Joshua Wolens

2 days ago | pcgamer.com | Rich Stanton |Joshua Wolens

Yesterday brought our first proper look at The Witcher 4, thanks to a highly impressive tech demo, and the Ciri-led sequel is now CDPR's next big thing. PCG's Josh Wolens recently sat down with several of the studio's core figures to discuss the series' past and future and, with this happening around The Witcher 3's tenth anniversary, one prominent topic was how the gaming landscape has changed over that time.

2 days ago | pcgamer.com | Harvey Randall |Joshua Wolens

One of the more surface-level discourses in videogames in recent memory has been the hullabaloo over yellow paint—gamers the world over decrying games with obvious sunshine climbables as being patronising slop for little babies (I'm exaggerating, a little). But Miles Tost, the level design lead for The Witcher 4, tells PCG's Joshua Wolens that it's a little more complicated than yellow paint good or yellow paint bad.

1 week ago | pcgamer.com | Joshua Wolens

Two months in, Assassin's Creed Shadows continues to trundle along quietly in the videogame background, presumably quite pleased with itself for pulling in a bunch of players and making such good use of its delays that Ubisoft now wants to delay a whole bunch of other stuff. The game's 1.0.5 patch released today, bringing a new quest, some tweaks 'n' fixes, and—for reasons I am still turning over in my mind—a crossover with Dead By Daylight (and Balatro).

1 week ago | pcgamer.com | Joshua Wolens

Here are the two things I know about PlayStation lead systems architect Mark Cerny:He wants to see my ears. He has the euphonious voice of the seraphim. Seriously, try listening to the guy talk without falling asleep. Well, today we can add a third entry to that list: he is better than me at Balatro. Per a recent post on X, "The Everything App" (via GamesRadar), Cerny has joined the highest echelon of humanity—the 0.1% of players who have gotten a platinum trophy in the game on PlayStation.

1 week ago | pcgamer.com | Joshua Wolens

Peter Mandelson, the oleaginous right-hand of Tony Blair's Labour Party in the late '90s, once remarked to a colleague that the party had no need to focus on its traditional voter base, and could safely dedicate itself to chasing more affluent, middle-class, conservative voters. After all, said Mandelson, its base had "nowhere else to go". Don't worry, I promise we'll get to Dragon Age.