Joshua Wolens

1 day ago | pcgamer.com | Joshua Wolens

Friends, I have a disease. Not, uh, not one of the bad ones, I mean a disease of the mind. In any management-esque game—from Theme Hospital to Factorio—I am incapable of planning until it's too late, until I have layered one haphazard system on another to an extent that I can't easily go back to the drawing board. I need to slap things together and see how things work to make a plan, but to implement the plan I need to tear apart the ramshackle monster I've built and do it all over again.

1 day ago | flipboard.com | Joshua Wolens

2 hours agoYusuf / Cat Stevens has written an autobiography. Cat on the Road to Findout documents the singer-songwriter’s rise from folk troubadour to pop sensation before his conversion to Islam and temporary retreat from the public eye. The book comes out October 7 in North America, via Genesis Publications, …

1 day ago | pcgamer.com | Joshua Wolens

It's a sad truth of the world that there are only so many war crimes you can render in pornographic detail before it all starts to get ho-hum. The electric thrill wears off, the dizzying highs transform into stultifying mids, and even the Red Cross stops calling when you execute your millionth downed opponent. This is, probably, not quite what former Call of Duty animator Chance Glasco was talking about in a recent interview with Tulsa's News 9 network (via GameSpot), but I like to pretend it is.

1 day ago | pcgamer.com | Joshua Wolens

In a move that global human rights organisations are probably calling 'a concerning slide into totalitarianism,' the moderators of one of the largest Oblivion communities online—the TES4 subreddit—have exercised their mad, dictatorial power to lay down a comprehensive ban on people thirstposting about the Flame Atronachs in Oblivion Remastered.

2 days ago | pcgamer.com | Joshua Wolens

Let's play 'guess the game'. You're a meticulous killer in a historical setting. Your targets are high-ranking aristocrats, priests, merchants—men and women of status who go everywhere flanked by a platoon of guards, who sleep behind barred doors, and whose entire lives are lived publicly.