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.

Latest articles by Joshua Wolens

I'm calling it: GTA 6 is officially an immersive sim, based on what you can do with NPCs

By Joshua Wolens Published

News If I see a video of Lucia stacking crates to get over a wall I'm gonna lose it.

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News
GOG's getting into publishing in its new, post-CD-Projekt life, and it already has games on the way

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Good… new games?

News
Edge 430 cover art, showing Jason and Lucia from GTA 6.
Edge magazine went to Rockstar to see GTA 6, and will tell you all about it in lavish detail this Thursday, October 29

By Joshua Wolens Published

News I bet you can steal cars.

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News
Kingdom Come, Lord of the Rings studio Warhorse 'hit by a cyberattack'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News "This is a serious incident for Warhorse Studios and for everyone affected."

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I've never felt worse for doing well in a videogame than in this intensely '90s citybuilder

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Sorry to everyone I evicted. Maybe take a drive to make yourselves feel better.

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Award-winning sci-fi author NK Jemisin joins BioWare's mourners and scorns a broken industry for killing geese that 'laid the golden eggs'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News "The [Mass Effect] and [Dragon Age] games were a literal inspiration."

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EA has reportedly put DICE and Respawn to work on a new Star Wars: Battlefront game

By Joshua Wolens Published

News It will unlock growth, which I'm pretty excited about.

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News
BioWare never stopped making Baldur's Gate 2

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Party Animals BG2 was when BioWare truly understood how nuts we all were for companions.

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Party Animals
Of course a new Edgerunners series means a new Cyberpunk 2077 patch

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Together at last?

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News
Subnautica 2 Alien Ruins: A Collector Leviathan grabbing the player.
Subnautica 2 is heading for 'Early access 2.0,' which brings 'one of our scariest regions we've ever done'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Spooky, dark, deep.

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I have added completely realistic Uber driving to Grand Theft Auto 5

By Joshua Wolens Published

Los Santos Customs Your driver is nearby.

Los Santos Customs
To help America, I used Crusader Kings 3 to figure out how to remove a doddering, senile lunatic from power

By Joshua Wolens Published

Come at the king Any resemblance to actual persons or actual events is purely coincidental.

Come at the king
This game about grinding mute lumps of shapeless flesh has made me realise I've been hornswoggled by capitalism

By Joshua Wolens Published

The New Flesh Flesh grinders of the world, unite.

The New Flesh
My career as a weed farmer was derailed by my unslakeable lust for golf

By Joshua Wolens Published

Los Santos Customs Same old story.

Los Santos Customs
Linux kernel drops AI-contribution disclosure rule, as Linus Torvalds says banning the tech would be 'utterly stupid'

By Joshua Wolens Published

News The key thing for Torvalds is that you understand the code you submit, not how you made it.

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GTA 5 finally measures up to the actual best GTA game now I've added a jetpack

By Joshua Wolens Published

Los Santos Customs Zoom.

Los Santos Customs
After Civ 7 stumbled, Humankind 2 looks like it's making smart choices to pick up the 4X torch

By Joshua Wolens Published

Oh the humanity Very dialectical.

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Oh the humanity
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The best free PC games

By Shaun Prescott last updated

Freebies Forever Our frequently updated selection of the best free games right now.

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Freebies Forever
I've given GTA 5's cars Bond-style ejector seats

By Joshua Wolens Published

Los Santos Customs Going up.

Los Santos Customs
I can summon jumbo jets and boats from the sky in GTA 5 now, and I'll do it in the middle of crowded intersections if I want to

By Joshua Wolens Published

Los Santos Customs And I do want to.

Los Santos Customs
Ben Affleck lost 3 years to Starcraft, has strong Valorant opinions, and mourns RTSes as a genre, so there's solid odds he's one of our regular commenters

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News He's also handsome and wealthy. I'm beginning to think we're the same guy.

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News
RimWorld drops Unity for its own in-house engine, says your saves still work, so do most mods, and the whole thing runs twice as fast

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Which is quite the feat.

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I don't know what Rick and Morty's about but I have turned GTA 5 into its perfect replica

By Joshua Wolens Published

Los Santos Customs You need to have a very high IQ to understand Grand Theft Auto.

Los Santos Customs
Mafia 3, which PC Gamer scored 54% but which I say is great, got a nice little 10th-anniversary update

By Joshua Wolens Published

News As ever, I'm a genius tastemaker ahead of my time.

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News
I might finally have gone too far with a GTA 5 mod that imports most of Doom 2

By Joshua Wolens Published

Los Santos Customs Insert sick riff here.

Los Santos Customs
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