
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

The secret stand-out of Sony's State of Play was the bizarre resurrection of Deus Ex's PS2 version
By Joshua Wolens published
News You take another step forward and here it is again, like your own reflection repeated in a hall of mirrors.

Russia says it won't arrest players after seizing the studio behind the Russian World of Tanks offshoot, accusing it of funnelling funds to Ukraine
By Joshua Wolens published
News Based on, charitably, very little evidence.

Bethesda re it just released an Elder Scrolls game, announces gameplay-focused Oblivion patch that addresses about 5% of player complaints
By Joshua Wolens published
News Not gonna lie, I was hoping for more.

CDPR says the Kingdom Come style of systems-heavy RPG is 'super great' and, when it comes to The Witcher 4's direction of travel, 'these are our next steps for sure'
By Rich Stanton published
News "I love Kingdom Come because of the realism and the feeling, the sense of humor."

No Man's Sky just got another mondo update and I think it's a management game now?
By Joshua Wolens published
News You're mayor now. No, you can't refuse.

'The problem isn't necessarily the yellow paint', says the Witcher 4 design lead, but its overuse: 'People see through the smoke and mirrors'
By Harvey Randall published
News You're always being guided, you're just annoyed when you realise it.

Epic cops to the Epic Games Store sucking for the 2nd time in a month as it proudly announces its money-hose has spaffed over $2 billion
By Joshua Wolens published
News Which has been pretty good for devs, at least.

This Final Fantasy Tactics-like RPG from former Octopath and Destiny devs lets you do the best thing a videogame can: Make a town look cooler while you rebuild it
By Joshua Wolens published
News Also vanquish your foes or something, I think.

How to watch the PC Gaming Show 2025
By Joshua Wolens published
News Featuring a much higher chance of us hurting ourselves with electronics than in previous years.

We just got a look at someone actually playing The Witcher 4 as CDPR promises 'the most immersive and ambitious open world Witcher game ever'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Our witcheress is all grown up.

Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remake is such a badly kept secret it's been leaked by a statue maker who just assumed we all knew it was coming
By Joshua Wolens published
News Whoops.

'The complexity of mods we can make just shot up big time': Oblivion Remastered modders breach a new frontier even without Bethesda —making it play nice with Lua scripts
By Joshua Wolens published
News The mad lads have done it.

89-year-old Skyrim Grandma starts streaming Oblivion Remastered, has to deal with its mystifying lockpicking minigame and 'absolutely ugly movement' just like we did in 2006
By Joshua Wolens published
News It's not an age thing, grandma. It doesn't make sense to most of us either.

Elden Ring Nightreign is immediately FromSoft's worst-reviewed game on Steam: 'This is not the Elden Ring you are looking for'
By Joshua Wolens published
news Bold of you to assume I have friends, From.

Hot off making the biggest city in any Elder Scrolls game, Tamriel Rebuilt is already eyeing one 'Twice the size'
By Joshua Wolens published
News The mad lads are gonna do it.

A game claiming the backing of Russia's military just popped up on Steam: 'I understand Ukrainian players don't like us'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Many are calling for Squad 22: ZOV to be pulled from Steam.

Morrowind's new city from Tamriel Rebuilt is 'Bigger than any playable Elder Scrolls city in general,' and a single hero made its exterior
By Joshua Wolens published
News Putting the 'labour' in labour of love.

Former BioWare lead writer says the best level in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines gave him 'ammunition' to argue that story can be just as engaging as combat
By Joshua Wolens published
News Especially spooky stories.

Yuri Lowenthal spills the beans on a Persona 4 remake by announcing that Atlus doesn't want him in it: 'Maybe I even begged, but they don’t want me to come back'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Which is probably not what Sega PR had in mind.

Massive Morrowind mod Tamriel Rebuilt couldn't be less worried about Bethesda going for an Oblivion-style remaster: 'Modernising Morrowind would just ruin the game entirely'
By Joshua Wolens published
News And by god, they're right.

Ex-Dragon Age lead hopes Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 pulls an 'Expedition 33 or Baldur's Gate 3' by leaning into the combat-light, roleplaying-heavy gameplay of the tabletop version
By Joshua Wolens published
News Which sounds alright to me, but maybe isn't quite what we're getting.

Assassin's Creed Shadows has Dead By Daylight content in it now for reasons fathomless to man
By Joshua Wolens published
News I guess you do kill a lot of people in daylight.

Dulcet-voiced Sony tech god Mark Cerny is better than you at Balatro, s the 0.1% of players to platinum the whole game
By Joshua Wolens published
News Who's this Joker?

Dragon Age creator says EA execs thought BioWare fans would eat whatever slop they were given since 'the nerds in the cave would always show up for an RPG, because it was an RPG'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Which worked out very well.

CD Projekt Red reflects on its hubris following The Witcher 3's success, and how that led to Cyberpunk 2077's problems: 'I think that was the beginning of a bit of magical thinking for the company'
By Jody Macgregor published
News CD Projekt Red went from being an underdog to the biggest deal around, and that had consequences.
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