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
Larian CEO has been 'reading the Reddit threads' and wants us to remove our tinfoil hats, says Wizards of the Coast isn't the reason Baldur's Gate 3 is finished
By Joshua Wolens published
News Swen Vincke says Larian just wanted to move on.
Cyberpunk 2077 quest lead says early access wouldn't work for CDPR the way it did for Larian, and the studio prefers 'to have a banging release where everything is as close to perfection as can be' like Phantom Liberty's
By Joshua Wolens published
News Paweł Sasko says CDPR's ambition's don't include a Baldur's Gate 3-style early access period.
Swen Vincke says your Baldur's Gate 3 crushes 'now belong to Wizards of the Coast' as the studio leaves D&D behind, prompting a collective nervous gulp
By Joshua Wolens published
News Things will be alright… won't they?
Larian CEO Swen Vincke accepts Baldur's Gate 3's latest award by blasting corporate 'greed' devastating devs: 'I've been fighting with publishers my whole life, and I keep on seeing the same mistakes'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Vincke joins a chorus of devs lamenting the state of the industry at this year's GDC.
Russian nun simulator Indika, my most anticipated game this year, breaks out the dancing PVC fetish men to announce its May release date
By Joshua Wolens published
News Praise be.
Broken Roads will now mix Mad Max, Disco Elysium, and Baldur's Gate in April release date after last year's out-of-the-blue 5-month delay
By Joshua Wolens published
News Broken Roads is now less broken.
CDPR wanted to split players 'in a way that's almost 50/50' with Phantom Liberty's hardest choice, and drew on the toughest decision in Witcher 2 to do it
By Joshua Wolens published
News Did you struggle to choose towards Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty's end? Then CDPR did its job.
'Big Wait's dead': Dwarf Fortress creators are going to stop disappearing for months to get updates done in a post-Kitfox world
By Joshua Wolens published
News Tarn waits for no man. Or uh, dwarf.
Crusader Kings 2 modding peaks with 'Leper Roulette,' which gives members of your dynasty a chance of winning red, black and green all at once
By Joshua Wolens published
News All hail the leper king.
5 years after it was yanked off stores, GOG's bringing underrated spy RPG Alpha Protocol in from the cold with fewer crashes and new achievements
By Joshua Wolens published
News GOG says it's part of its quest to go "back to the roots" of Good Old Games.
Larian CEO Swen Vincke extols the 'incredible achievement' of Baldur's Gate 3 influence Ultima 7, but confesses he hasn't played since the '90s 'because I don't want to spoil the memory'
By Joshua Wolens published
News You know what, Swen? I get it.
After a historically bad launch, Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection's first patch has fans cautiously optimistic: 'Faith is being restored'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Can the Battlefront Classic Collection come back to the light?
Here's how to watch the Future Games Show Spring Showcase 2024
By Joshua Wolens published
News 50 games, six world premieres, Karlach, and Italian soulslikes. What's not to love?
Dwarf Fortress creator blasts execs behind brutal industry layoffs: 'I think they're horrible… greedy, greedy people'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Tarn Adams doesn't mince words when it comes to the dire state of the games industry.
Amazon's Fallout TV director says he's not trying to please fans, legions get mad at him before realising he actually lost 'a year' of his life to Fallout 3 himself
By Joshua Wolens published
News Jonathan Nolan said trying to please any fans but themselves was a "fool's errand," not that it was a bad idea to please any fans at all.
Stellaris just announced a new major expansion that will put your dad in the Matrix
By Joshua Wolens published
News Aw geez, that's the last place I want them to put my dad.
Aspyr makes Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection statement after crashing to 'Overwhelmingly Negative' reviews, says it's working on it, doesn't apologise or explain why it needs 62.87GB of your disc space
By Joshua Wolens published
News The Battlefront Classic Collection is a bit maclunky.
Cyberpunk 2077 player stumbles across main menu easter egg hidden in plain sight, dev says 'I started to doubt you chooms will ever find it'
By Joshua Wolens published
News One more Night City secret uncovered.
RimWorld's new expansion is introducing 'IEDs that resurrect the dead,' fleshbeasts, and a 'beautiful golden cube' that you will love, or else
By Joshua Wolens published
News The usual expansion stuff.
'Probably one of the worst launches of all time': Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection players tear into Aspyr for bugs, crashes, and 3 64-player launch servers for nearly 10,000 users
By Joshua Wolens published
News The Classic Collection was meant to bring balance to Battlefront, not destroy it.
AI voice acting is changing modding, and it's killing one of the best parts of the scene: The amateur voice actor with a cheap headset mic
By Joshua Wolens published
Voice over Give me hissy, rattley, tinny audio or give me death.
Resident Evil achieves complete global saturation, sells enough copies to make it the 8th biggest country on Earth
By Joshua Wolens published
News And what a country it is.
Konami's latest Metal Gear Solid masterstroke is releasing a patch to fix MGS1's worst bug that doesn't fix it at all (Update: It works now)
By Joshua Wolens published
News Patch 1.5.0 claims to have fixed MGS 1's analogue support, but my testing says otherwise.
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