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
EA's surprise megadump of classic Command & Conquer games means Europe's March game sales were dominated by 25-year-old RTSes, beating WWE 2K24 and Nintendo
By Joshua Wolens published
News And rightly so.
One of the most strange and cruel survival sandboxes I've played has sold 2.3 million copies
By Joshua Wolens published
News Kenshi is more popular than I would have guessed.
I can't make it 10 minutes in this free browser-based New York Times Sim without getting fired for commie agitprop
By Joshua Wolens published
News Newspaper of record time-to-firing.
Star Trek: Infinite reviews crater as Paradox announces it's dead, Jim
By Joshua Wolens published
News The company's stability crisis continues.
Palworld tactical genius melts through the 294,000 HP of its new raid boss in seconds by spamming a frame rate-destroying platoon of dragons
By Joshua Wolens published
News There's no power like firepower.
Surprise! Amazon's putting out the Fallout TV show a day early as a 'thank you' to fans, and a second season seems guaranteed
By Joshua Wolens published
News What in the goddamn…?
TF2 voice cast reunites to LARP their way through a beautiful recreation of 2009's Meet the Sniper video
By Joshua Wolens published
News I hope they keep making these forever.
Acclaimed indie studio Vlambeer springs back to life 4 years after declaring 'the end of Vlambeer'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Can't keep a good Vlam down.
10 years on, leaks have given us a long look at the canned Batman game that became Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
By Joshua Wolens published
News And boy, does it look like an Arkham game.
Forget Helldivers, the viral hit that's swallowing all my time is this free browser game about stopping the Nazis from coming to power
By Joshua Wolens published
News Or just plunging Germany into civil war, if you're me.
Cuba's 'first major indie game' is a gorgeous platformer about bad decisions and environmental catastrophe, so long as you can get over the checkpoints
By Joshua Wolens published
Savior It Saviorless hit PC this week after a very long development period.
Warner Bros follows up Matrix movie about capitalism annihilating culture in pursuit of profit by announcing a fifth Matrix movie
By Joshua Wolens published
News Somewhere, Guy Debord is punching his way out of a coffin.
With 800,000 copies of Dwarf Fortress sold, the newly minted millionaire creators' most high-roller purchase has been a Honda Civic
By Joshua Wolens published
News The game's premium version can be found on over a million wishlists, too.
XCOM's greatest DLC was almost a Battletech-style mech expansion before the game's camera scuppered it all: 'Our camera angle is not meant for 30 foot mechs, apparently'
By Joshua Wolens published
News But what we got was one of my favourite expansions ever, so no harm done.
Somehow, KOTOR returned: Saber boss finally comes out and says 'it's obvious we're working on this' after chaos at Embracer and that the remake is 'alive and well'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Never tell me the odds.
PC Gamer is hiring! We're looking for a top-notch video producer to join us in the UK
By Joshua Wolens published
Jobs We're after a video virtuoso to join us in our Bath, UK office.
Skyrim mods fix its most glaring realism error: Your disturbingly immortal food
By Joshua Wolens published
News Does this mean I can make stilton?
Putin's ordered his government to look into creating Russia's own Steam Deck, SteamOS, and basically Steam itself
By Dave James published
news Essentially boils down to: "Make me my own Valve."
240 jobs gone and Relic sold off as Sega reckons with the hangover of 'the favorable winds of the early Covid-19 period'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Sega promised "structural reforms" after scrapping Hyenas last year, and now we know what those look like.
Arrowhead implores Helldivers 2 players to temporarily stop using its most destructive weapon yet: Snowballs
By Joshua Wolens published
News Chucking snowballs keeps crashing people's games, which is both inconvenient and undemocratic.
Baldur's Gate 3's latest hotfix declares 'No more free lunches' as it stops you bamboozling merchants with boxes, confusingly also makes it easier to literally give people free lunches
By Joshua Wolens published
News Much to think about.
Baldur's Gate 3 has at least 24 ways Shadowheart can hurl the main MacGuffin at you as part of Larian's New Vegas-Style 'n+1' system for players who ignore the plot: 'It might be even more'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Ever done a "kill everything" run of a sprawling RPG? This one's for you.
As BioShock successor Judas preps for release, I finally understand what its 'narrative Legos' are
By Joshua Wolens published
News But, like Thomas, I have my doubts.
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