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
Casper Van Dien says Helldivers 2 may be 'a good tribute' but now he's Johnny Rico again, and Starship Troopers fans better 'come in here and help us kill some damn bugs—Yeah!'
By Rich Stanton published
news "This is what I'd be playing anyhow, because this is my world."
Rise of the Golden Idol goes full Columbo as it transports the first game's 18th-century murder solving to the 1970s
By Joshua Wolens published
PCGS Formica, disco, and death.
Sumerian Six is a WW2 stealth tactics game that summons up all my childhood memories of Desperados and Commandos, and also summons up literal demons
By Joshua Wolens published
PCGS You gotta take the good with the bad.
Sneak past, shoot through, or throw rats at your foes in Fallen Aces, a bloody and creative FPS that is coming out next week
By Joshua Wolens published
PCGS Whiskey and stogy optional but encouraged.
The official Starship Troopers co-op shooter has a full release date, Casper Van Dien, and a miraculous-sounding corpse pile-up system: 'No other game has been able to achieve persistent death at the scale we're doing'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Starship Troopers: Extermination leaves early access this October.
An FPS series that dominated Chinese net cafes in the '90s is being revived: I tried it, and wound up breaking all the bones in my character's body
By Joshua Wolens published
Let's Delta Delta Force: Hawk Ops is a new entry in a series that last surfaced in 2009.
This anti-meat industry horror game was inspired by the death of the dev's pet chicken, and it's basically Abe's Oddysee plus Resident Evil but you're poultry
By Joshua Wolens published
News I'm hoping vegano-horror becomes a whole genre.
Frostpunk's lead designer was 'dumbstruck' at the insanely difficult self-imposed challenges players managed in the brutal settlement sim: 'I was like, that's not possible'
By Ted Litchfield published
news "And there's a group of people who really enjoy playing like that."
The Sony State of Play 'open-world dress-up adventure' game and the RPG where you carry a child on your back are both headed for PC
By Joshua Wolens published
News I am going to look amazing.
Frostpunk devs say they're not out to make 'depression simulators' despite all the death and child labour: 'There always has to be a good way out'
By Joshua Wolens published
News So it's just my cities that are like that, then?
In Frostpunk 2's post-post-apocalypse 'it's not nature that's your worst enemy, it's human nature,' and nothing proves that like my doomed attempt at turbo-communism
By Joshua Wolens published
Red and Blue You've got nothing to lose but your chains. Oh, and the coal. You could definitely also lose the coal.
I took my alternate-universe self on a pierogi date in the Subnautica-style survival game from This War of Mine's creators, and now I can't wait to see more
By Joshua Wolens published
Alter Egomania The many strange layers of The Alters has suddenly made it one of the game's I'm most interested in this year.
Starving Heroes of Might & Magic fans finally eat as spiritual successor Songs of Conquest leaves its 2-year early access behind
By Joshua Wolens published
News When the HoMM you have at home is actually better.
Bethesda won't make a game as cool as Morrowind ever again, so thank god an original dev has come back 20 years on to make quest mods for it
By Joshua Wolens published
News Douglas Goodall has returned to the game he helped make with a bunch of mods.
The Taskmaster VR game is out in a few weeks, and Little Alex Horne is resigned to what his avatar can expect from you sickos: 'They will definitely do things to me'
By Joshua Wolens published
News But he's at least pretty sure you can't strip him like they do in the show.
One of Star Wars' most baffling post-Lucas edits is becoming an ability card in an official TCG
By Joshua Wolens published
News A clunky edit, you might say.
Former Bungie composer reckons he can enter Congress against impossible odds no problem because it'll be 'a walk in the park compared to making Halo 2'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Marty O'Donnell says what's happening in Congress is "like a walk in the park compared to making Halo 2."
Modding and warfare peak with mod that imposes 1% chance of a Five Nights at Freddy's jumpscare in WW2 strategy sim Hearts of Iron 4
By Joshua Wolens published
News Armed for bear.
Helldivers 2 has sold over 12 million copies, making it the fastest-selling PlayStation game ever: 'There are more Helldivers than there are Swedes'
By Joshua Wolens published
News This is democracy manifest.
The first patch for Bethesda's busted Fallout 4 next gen update leaves its biggest problems intact, and you're still better off downgrading the game
By Joshua Wolens published
News Rebuilding civilisation, one patch at a time.
Brace yourself, EA is thinking real hard about inserting ads into its videogames
By Joshua Wolens published
News CEO Andrew Wilson was asked about in-game ads in a recent earnings call.
Former Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider pours scorn on EA's AI dreams: 'What they took as excitement was really a veiled wail of despair'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Gaider remembers how excited execs were for live service games like Anthem, and reckons they're just repeating a pattern.
Fallout 3, the objectively 5th-best Fallout game, is free to keep via Prime Gaming right now
By Joshua Wolens published
News My scientific ranking of the Fallouts in the guise of PSA posts continues.
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