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

TennoCon 2025 sold through all 3,000 tickets in about 30 minutes, presumably off the back of massive demand for last year's customisable mums
By Joshua Wolens published
News 1, 2, 3, 4, hello operator.

The best way to play Diablo 1 on pretty much anything just got an update for a 20-year-old Apple OS that runs on a dead chipset, one lunatic somewhere presumably rejoices
By Joshua Wolens published
News Hell yeah.

I spent too long playing the Cyberpunk 2077 mod that turns V's hands into feet, and now I genuinely think it's what's great about PC gaming
By Joshua Wolens published
🦶 Hear me out.

Vanished for a year, early access dev returns to announce a crisis taught them 'videogames ain't it' and end development on 'singleplayer EVE' they've been making since 2017
By Joshua Wolens published
News Astrox Imperium ended gradually, then all at once.

ZA/UM gets away with $165 plastic bags because its execs know hypocritical moaners are the same 'ones ordering the expensive items' anyway, says former Disco Elysium writer
By Joshua Wolens published
News I'd write a strapline here, but the postman's arrived with my bag.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 dev says it deliberately avoids the 'instant gratification' of modern games, channelling the best of Bethesda like Morrowind and Oblivion
By Joshua Wolens published
News All my keywords.

After 75 hours, I finally cracked what I was doing wrong in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's terribly explained alchemy system
By Joshua Wolens published
News It's all about the bellows.

Steam now warns you if that early access game you're eyeing up has been abandoned by its devs
By Joshua Wolens published
News But there might be some kinks to work out.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 rockets past the first game's peak player count as it pips into Steam's top 100 most-played games
By Joshua Wolens published
News Czech the numbers.

Dune: Awakening says no to David Lynch and Sting in his underwear: 'The vision for the IP right now is the Villeneuve vision'
By Rich Stanton published
News Come on, the Stillsuit designs were great!

8 Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 tips that will help you become Bohemia's next top knight
By Fraser Brown published
Knight school Start your medieval misadventure the right way.

Nothing says 'communism' like this $165 poverty-chic plastic bag based on Disco Elysium, aka 'the level of greed that they talk about in the Bible'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Walter Benjamin once said: fascism is the aestheticization of politics, but communism is an expensive bag for life.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 launch times and release date
By Joshua Wolens published
Launch times Here are the official release times for KCD2, m'lord.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 review: A brilliant Bohemian rhapsody
By Joshua Wolens published
Czech Up KCD2 is just as bizarre and ambitious as its inspirations. Thank god.

There's a whole world of MMOs you probably don't know about, and the best way to play them just got basically its own Steam Workshop
By Joshua Wolens published
News GO WEST.

The official Assassin's Creed Shadows artbook just got leaked on a hentai site before someone snatched it back down
By Joshua Wolens published
News Nothing is true, everything is permitted. Wait, that's not permitted. Oh god.

The new game from the Blasphemous devs is like if Commandos was a metroidvania set in a Spanish monastery, and also the Green Beret kept losing his mind
By Joshua Wolens published
News You know, videogames.

After 7 hours, Dune: Awakening might be the mix of survival and RPG that finally wins me over to the genre
By Joshua Wolens published
How you Dune The spicy takes must flow.

GOG just brought Dino Crisis 1 and 2 back to life, and wants your help shouting at the execs imprisoning your favourite games
By Joshua Wolens published
News In other words, go vote for Black & White.

Halls of Torment review: A miraculous mix of the best parts of autobattlers and ARPGs
By Joshua Wolens published
Tristram Candy Stay awhile and listen.

20 hours in, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a mad, systems-driven sandbox that captures some of the best parts of games like Stalker
By Joshua Wolens published
Chaos Reigns No one warned me my actions would have consequences.

18 games the PC Gamer team can't wait to play in 2025
By Phil Savage published
🕹️ There's lots to look forward to this year.

Microsoft's latest trick to get you using Bing is disguising it as Google
By Joshua Wolens published
News Imitation is a form of flattery.
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