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
![Gale falls to the ground as the player casts the Testicular Torsion spell on him.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/YRvDNuy26rnb6u745tJVJ-320-80.jpg)
Baldur's Gate 3 modder creates its most hellish spell yell: On-demand testicular torsion
By Joshua Wolens published
News Magic as cruel as it is potent.
![A character waves a British flag in the Wasteland in Fallout: London.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/FWqb4sKXDmxoexvicxtAWj-320-80.png)
After years, Fallout 4's much-anticipated 'DLC-sized' mod Fallout: London is out, here's how to install it
By Joshua Wolens published
London Calling Getting Fallout: London running on a Steam copy of FO4 can be a right palaver.
![Life By You - a character with long dark hair, glasses, and a green shirt stands on a suburban street](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/3bhdGu7tuDE2b24ynVsXsa-320-80.jpg)
After Life by You's disastrous end, Paradox chalks up a 90% drop in operating profit for Q2: 'We end the second quarter of the year with mixed feelings'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Well, you would too.
![Whoopi Goldberg stands, flanked by Lilith and Inarius from Diablo 4.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/S8ZwxYazwVSztVPGh6iSL6-320-80.jpg)
Blizzard mends rift with Whoopi Goldberg at Whoopi Goldberg-themed weed event as Diablo 4's Lilith presents star with 'key to hell'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Either all those things happened or I've finally cracked.
![Twitch logo](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/jYwLcGNuReQ27qcHhcVv8L-320-80.jpg)
Twitch policy update clarifies exactly what it means by 'sexual harassment'
By Joshua Wolens published
News It's accompanied by an AutoMod update to better weed out creepy comments.
![Agent 47 lounges at the beach, a porta-potty looming behind him.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Sh57GqDDFgooqjrMSynhjB-320-80.jpg)
Modder creates Hitman 3's ultimate weapon: A portable, inflatable toilet you can deploy anywhere to drown your targets in
By Joshua Wolens published
News Flush out your foes.
![Captain](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ZW7gKTc94wRkih5rr6vfK6-320-80.png)
Ubisoft's live-service pirate sim Skull and Bones pulls into port on Steam this August
By Joshua Wolens published
News Unless it gets delayed again. For old times' sake.
![The witcher 3 wild hunt geralt bathtub](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ePdQwZjBaqzcr82pZKCJwT-320-80.jpg)
Mix a little Obsidian into your CDPR with this mod that adds a full-blown reputation system to The Witcher 3
By Joshua Wolens published
News Best foot forward, Geralt.
![An emoji of a PC, an emoji of a dead face, and an emoji of a rock.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XpW3ZALke4WdryBj8GUMWY-320-80.png)
PC Gamer does not beat rock in this viral AI-driven rock-paper-scissors browser game where a dead dog beats John Wick, low gravity beats bazookas, and me on a bad day beats Margit, the Fell Omen
By Joshua Wolens published
News Don't blame us, the whole internet got turned off or something.
![Four survivors with guns](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/fDQTum2JjCMgm45VszyJbe-320-80.png)
FTC says I told you judge, I warned you bro, as it unloads on Microsoft for Game Pass price hikes and 'a degraded product' that it says break promises made to seal the Activision merger
By Joshua Wolens published
News The FTC notes that Microsoft didn't mention these hikes when it was talking about bringing CoD to Game Pass subs on day one.
![The Sega logo is pictured at the company's booth during the Tokyo Game Show in Chiba prefecture on September 15, 2022](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/gBpsy9QpaSp42SN8Hx4TXb-320-80.jpg)
Sega identifies harasser making 'excessive slanderous and insulting comments' towards one of its staff, sues them into oblivion, and says if anyone wants to try the same it's their funeral
By Joshua Wolens published
News "As there has been no improvement, we have been forced to take legal action."
![Fortnite China](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mEv7CPwrGUh2yPyq2mHji4-320-80.jpg)
China is dispatching crack teams of AI interrogators to make sure its corporations' chatbots are upholding 'core socialist values'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Heck, they even have a theme song.
