Joshua Wolens

Joshua Wolens

News Writer

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.

Articles by: Joshua Wolens

The titular protagonist of adventure game Indika, surrounded by jeering nuns.

The devs of this 'freaky and grotesque' adventure game about a Russian Orthodox nun left Moscow after the invasion of Ukraine, and they're out 'to show that people and authorities are not the same thing'

By Joshua Wolens published

News The narrative of Indika's development is almost as unique as the narrative of Indika.

The player character points a pixel-shaded shotgun at a mutated townsperson in Holstin.

Holstin is a Polish survival horror game that upends everything I thought I knew about camera perspective, and the vibes are flawless

By Joshua Wolens published

News Set in a small Polish town in 1992, Holstin promises to be like nothing I've played before in more ways than one.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 29: C.E.O. of Tesla, Chief Engineer of SpaceX and C.T.O. of X Elon Musk speaks during the New York Times annual DealBook summit on November 29, 2023 in New York City. Andrew Ross Sorkin returns for the NYT summit for a day of interviews with Vice President Kamala Harris, President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-Wen, C.E.O. of Tesla, Chief Engineer of SpaceX and C.T.O. of X Elon Musk, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and leaders in business, politics and culture.

Twitter owner Elon Musk tells departing advertisers to 'Go f*** yourself' in baffling on-stage interview: 'This advertising boycott is going to kill the company… Let's see how Earth responds to that'

By Joshua Wolens published

News Musk was being interviewed as part of the New York Times' DealBook Summit.

Hyenas

Sega admits Creative Assembly's live service push happened because it was drunk on 'the favorable winds of the early Covid-19 period,' says the studio will focus on RTS games from now on

By Joshua Wolens published

News "To put it simply, Creative Assembly was good at offline games in the RTS genre."

bathtub geralt

Geralt gets out of the bathtub and onto your tabletop in new Witcher expansion for Unmatched, the board game where he can fight King Arthur and Spider-Man

By Joshua Wolens published

News Or a T-Rex, or Dr Jekyll, or the cast of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Idris Elba in Cyberpunk in snazzy jacket leaning forward

Millions of people have bought Cyberpunk 2077's Phantom Liberty expansion, and even other devs are impressed

By Joshua Wolens published

News What's really punk is a respectable attachment ratio.

Jade from Beyond Good and Evil in her remastered, 20th anniversary form.

Ubisoft accidentally releases Beyond Good and Evil remaster, remembers it doesn't do that sort of thing, attempts to scrub all trace from the internet, then gives up and announces it anyway

By Joshua Wolens published

News Someone hit a big, red Release button. How were they supposed to know what it did?

A figure clad in black stands atop a rock in the centre of a lake, with not a single other living thing in sight.

Skyrim player amasses 267,000 gold lifetime bounty after killing 'everything that was killable,' and all you can really do is tearfully salute it

By Joshua Wolens published

News In every time, in every place, the deeds of people with an open world and too much free time remain the same.

A jumble of the weirdest and worst cyber monday deals.

Take a break from deal-hunting with the most bamboozling Cyber Monday deals of 2023

By Katie Wickens published

The strangest and worst Cyber Monday deals out there.

Drop + Sennheiser HD 6XX headphones pictured side-on

This Cyber Monday Sennheiser HD 6XX deal has me seriously considering upgrading the headphones I've used for nearly a decade

By Joshua Wolens published

The Massdrop x Sennheiser HD 6XXs are comfy, airy, and temptingly well-priced.

LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 13: Hideki Kamiya, Director at Platinum Games, introduces the video game "Scalebound" during Microsoft Corp. Xbox at the Galen Center on June 13, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.

Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya says 'it would be a disaster' if he ever collaborated with Hideo Kojima or Yoko Taro: 'It doesn't work like in Dragon Ball'

By Joshua Wolens published

News No Metal Nier: Bayonetta for us.

A first-person shot from Mass Effect 1 using a first-person view mod.

No Starfield? No problem! Turn Mass Effect into the first-person space RPG of your dreams with this mod

By Joshua Wolens published

News The real Starfield was the friends we made back in 2007.

Bill from Left 4 Dead.

The reason we got Left 4 Dead 2 as a standalone game was because the first one 'was such a broken thing that nobody wanted to touch it'

By Joshua Wolens published

News The first Left 4 Dead was more delicate than it first appeared.

A shot of Steam in Big Picture Mode on a living room TV.

It's 2023 and my PC should be a better console

By Joshua Wolens published

Couch Potato The plight of the living room PC gamer is real.

Afia pointing a gun in Shadow Gambit

Mimimi's swan song is 2 same-day expansions for Shadow Gambit before the studio shuts its doors forever

By Joshua Wolens published

News The DLCs don't have names yet, but we'll undoubtedly hear more soon.

Andrezj Sapkowski.

Witcher author Andrzej Sapkowski says Netflix 'never listened' to his ideas, and as for the games 'I have no time for this'

By Joshua Wolens published

News But at least he seems good-humoured about it.

SPAIN - 2021/08/11: In this photo illustration, a Steam logo seen displayed on a smartphone and in the background. (Photo Illustration by Thiago Prudencio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

'Today is the end of Steam': Argentina and Turkey floored by new Steam price hikes as high as 2900%

By Joshua Wolens published

News Steam's new pricing policy for Latin America and the MENA region came in yesterday.

call of duty groot skin

Modern Warfare 3's loathed 'Groot' skin is getting yanked and nerfed following widespread player backlash

By Joshua Wolens published

News "In a future update, we'll disable this item until said changes can be released to all players."

Astarion, after being asked whether he'd like a kiss, winces in the opposite of anticipation in Baldur's Gate 3.

Baldur's Gate 3's hottest fix yet tackles two separate make-out scenes and promises to repair Astarion's visible disgust at kissing you

By Joshua Wolens published

News I hope patch 5 introduces sitting in a tree.

Peely from Fortnite with banana-fied Wolverine claws.

Fortnite players revolt as the game's 'Roblox-ification' with baffling age ratings stops them accessing paid cosmetics

By Joshua Wolens published

News E for exasperated.

A pixellated version of Oscar from Dark Souls as he dies in the Undead Asylum.

Dark Souls mod turns FromSoft's game into the PSP demasterpiece it was always meant to be

By Joshua Wolens published

News We are amidst strange beings in a strange land.

A convoy of strange beings proceed across a desert in Caves of Qud key art.

Hooray! You can now 'voluntarily amputate your own limbs' in the last major update before full release for the best roguelike out there

By Joshua Wolens published

News Caves of Qud's Creatures of the 7th Plague update is a big one.

Persona 3, 4 and 5's protagonists.

After Sonic raced up the box office charts, Sega wants to bring Persona and Yakuza to the big screen and Roblox too

By Joshua Wolens published

News Sega wants its series on the silver screen and the black mirror.

Lars Wingefors giving Embracer's 2023 Q2 earnings presentation.

Embracer has laid off 5% of its workforce since its $2 billion mystery deal crumbled to dust

By Joshua Wolens published

News CEO Lars Wingefors addressed shareholders in a meeting earlier today.

Three jacketed figures look down into the camera in Shadows of Doubt.

If they won't let Eidos do it, build your own Deus Ex in Shadows of Doubt's incoming modding update

By Joshua Wolens published

News Detective! There's been a mod-der!

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