
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

I turn my back for one second and now Assassin's Creed Shadows has Critical Role in it
By Joshua Wolens published
News Those guys are everywhere.

Who needs Bethesda? Oblivion Remastered modders have cooked up FO4-style settlement placing even without official support
By Joshua Wolens published
News If you build it, they will come.

Türkiye's answer to Disco Elysium just broke cover, featuring more lawyers, fewer cops, an indeterminate amount of communism and twin fistfuls of guilt and regret
By Joshua Wolens published
News Pera Coda swaps Revachol for Istanbul, but don't worry: there's still plenty of anguish.

System Shock 2's remaster is delayed for everyone but you and me
By Joshua Wolens published
News Call an ambulance. But not for me.

Mario Kart 64 has a native PC port now thanks to the mad lads even Nintendo can't stop, who also ported Zelda and Star Fox
By Joshua Wolens published
News Harbour Masters have done it again.

Cyberpunk 2077's surprise 2.3 patch gets a surprise delay as CDPR needs some time to aim 'for a scope similar to Update 2.2'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Hey, take all the time you need.

Xbox emulator devs shoot down rumours they're in cahoots with Microsoft to bring Xbox games to PC: 'What f****** AI ChatGPT stuff have you been reading?'
By Joshua Wolens published
News "Xenia continues to be a community-run effort that encourages and enforces legal emulation practices."

GOG says it won't repeat its ill-fated Daggerfall GOG Cut with its new one-click modding program, not least because it can send more than one message a day to modders now
By Joshua Wolens published
news GOG won't be assuming personal responsibility over updates this time round.

Oblivion's dungeons suck, Skyblivion is making them better: 'That's where the power of a proper remake comes from'
By Joshua Wolens published
news "We still have something to offer in that we have more or less redesigned every aspect of the game."

North Korea's only Steam user disappeared yesterday, but not to worry: They're back and gaming harder than ever
By Joshua Wolens published
News Probably ragequit a CS match. Been there, man.

RuneScape player pulls off a personal Shawshank Redemption: Grinds his way out of one-zone house arrest by grinding a raid 2,000 times over 10,000 hours: 'It was all worth it'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Makes the Moon landing look like a walk in the park.

Dark day for humanity as Gex Trilogy achieves 'huge success,' patches in its cursed EU voices from Red Dwarf's Cat and the 'Ding dong' guy
By Joshua Wolens published
News Or Danny John-Jules and Leslie Philips, if you're a connoisseur.

Steam turbo-charges its performance overlay, shows you how many real and framegen frames you're getting and, oh, Proton is enabled on Linux by default now
By Joshua Wolens published
News A buffet of stats awaits.

Stellar Blade sold a million units in 3 days on PC and you can mostly thank Chinese players
By Joshua Wolens published
News Stellar results.

Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital: 'The new owners are here… not sitting in a distant tower, remotely directing us all towards some nefarious goals'
By Joshua Wolens published
News "We won’t compromise on what’s made Nexus Mods special."

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is getting a 'cinematic cut' premiering at a Czech film festival: 'A proud moment for games as a serious storytelling medium'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Which, okay.

The Communist Manifesto – A Visual Novel review: No better than reading the book, but at least it lets you platinum Karl Marx
By Joshua Wolens published
Half Marx Choose your class.

Both Stellar Blade and Dune: Awakening shot into Steam's top 100 with new concurrent player peaks yesterday
By Joshua Wolens published
You know what they say: sand sells.

John Marston's actor has 'Exciting news' he's forbidden to tell us, and he practically has steam coming out of his ears trying not to spill the beans
By Joshua Wolens published
News What could it be?

Gooner game of the year Stellar Blade's mods are 41% smut, ensuring gamers will never see the light of heaven
By Joshua Wolens published
News It is, apparently, always possible for there to be less clothing.

'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events
By Joshua Wolens published
Jon Bellamy claimed the choice to dramatically curtail pride was to prevent backlash. That's caused an even bigger backlash.

Valve does its homework the night before deadline: Switches Steam to run on Mac chips right as Apple announces it's ditching Intel for good
By Joshua Wolens published
News Incredible news if you are A) Me B) One of like three other people on Earth.
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