Iain Harris

Iain Harris

News Editor, Games

I joined GamesRadar+ in May 2022 following stints at PCGamesN and PocketGamer.Biz, with some freelance for Kotaku UK, RockPaperShotgun, and VG24/7 thrown in for good measure. When I'm not running the news team on the games side, you'll find me putting News Editor duties to one side to play the hottest JRPG of 20 years ago or pillaging the depths of Final Fantasy 14 for a swanky new cloak – the more colourful, the better.

Latest articles by Iain Harris

GTA 6
GTA 6 2026 release delay live blog - All the information and reactions live

By Sam Loveridge Last updated

Everything we know so far about the GTA 6 2026 delay and the reactions from the industry

Grand Theft Auto
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
"It's really fateful" – Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director on charting a new course for the JRPG series with a return to Nintendo, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and outdoing AI

By Iain Harris Published

Features Interview | Square Enix's Naoki Hamaguchi answers all of our questions - then several more

Features
Aerith from Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth prays
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director "would love" to make a AA game with a similar scope to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 that's "really focused on one area"

By Kaan Serin Published

News But only if Naoki Hamaguchi "completely ignored" his role at Square Enix

News
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Gustave winces
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director's GOTY pick, and not just because it features JRPG-inspired combat: "It gets all of the elements in it right"

By Kaan Serin Published

News Naoki Hamaguchi's also a fan

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News
Cloud as a Moogle in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says "however much AI might try and intrude and take part in the creative side of things," his team would want to be "good enough creators" that "we could do better than AI"

By Iain Harris Published

News Naoki Hamaguchi says that using AI for the creative side of development is "not something that I could really go ahead with"

News
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Gustave winces
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs love to see players "outsmarting" them with obscene builds that break the French JRPG wide open: "The best reward you can get"

By Iain Harris Published

News I'm not sure Simon feels the same way

News
Anime cutscene in Tales of Rebirth showing a woman trapped in crystal or ice
20 years later, cult classic PS2 JRPG Tales of Rebirth is finally fully playable in English thanks to a fan translation that's been in the works for nearly 4 years

By Iain Harris Published

News Another Tales game has been, well, rebirthed

News
PlayStation
Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida has one regret from the PS1 era: the US and Europe missed out on too many Japanese classics

By Iain Harris Published

News "So some Japanese games, especially from third-party companies, didn't see release in the US and European regions"

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The Outer Worlds 2 screenshot of companion Aza who points a weapon that's mounted on her lower arm
The Outer Worlds 2 lead says players want "deeper RPGs," and that the team has looked to "older Obsidian games" to deliver just that: "How can we bring that back to the forefront"

By Iain Harris Published

News Game director Brandon Adler wants to "really get back to those sensibilities of a really strong RPG"

News
Clair Obscur Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is only 85% of its creative director's original vision for the French JRPG, and he "would have loved" to do more with a specific fan-favorite character

By Iain Harris Published

News Justice for Esquie is "something that we might want to do later," says Sandfall Interactive lead Guillaume Broche

News
Battlefield 6
Battlefield 6 release live coverage – all the patch note highlights, launch information, and more that you need to know

By Iain Harris Last updated

LIVE The next installment in EA's long-running FPS series is finally close to launching

LIVE
Golden Joystick Awards
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads the Golden Joystick Award 2025 charge for most nominations, nudging out Death Stranding 2, Ghost of Yotei, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

By Iain Harris Published

News Don't delay, vote today

News
World of Warcraft: Midnight
World of Warcraft: Midnight's riff on Monolith's The Lord of the Rings Nemesis System was spurred on by a War Within feature Blizzard doubted: "We weren't sure how people would react"

By Iain Harris Published

News Blizzard wants to "get people a little bit more engaged in the outdoor world"

News
A character in Final Fantasy 14 wields dual swords
I play Final Fantasy 14 like I do any other Final Fantasy game of the past 27 years, totally solo and you can too with the Free Trial

By Iain Harris Published

Presented by Square Enix

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave
Everything announced at the Nintendo Direct September 2025

By Iain Harris Last updated

News Super Mario Galaxy movie! Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave! More!

News
Mad Moxxi
Get ready for the Borderlands 4 release – live build-up, reactions, and launch info as we count down to Gearbox's open-world looter shooter

By Iain Harris Last updated

LIVE It's Borderlands 4 release day, so follow along as we cover everything you need to know

LIVE
Hollow Knight Silksong
Hollow Knight Silksong release live coverage – Steam and eShop outages, early hands-on impressions, and more

By Iain Harris Last updated

LIVE With the Hollow Knight Silksong release time now here, join us live as we all act completely normal about this massive launch

LIVE
Two characters sit and enjoy the sunset in a grassy field filled with rock formations from a Final Fantasy Tactics screenshot.
Final Fantasy Tactics remaster makes Cloud easier to use, Square Enix promises, and even gives him the Materia Blade right off the bat, so you'll want to see the secret hiding where it was in the original RPG

By Jordan Gerblick Published

News Director Kazutoyo Maehiro admits "he was pretty difficult to utilize as a character" in the original strategy RPG

News
Resident Evil Requiem screenshot of Grace Ashcroft, who has white short hair and glasses and wears a black blazer with an FBI badge, sitting at a desk in front of a PC monitor
Gamescom Day 1 live coverage – all the news, interviews, and previews as they happen

By Iain Harris Last updated

LIVE From Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 to Hollow Knight Silksong, we're on the floor in Germany to go hands-on with all the most exciting upcoming games

LIVE
Hell Let Loose Vietnam
Hell Let Loose Vietnam "isn't just about the new theatre of war", creative director says, "we're introducing a bunch of new mechanics that really push the boundaries"

By Iain Harris Published

Presented by Team17

Fly planes, drive boats, and so much more

Witchspire
League of Legends, Overwatch 2 contributor announces a game of its own, an adorable survival-crafting adventure called Witchspire

By Iain Harris Published

News And it's launching in Early Access next year on PC

News
Serial World
This quirky roguelike JRPG brings some deck building to the Pokemon formula I didn't know I needed until now

By Iain Harris Published

News There are many Pokemon games and RPGs like it, but few implement the cards the series is known for like this

News
Tormented Souls 2
Sequel to Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark throwback Tormented Souls gets October release date

By Iain Harris Published

News Tormented Souls 2 launches this spooky season

News
Fellowship
Fellowship is "all dungeons, all the time" – and you can play the RPG when it launches in Early Access in October

By Iain Harris Published

Presented by Arc Games

It's all the joys of hitting an MMO dungeon without the grind

Lost Rift
Gears of War: Judgement, Outriders dev's FPS survival game Lost Rift hits Early Access in September

By Iain Harris Published

Presented by People Can Fly

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