Author: Joshua Wolens

What if the team that made This War of Mine mixed Subnautica and Midnight Suns, but instead of Spider-Man and Venom you were juggling your relationship with like 10 clones of a working-class Polish guy? It may be the most potent question ever asked by a videogame, and the answer is: You’d get The Alters,…

Songs of Conquest, the really quite good and really quite pretty Heroes of Might & Magic-like that first hit early access in 2022, has reached its final form. Well, kind of. The game has finally left early access for the sunlit uplands of a 1.0 release, but the devs promise more development to come: “This…

The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind is my favourite game of all time. It’s also ugly, unintuitive, and has a combat system assembled by someone who wanted to combine all the worst parts of tabletop RPGs and videogames just to see what would happen. Now, to right-thinking people like you and me, that just adds to…

Taskmaster VR, the official virtual reality-ification of the phenomenally popular comedy TV show, has finally gotten its release date. It’ll hit on June 13 this year and, more than anything, show host and creator (Little) Alex Horne is just worried about what players are going to do to him. “They will definitely do things to…

War is hell: The scent of cordite, the clamour of artillery fire, the blood and the smoke and the guys from Five Nights at Freddy’s popping up randomly to scare you. It’s a nightmare made flesh, and something we ought to have grown past as a society, but which remains as a sad holdover from…

Fallout 4’s 14.4GB “next gen” update dropped at the end of April, dovetailing neatly with the very popular Fallout TV show on Amazon. It promised all sorts of bells and whistles to bring the (nearly decade old, my god) game up to date to the standards we expect from videogames in 2024. And then, forgive…

Fallout 3, right? What a game. Bethesda’s first foray into the Wasteland was also a lot of people’s introduction to the series. To this day, it’s easy to find people who call FO3 the best game of the lot. Come the revolution, that opinion will be banned. To those of us who get our videogame…

EA sure is keen to start using AI in all its games. So keen that CEO Andrew Wilson can’t stop chatting about it: In March he was envisioning a bleak future where 3 billion people were using it, and just recently he was regaling investors with the news that EA devs apparently have a “hunger”…

In his office at EA, Andrew Wilson sits dreaming. Specifically, the CEO is dreaming about ways to deliver ads to EA players, up to (and including) potentially sticking them into the corporation’s $60/$70, “AAA” videogames. That’s per a recent earnings call between Wilson and EA investors (via Tom’s Hardware), in which the EA boss was…

If you’re anything like me, you have two desires: The creation of an international brotherhood of man and a version of The Witcher 3 that tells the tale of Zoltan Chivay in a recklessly customisable amount of clothing. It’s my delight to inform you that both dreams are closer to realisation than ever: CD Projekt…