the game: 'I think she was a piece of work in hell'
News Béart says they imagine Karlach as someone who was forced to do awful things to survive in a kind of interplanar supermax prison.
Valve's reported profit-per-head from Steam commissions is out there, and at $3.5 million per employee it makes Apple and Facebook look like a lemonade stand
News No wonder Gabe Newell can afford all those boats.
Open-source Morrowind project just got an update 3 years in the making that might have me saying bye to the vanilla game for good—oh, and you can load Skyrim in it now
News Sure, why not.
Brace yourself: Hades 2 just got what 'will likely be our final patch' before full release
News
As fans lose it over sanitised nudity and violence, Ready or Not devs promise they haven't changed their 'creative vision': 'We’ve only made changes where absolutely required'
News It didn't help.
2023's true GOTY has had its name and assets jacked by 'some kind of crypto scam,' while bootlickers assure the dev it's actually great publicity
News Stonks-9800 deserves better than this.
Deus Ex devs say they weren't trying to make a statement when they made one of the most political games of all time: 'What I think is the right future for humanity is irrelevant. It's all about what each player thinks'
News A cabal of billionaires unleashing an artificial plague to further immiserate and exploit the underclass, but not in a political way.
