Latest articles by Joshua Wolens
Twitter is dead, X is a cesspit, let's make 2025 the year of the message board
X Rated Bluesky's a nice enough alternative, but it doesn't solve most of the fundamental problems of massive social media.
Too many games released busted, broken, and basically in early access this year—it's time for it to stop
defective product The money-men are getting complacent in our incredibly online era.
Best RPG 2024: Metaphor: ReFantazio
🏆 Atlus graduates from high school and brings us its best JRPG yet.
I saved myself and you $70 by simply modding Skyrim to be indistinguishable from Metaphor: ReFantazio, the year's best RPG
Metaphor ReSkyrim You can't even tell the difference.
Halls of Torment feels like the brilliant lovechild of Vampire Survivors and Diablo, and the absolute pinnacle of autobattlers
🏆 Cow level presence: undetermined.
Sweet aunt Petunia! GSC just announced updates for the 3 classic Stalker games 15 years after release
News Cheekis to be 40% more breeki.
Path of Exile 2's huge passive skill tree used to scare me, but now I've started treating it as 'open-world character creation' I've fallen in love with the whole thing
Any Witch Way Take a hike.
Stalker 2 revives A-Life with a mondo-huge 110 GB Christmas patch that marks the game's first major update
News Weight limit exceeded.
Civilization 7 will let you hand the keys to the nukes to Benjamin Franklin and Harriet Tubman, and guess what? America's just showed up
News It's a whole new world.
Fans reckon that Ciri's on the path in The Witcher 4 because The Witcher 3's endgame screwed everything up
News Always keep your spheres separate, folks. Sphere safety 101.
Delta Force says its USB drive ban was a 'translation error' and it won't shunt you to the shadowrealm for keeping a thumbstick plugged in
News You'll safely eject this drive from my cold, dead hands.
Humble has brought back its ultra-meaty RPG bundle with Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader and its 2,000+ 'Overwhelmingly Positive' recent Steam reviews, plus OG Baldur's Gate and Pathfinder
News You can never have too much of a good thing.
Ubisoft celebrates the reopening of Notre Dame by reminding you all that Assassin's Creed Unity was great, actually
News And honi soit qui mal y pense.
Witcher 3 dataminers detail the enormous scrapped questline that would have brought back The Witcher 2's best character, and maybe saved the game from its worst bit of writing
News But the stealth elf would have no wealth of health.
Finally, The Witcher 3 with the fat cut out: They're releasing a physical Gwent board game for true connoisseurs
News All killer, no filler.
Delta Force has a list of tech it'll ban you to the shadowrealm for using, including the usual cheating software but also way weirder stuff like 'USB drives' [Update: The devs say it's fine, actually]
News But that's where I keep all my legitimately acquired media!
Let's Build A Dungeon is an intricate sim where you design the MMO of your dreams, then decide whether to toss it all out the window to keep players and shareholders happy
News Too real.
Fancy a Stalker/XCOM mashup that has you putting down the enemies of a tyrannical dictator? Chains of Freedom has you covered
News You know, a cosy game.
Enter the Chronosphere is a super-creative roguelike/strategy game where time only moves when you move, and you can try the open beta now
News Your move. Actually, everyone's move.
Tiny indie studio realises someone is selling its free games for $100+ on eBay and is totally stoked: 'We're a real developer now' it declares, adding an 'in your face!' to a homebrew convention that rejected them
News But Safety Stoat says you should under no circumstances actually buy the damn thing.
