Author: Joshua Wolens

Shogun, a programme about a man who’s so bad at boats he crashes into Japan, is the best thing on television right now. Feted with glowing reviews and hotly discussed around water coolers the world over, it seems set to join that pantheon of shows that your most annoying friend (me) constantly asks if you’ve…

Good news for anyone who’s spent the last six years in a cold sweat, veins pulsing in their forehead as their hand hovers over the purchase button on the Steam page for Hentai Backend Developer 4: that feature that lets you hide all your most shameful games from your Steam library is finally out of…

I’m beginning to fall victim to a kind of paranoia. Is there anything that can’t run Doom at this point? Is there anything that isn’t running it as we speak? I’m beginning to detect the E1M1 music at the edge of my hearing as I go about my business, catching glimpses of cacodemons out the…

Tekken 8 executive game director Katsuhiro Harada has offered a helping hand to a fan whose brother unexpectedly died not long after the game released, explaining how to preserve an AI-driven “ghost” of the brother’s Tekken character. Harada was responding (on Twitter) to a Reddit thread from a Tekken fan going by the name Melodic_Insect1356.…

If you’re anything like me, the overwhelming popularity of Helldivers 2 has made you hungry for a rewatch of Starship Troopers: Paul Verhoeven’s satirical, anti-fascist Leni Riefenstahl send-up about pearly-toothed space marines and their doomed war against an army of bugs. And look, I know a lot of you are like me in that regard,…

Helldivers 2 fans (a demographic that encompasses 68% of the planet so far as I can tell) are feeling the spirit of Big Boss. Specifically, they’ve noticed that the game’s movement and more than a few of its animations bear a striking resemblance to 2014’s Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes and its follow-up The Phantom…

Nobuo Uematsu, the legendary musician who composed the soundtracks for various Final Fantasy games, is done composing full soundtracks for the series. In a chat with German outlet Zeit (via VGC), Uematsu said he just doesn’t have it in him to put together an entire game’s soundtrack anymore. “I don’t think I’ll compose music for…

Botched patches are the worst. Devs spend hours, days or weeks on them, players get excited for them, but when they release they just cause tumult and upset. Ideally, they just mess up something minor, a bagatelle that very few people will notice and that you can rectify in the next patch. But sometimes it’s…

Millennia, that Paradox-published Civilization-like from C-Prompt Games, has gotten its release date. It’s coming March 26, giving you a shot at navigating 10,000 years of history in an orderly, hex-based manner across all sorts of ages and crises. That also means you can pre-purchase it, if you’re so inclined. Millennia’s standard edition is going for…