Latest articles by Joshua Wolens
Former BioWare lead writer says the best level in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines gave him 'ammunition' to argue that story can be just as engaging as combat
News Especially spooky stories.
Yuri Lowenthal spills the beans on a Persona 4 remake by announcing that Atlus doesn't want him in it: 'Maybe I even begged, but they don’t want me to come back'
News Which is probably not what Sega PR had in mind.
Massive Morrowind mod Tamriel Rebuilt couldn't be less worried about Bethesda going for an Oblivion-style remaster: 'Modernising Morrowind would just ruin the game entirely'
News And by god, they're right.
Ex-Dragon Age lead hopes Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 pulls an 'Expedition 33 or Baldur's Gate 3' by leaning into the combat-light, roleplaying-heavy gameplay of the tabletop version
News Which sounds alright to me, but maybe isn't quite what we're getting.
Assassin's Creed Shadows has Dead By Daylight content in it now for reasons fathomless to man
News I guess you do kill a lot of people in daylight.
Dulcet-voiced Sony tech god Mark Cerny is better than you at Balatro, s the 0.1% of players to platinum the whole game
News Who's this Joker?
Dragon Age creator says EA execs thought BioWare fans would eat whatever slop they were given since 'the nerds in the cave would always show up for an RPG, because it was an RPG'
News Which worked out very well.
CD Projekt Red reflects on its hubris following The Witcher 3's success, and how that led to Cyberpunk 2077's problems: 'I think that was the beginning of a bit of magical thinking for the company'
News CD Projekt Red went from being an underdog to the biggest deal around, and that had consequences.
One of the worst games of all time got a Steam release, but is it even that bad compared to our current hell of asset-flips and Steam shovelware?
No more winning Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is a dark vision of future past.
This XCOM-style strategy game dares to ask: What if Napoleon Bonaparte was a woman who had an army of battlemechs?
News I've long wondered this myself.
'They listened! They listened!': Stalker restores Soviet monument after angry fans tanked its Steam reviews, and they couldn't be happier
News I guess he really will live again.
This hacking sim is like if Uplink was more of a puzzle game, and if you live for snooping through other people's emails you're going to be well-served
News Do you think Bureau 121 ever has to go on mandatory team-building retreats?
CDPR boss says Witcher author Sapkowski's grumpiness is a 'persona,' he's actually lovely and the studio's 'updating everything' to make sure they respect his lore
News A cranky old guy with a heart of gold? Why, that sounds just like this witcher I know.
The Witcher 3's development took CDPR from 'How do we escape annihilation?' to having Sony on speed-dial
News A meteoric rise with, uh, a few bumps along the way.
Doug Cockle wasn't the 'obvious' choice for Geralt in The Witcher—but he kept winning out because he was 'the best at being normal'
News "There were some who would have preferred him to have sort of a Texan accent."
Stalker remaster reviews crater to 'Mostly Negative' as players lament deleted Soviet monuments, yanked Russian language, and blurry graphics that I didn't notice in 23 hours playing
Such is life in the Zone.
'You guys are not Bethesda': During development, The Witcher 3 devs were told by a Walmart rep 'I like you guys, but it's just not gonna happen'
News "I made a bet with him … he still kinda owes me that dinner."
I accidentally forgot to start the Soviet Union in this excellent free game about the Russian Revolution
News Lenin must have written it on a post-it note.
The legend who made Oblivion's Dark Brotherhood infinite has made its Thieves' Guild go on forever as well
News Plus the Fighter's Guild and Arena. There's a lot of stuff to do for the rest of your life, basically.
The PC Gaming Show returns June 8 with great hosts, amazing games, and a live on-air PC build and giveaway
News Now I have to what all these motherboard headers are for.
The best free games on Steam
Updated! Nothing but the best free Steam games you can play right now.
I did Liberation Day tariffs in Victoria 3, and it all went well until the famine in Colorado, the 2 lost wars with Canada, and the president beating a man to death with a stick
Big, Beautiful But apart from that, would recommend.
Kojima has a mind tomb: a USB stick filled with ideas for his staff to use after he dies 'kind of like a will'
News Watch out for Kojima Productions to split into two warring factions over competing definitions of Kojima's Will.
