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

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Gustave in a French-inspired outfit
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs went from being "pretty nervous" about Oblivion Remastered stealing their spotlight to celebrating with champagne and croissants days later when reviews landed

By Iain Harris Published

News With 3.3 million sales in 33 days, the nerves were swiftly put to one side

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Two knights riding Chocobos in Final Fantasy Tactics race under a bridge
Square Enix isn't ruling out another Final Fantasy Tactics-style game if the strategy RPG's remaster sells well: "We sincerely hope that this happens"

By Iain Harris Published

News "Such success will surely pave the way for the release of new tactics titles that follow The Ivalice Chronicles"

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Final Fantasy 14
Final Fantasy 14's Yoshi-P apologizes for the buggy state of the MMO and vows to make a Dawntrail raid that's only been cleared 400 times in 23 days more accessible

By Iain Harris Published

News Occult Crescent and Cosmic Exploration have plenty of fixes on the way in patch 7.3

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Two knights riding Chocobos in Final Fantasy Tactics race under a bridge
OG Final Fantasy Tactics director "might" have included War of the Lions' added content if he were leading the strategy RPG remaster, but backs the controversial call not to

By Iain Harris Published

News Yasumi Matsuno also says the PSP port's new storyline is "undoubtedly different from my vision"

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 gets dethroned as Metacritic's best-rated game of 2025 by Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom's Switch 2 upgrades

By Iain Harris Published

News In the end, though, aren't we all winners?

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Everything announced at the Xbox Games Showcase 2025

By Rollin Bishop last updated

Recap All the announcements, surprises, reveals, and bits of news out from Microsoft

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Upcoming puzzle game from The House of Da Vinci devs shows up at Future Games Show Summer Showcase to tease never-seen-before levels

By Iain Harris Published

Presented by Blue Brain Games

The House of Tesla is due to launch later this year

Berserk B.I.T.S is an idle-RPG that's shaping up to be a major threat to my productivity, and there's a new Steam demo you can try now

By Iain Harris Published

Presented by Beserk Boy Games

I hope my boss isn't reading this

Joe & Mac in Future Games Show
A trio of classic SNES platforming games is making a comeback after 30 years, and you can support the project on Kickstarter this week

By Iain Harris Published

Presented by Red Art Games

Joe & Mac Retro Collection brings 90s-era SNES games into the modern day with plenty of quality-of-life features

Sacrifire in Future Games Show
SacriFire is an HD-2D ode to 90s JRPGs you can wishlist on Steam now

By Iain Harris Published

Presented by Retrovibe sp. z o.o.

Sci-fi and fantasy collide in this throwback RPG

Hell is Us in Future Games Show
Upcoming dark action-adventure game Hell is Us is channeling "old Zelda games" by giving you "just enough to know where to go but not too much"

By Iain Harris Published

News Hell is Us releases September 4

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Under Par in Future Games Show
Save the world in just 30 seconds in this time-bending roguelike that has a Steam demo you can play now

By Iain Harris Published

Presented by Flyway Games

Bring the world back from the brink of destruction in Ascend to Zero

Ahoy in Future Games Show
Trade goods and mastermind ferocious naval battles in this historically accurate sea-faring adventure game set in the late 18th-century Caribbean

By Iain Harris Published

News You can back Ahoy on Kickstarter now

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The Bureau of Fantastical & Arcane Affairs appearing in Future Games Show
Set the stage for the hero in narrative-driven exploration game The Bureau of Fantastical & Arcane Affairs

By Iain Harris Published

News Available to wishlist on Steam now

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Firefighting Simulator: Ignite appearing in Future Games Show
Firefighting Simulator: Ignite shows off co-op gameplay for the first time at Future Games Show Summer Showcase

By Iain Harris Published

Presented by Astragon

Brave perilous fires and save innocents with three friends or NPCs in this upcoming simulation game

Future Games Show Summer Showcase 2025 logo
How to the watch the Future Games Show Summer Showcase 2025

By Iain Harris Published

News You want stream links? We got 'em

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Mario Kart World screenshot showing Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Donkey Kong posing for the camera
Mario Kart World almost cut iconic items like the banana peel and green shell, because Nintendo wasn't sure if they still made "sense" in the Switch 2's new generation

By Iain Harris Published

News Thankfully, they survived

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The Witcher 4
Witcher 4 tech demo shows swapping to Unreal Engine was "worth it," CDPR says, and that "it's not like we lost things because of the transition" away from Cyberpunk 2077's RED Engine

By Iain Harris Published

News "Obviously, it was a well-thought-out decision to move over"

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Clair Obscur Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 publisher says GTA 6 and Rockstar can make ballooning AAA budgets and team sizes work, but "there's been a lot of irresponsible practices in the industry" from others who can't

By Iain Harris Published

News "There is a human cost to running things that way"

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Sciel, Marielle, Gustave, Lune, and Monoco approach the Paintress in the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 key art, cropped for our thumbnail
It's not just Final Fantasy and Persona – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is also inspired by my favorite JRPG gem Shadow Hearts, confirming a theory I've been sitting on for weeks

By Iain Harris Published

News Judgment Ring, is that you?

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Switch 2 launch games: a close-up of Mario and Luigi racing each other during Mario Kart World.
Nintendo says Mario Kart World isn't called Mario Kart 9 because simply adding more courses wasn't the plan "this time" – "We wanted to take the series to the next level"

By Iain Harris Published

News Mario Kart World has been cooking for eight years, and it shows

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Death Stranding 2
Death Stranding 2 technical director says that the jump from PS4 to PS5 "isn't so great," it's just "more efficient"

By Iain Harris Published

News "It’s more a case that on PS5 there are more efficient ways of arriving at similar goals"

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Final Fantasy 11 Beastmaster
Square Enix considered shutting down the original Final Fantasy MMO years ago, but the devs received "a lot of support" to keep it going

By Iain Harris Published

News Final Fantasy 11 owes plenty to its fans

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Final Fantasy 8 Remastered
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director's first experience playing a JRPG was getting stuck on Final Fantasy 8's first boss because he and his brother "couldn’t read"

By Iain Harris Published

News "The only thing we knew how to do was just auto-attack, which is really bad"

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 screenshot
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 boss clarifies no DLC is planned – instead, they're focusing on improving the base game

By Iain Harris Published

News The game's lead writer previously said "chances are good," but that's far from confirmation

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