Author: Joshua Wolens

We live in an era of fakes and frauds. With the proliferation of AI, it’s harder than ever to figure out what’s true and what isn’t. Is the Pope dripped out in Balenciaga? Has Tom Cruise met Gorbachev? Am I AI? Are you? There’s only one way to respond to the crushing psychic torture inflicted…

It’s become a running joke that any studio that picks up where Larian left off with Baldur’s Gate is pretty much doomed. Baldur’s Gate 3 is already a classic, one of those games we’ll look back in a decade or two the same way we now look at the great titans of ’90s and mid-2000s…

Skyrim bills itself as a fantasy RPG: A sprawling adventure in which you treat with gods and write your name into myth and legend. But it’s not that, really. For most of us, it’s a life sim. A way to live out a new existence as some kind of itinerant lizardman. Sure, you probably still…

Starfield came out seven months ago and many of us are yet to heal from the discourse. Bethesda’s “dream game” was a polarising thing, earning plaudits from some quarters and a more ambivalent response from others (including, ah, us). But seven months is a lot of time for reflection, and Bethesda boss Todd Howard reckons…

In what’s becoming something of a running theme for PCG’s news coverage this week, a Catholic priest in Pottstown, Pennsylvania has been accused by police of dropping over $40,000 of the Church’s money on mobile games. Namely, Candy Crush, Mario Kart Tour, Pokémon Go, various slot machine and hidden object games, and Cash Frenzy. As…

Victoria 3, Paradox’s game about making Karl Marx president or something, is due to get its first major expansion soon. It’s called Sphere of Influence, and it promises to amp up Vicky’s diplomatic aspects by focusing on regional interests, entanglements in foreign economies, and letting your nation’s myriad interest groups form lobbies to agitate for…

What’s the half-life of Half-Life? By my reckoning, it seems we’ll stop receiving updates to (one version or another of) Valve’s classic roughly around the time Chernobyl becomes habitable again. Not only did the original game get a big ol’ update last November, but now Black Mesa—its Valve-endorsed remake—has just put out a meaty list…

The Fallout TV show is here and, in a development I’ve still not fully internalised, it’s good. You know what that means: Time to completely lose our minds obsessing over it, and particularly to lose our minds obsessing over what seems to Bethesda’s official SPECIAL stats sheets for its main characters. Because I have questions.…

Need to know What is it?  A claymation-y narrative adventure set on a stranded spaceship. Release date  April 16, 2024  Developer Slow Bros Publisher Slow Bros Reviewed on RTX 4080, Ryzen 3700x, 16GB RAM  Steam Deck Verified Link Official site Harold Halibut’s most enduring running gag is about Sonsuz Ask, a Turkish soap opera that seems to be the only…

Back in the day, when the world was young and filled with dreams and sunlight, Fallout was an isometric series. Little paper people ran around 2D environments and did horrible things to each other while you surveyed it all from on-high like the all-powerful god-wizard-king a player is meant to be, rather than from behind…