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
You can pick up 5 years of Destiny 2 content at $4 per inscrutable proper noun on Humble Bundle right now
By Joshua Wolens published
News I don't know what a Lightfall, Witch Queen, Shadowkeep, Forsaken or "Light" even are in Destiny's lore, but I kind of want to buy them anyway.
Microsoft Flight Sim's free DLC finally adds what we've all wanted: giant mechanical dragonflies, decolonisation, and the chance to win a magical floating Xbox controller
By Joshua Wolens published
News I just want those things in all games, actually.
You can pick up Dead Island: Riptide free to celebrate Dead Island 2's inevitable hop to Steam
By Joshua Wolens published
News No PC videogame storefront is an island.
Deus Ex seems deader than ever as Adam Jensen actor reveals Eidos asked him years ago 'to stop talking about Adam Jensen'
By Joshua Wolens published
News A conspiracy of silence.
After years of anonymity, gaming's least famous but most recognisable voice has broken cover to chat PEGI 18, AI acting, and his €200 paycheque
By Joshua Wolens published
News You don't know Richard Wells' name, but you definitely know his voice.
The future is here whether you want it or not as AI briefly makes Nvidia the 4th most valuable corporation on Earth with a $1.83 trillion market cap
By Joshua Wolens published
News I think it's finally time to change the N in FAANG to Nvidia, rather than Netflix.
Tribes 3's Next Fest demo has me hopeful for a Tribes game that finally sticks
By Joshua Wolens published
Tribal loyalty Shazbot and all that.
Dead Cells is calling it quits 7 years after its meteoric early access release
By Joshua Wolens published
News A hell of a run.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake director would give an emphatic 'No!' if someone asked him for an FF8 remake, and FF8's original director isn't keen either
By Joshua Wolens published
News The fate of FF8 seems faint.
Diablo 2 speedrunner effortlessly trolls audience by breezily selling ultra-rare rune it's taken others 20 years to find
By Joshua Wolens published
News 35K gold! Who could be angry at that?
The world's biggest mod site pops the cork on 10 billion downloads and $7 million-worth of payouts: 'If every download were a footstep, you could walk to the Moon 11 times'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Or cover New York in pizza.
Anime more powerful than ever as Persona 3 Reload becomes the fastest selling game in Atlus' history
By Joshua Wolens published
News That's a lot of baby, baby, babies.
Palworld's latest patch stops its capture chance boosting items making capture chances worse, and prevents your breeding Pals from being sent to a farm upstate forever
By Joshua Wolens published
News Daedream's gone to sleep and he won't wake up.
Indika is a bit like an old Resident Evil with no combat but more Satan, and its freaky Next Fest demo has made it my most anticipated game this year
By Joshua Wolens published
The Devil in Me What's your Indika build plan looking like? I'm speccing hard into grief, I reckon.
Ex-Star Wars actor Gina Carano wants courts to force Lucasfilm to give her job back using Elon Musk's money, praises Twitter as 'one of the last glimmers of hope for free speech in the world'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Carano was dropped from her role in The Mandalorian in 2021.
Palworld players stumble on cunning new strat to defeat bosses in one hit: a literal 'stairway to heaven'
By Joshua Wolens published
News 'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
You can nab a trove of Cyberpunk RPG books for a few eddies on Humble Bundle right now
By Joshua Wolens published
News Preem.
Spendthrift gooners left deeply frustrated their new $3,500 Apple headsets don't support existing VR smut, damn the tech as 'worse than PSVR2'
By Joshua Wolens published
News You hate to see it.
God's own operating system continues the hurtle to oblivion as even Rockstar abandons Windows 7
By Joshua Wolens published
News Were you a good operating system? No, Windows 7, you were the best.
Atlus pinky swears that 'fans can rest assured knowing that Persona 3 Reload offers a complete experience,' so you won't be buying Persona 3 Reload: Royal years from now
By Joshua Wolens published
News But it does mean my hopes of seeing the return of the female protagonist seem dimmer than ever.
Free GOG keys for the objectively best Fallout game are on Twitch Prime right now
By Joshua Wolens published
News Everyone knows 1 is the best Fallout game. Now to take a big sip of coffee and check out the comments.
Palworld has now got a staggering 19 million players, an unstoppable rise that means it's got a bigger population than the Netherlands
By Joshua Wolens published
News But fewer Poffertjes.
The Day Before was an even bigger disaster than you thought: devs reportedly made to pay fines for bad work, learned it was an MMO from the trailers, and no one's sure where the bosses are
By Joshua Wolens published
News Less than Fntastic.