Author: Joshua Wolens

Kenshi is one of the most utterly strange games I’ve ever had the pleasure of playing, and it holds a special place in my heart. It was the impetus behind one of my first-ever published pieces of games writing, which means you can probably blame it—at least in part—for the fact you have to keep…

Saviorless is beautiful, which is handy, because I’ve had to look at the same parts of it again and again in the few hours I’ve spent with it to write this piece. Released this week on Steam and Epic by Cuban studio Empty Head Games and billed irresistibly as the country’s “first major indie game,”…

Few things seemed like more of a closed book to me than Vlambeer, the developer of Luftrausers, Nuclear Throne, and Ridiculous Fishing. A studio made up of Jan Nijman and Rami Ismail, Vlambeer shut its doors in September 2020 after 10 years in business, and announced “the end of Vlambeer” in a short, straightforward Twitter…

Look, I get it. You’re tired of reading about 20th-century German social democracy on PC Gamer dot com. “Please!” you yell, “Write about Helldivers! Say something about Palworld! One of you must have another Starfield take left in the tank! Anything but another lengthy discourse on the political economy of Rudolf Hilferding!” Well, sorry friendo,…

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The videogame industry’s unending anni horribiles continued today as Sega announced it would be laying off 240 staff across Sega Europe, mobile developer Sega HARDlight, and Total War studio Creative Assembly. To top it off, the corporation has also sold Company of Heroes developer Relic Entertainment, which will transition to being an independently-run studio with…

The problem with Skyrim is that it’s all too permanent. Your swords, your armour, your sweetrolls, they all just hang around forever until you drop them, sell them off, or eat them (not the swords and armour; don’t eat your swords and armour). It’s a plastic-fantastic world where nothing ever ends, and buddy, I’ve had…

War is hell, and the debasement and corruption of its participants only accelerates as humanity invents new, more spectacular, and more terrible weapons with which to prosecute it. Helldivers 2—with its arsenal of Breakers, Dominators, and Redeemers—is no different. But even Super Earth has limits, as Arrowhead has now implored Helldivers everywhere to refrain from…

Baldur’s Gate 3 is bafflingly reactive. You can’t drop-kick an owlbear without the ripples spreading out and causing some kind of reaction later on down the line. But it goes even deeper than I knew: In a recent interview, Larian CEO Swen Vincke shed some light on the studio’s “n+1” design philosophy, and revealed just…