![A girl in a red cloak meets a white dog in a forest.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/6fNLu7ft5AxznGbs97ApuA-320-80.jpg)
Neva is a beautiful side-scrolling platformer from the Gris devs with an adorable doggy companion that is inevitably going to die horribly
By Joshua Wolens published
Wolf Dread Please don't hurt my dog. Wolf. Deer. Thing.
![Halloween concept, dead man's hand coming out from the grave.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qyY6MrFzhnAPXapRydryRA-320-80.jpg)
Tabletop game forumite achieves posting godhood, emerging from the void after 100,000 hour 11 year ban to continue the same argument from 2013
By Joshua Wolens published
News No, I am not revealing my username.
![A space explorer surveys an alien world, where islands hang in the air.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8bncc8uycf5JpEqseSMpnZ-320-80.jpg)
No Man's Sky goes 5.0 with a sweeping tech update that's 'adding things the community has almost given up hope on ever happening'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Worlds Part I promises to make the galaxy more resplendent than ever.
![An image of the Secretlab Titan Evo against a blue background.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/TBFXhiUxNghpUyMiqikDYN-320-80.jpg)
I am very tempted to swap out my no-name office chair for this Prime Day deal on our favorite gaming chair
By Joshua Wolens published
Prime Day Mostly because I think magnets are cool, I admit.
![Gigabyte M28U 4k 144Hz Gaming Monitor](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hPvPrjHUUizQrbwEVRyVmM-320-80.jpg)
This 4K, 144Hz Prime Day monitor deal might finally convince me to leave the 1440p life behind
By Joshua Wolens published
Prime Day
![Keyart for Whiskerwood, showing mice workers scurrying about under the baleful gaze of a fat cat.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kQGEFseiiqvAUpi29UnDE8-320-80.jpg)
Tom & Jerry meets Rimworld in this complex city builder that's all about throwing off the yoke of feline tyranny
By Joshua Wolens published
News You have nothing to lose but your cheese.
![TOPSHOT - Volunteers, including medics, help emergency and rescue personnel to clear the rubble of a destroyed building at Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital following a Russian missile attack in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on July 8, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/DjKbavkhV9BoWV4qgeuLNn-320-80.jpg)
Indika publisher, Frostpunk dev to donate $50,000 to 'support Ukrainian kids' in wake of Russian missile strike on the country's biggest children's hospital
By Joshua Wolens published
News 11 bit had announced plans for such a donation last year.
![The entire Persona 4 party faces off against an enemy in a slightly foggy arena.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/NmXQagPZftPzDpTUuiGR2K-320-80.jpg)
Persona 4 Golden mod turns it back into your granddaddy's Shin Megami Tensei, fixing the gravest aesthetic crime of its non-PS2 version
By Joshua Wolens published
News Fogging up your glasses.
![Jedi Master Atris wields a lightsaber next to Sith Lord Darth Nihlus in keyart for KOTOR 2.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/RsoSwmLDGzeaiY7HXb5Xx7-320-80.jpg)
You can pick up the best Star Wars RPG ever made on the most forgettable launcher ever made for free if you're a Prime Gaming sub
By Joshua Wolens published
News Apathy is… ah, whatever.
![A shot of a two-page artwork from Grace Given, an Elden Ring lore book.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/u2nHWRWojUjMMPwhEZpZEM-320-80.jpg)
Alright, who wants to spot me $1,000 for this absurdly sumptuous Elden Ring lore book?
By Joshua Wolens published
News That's not a serious question. I will probably get into trouble if people take that as a serious question.
![Elden Ring's Let Me Solo Her standing in Liurnia](https://cdn.statically.io/img/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/TzGQdwDTJnEsn6d6yvhJFc-320-80.jpg)
Rechristened 'Let Me Solo Them,' Elden Ring's greatest hero has overcome his first-time jitters and is now clowning on Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss
By Joshua Wolens published
News He's beginning to believe.