Latest articles by Joshua Wolens
Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remake is such a badly kept secret it's been leaked by a statue maker who just assumed we all knew it was coming
News Whoops.
'The complexity of mods we can make just shot up big time': Oblivion Remastered modders breach a new frontier even without Bethesda —making it play nice with Lua scripts
News The mad lads have done it.
89-year-old Skyrim Grandma starts streaming Oblivion Remastered, has to deal with its mystifying lockpicking minigame and 'absolutely ugly movement' just like we did in 2006
News It's not an age thing, grandma. It doesn't make sense to most of us either.
Elden Ring Nightreign is immediately FromSoft's worst-reviewed game on Steam: 'This is not the Elden Ring you are looking for'
news Bold of you to assume I have friends, From.
Hot off making the biggest city in any Elder Scrolls game, Tamriel Rebuilt is already eyeing one 'Twice the size'
News The mad lads are gonna do it.
A game claiming the backing of Russia's military just popped up on Steam: 'I understand Ukrainian players don't like us'
News Many are calling for Squad 22: ZOV to be pulled from Steam.
Morrowind's new city from Tamriel Rebuilt is 'Bigger than any playable Elder Scrolls city in general,' and a single hero made its exterior
News Putting the 'labour' in labour of love.
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.
