Josh West joined GamesRadar+ in 2018 as its Features Editor, and now serves as the website's Editor-in-Chief. He previously worked as Deputy Editor of games™ magazine. Josh's writing has appeared in 3D Artist, Edge, Gamesmaster, iCreate, Metal Hammer, Official Xbox Magazine, Official PlayStation Magazine, Play, Retro Gamer, SciFi Now, and SFX. In his youth, he performed background roles in movies like Harry Potter and TV shows like The League of Gentlemen. With over 15 years of industry experience, you are most likely to find Josh leveraging his expertise in action-adventure games, MMOs, RPGs, and shooters to bring the readers of GR+ closer to the video games that they truly care about.
Latest articles by Josh West

The 25 best Sonic games of all time
By Josh West last updated
Best List From classics to modern takes, the best Sonic games showcase the blue hedgehog's most memorable antics

The 25 best strategy games to play in 2025
By Heather Wald last updated
Best List Plan your victory in the best strategy games of all time, from XCOM 2 to Into the Breach

The 10 best Call of Duty games of all-time
By Sam Loveridge last updated
Best Black Ops 6 gives the best Call of Duty games a run for their money

Skate 4 trailer, Early Access release, and everything else we know
By Josh West last updated
Guide Skate, aka Skate 4, is currently out in Early Access from developer Full Circle, and here's everything we know right now, from gameplay details to news.

Star Wars Eclipse: Everything we know so far
By Josh West last updated
Feature Venture into the High Republic era in Star Wars Eclipse, an upcoming game from the studio that brought us Detroit: Become Human

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – Everything we know so far about the upcoming Switch game
By Heather Wald last updated
Guide Metroid Prime 4 finally got a release date for the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, and Samus' return looks well worth the wait

The best Borderlands games, ranked
By Alex Avard last updated
Best List Get ready for Borderlands 4 with the best Borderlands games, ranked by how much we love them

The 10 best Games like Borderlands to play right now
By Jordan Oloman, Luke Kemp last updated
Best List From Helldivers 2 to Risk of Rain, here are the best games like Borderlands to play today

Borderlands 4: Everything you need to know about Gearbox's latest looter shooter
By Heather Wald last updated
Guide Borderlands 4 is here on PC and consoles, with the Switch 2 debut coming in October

10 best Far Cry games of all-time, ranked
By David Meikleham last updated
Best List With Far Cry 6 and its expansions released, we explore the best Far Cry games you can play right now

Perfect Dark: Everything we know about the canceled Xbox exclusive
By Josh West last updated
Guide The Perfect Dark reboot from The Initiative and Crystal Dynamics was canceled in 2025

The 10 best Star Wars games to play in 2025
By Josh West last updated
Best List From Star Wars Outlaws to The Old Republic, here's the best Star Wars games you should play right now

Ark 2: Everything we know so far
By Josh West last updated
Guide With "late 2024" now in the rearview mirror, we're sorry to report that there is no updated Ark 2 release date in sight

The 25 best PS1 games of all time
By Nick Thorpe last updated
Best List Let's wind back the years to look at the 25 best PS1 games from Sony's ground-breaking games console

BioShock 4: Everything we know so far
By Heather Wald last updated
Guide A complete guide to all the latest news details for BioShock 4

If 20 years and a Metal Gear Solid Delta playthrough have taught me anything, it's that Snake Eater remains one of the greatest, stupidest games ever made
By Josh West published
Opinion Now Playing | After 20 years, one of the wildest tales in gaming is validated once more

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

Hollow Knight Silksong: Everything we know so far
By Hirun Cryer last updated
Guide Hollow Knight Silksong is out now, officially

The ROG Xbox Ally X offers an early glimpse into Xbox's plans for AI, but I'm starting to worry that we're all going to be priced out of ever trying them
By Josh West published
Opinion With little under two months until the ROG Xbox Ally X is set to release, it's a shame there's still no price or pre-order info

10 Games like Hollow Knight to play while you wait for Silksong
By Samuel Horti, Miri Teixeira last updated
Best List Silksong is almost here, but these games like Hollow Knight will keep you busy before and after you play Team Cherry's latest

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle director says gameplay has been one of the most "challenging aspects" of development because even Wolfenstein was "very linear"
By Scott McCrae published
News "The DLC kind of still reflects that"

The 10 best superhero games that you should play today
By Josh West last updated
Best List From Batman: Arkham to Marvel's Spider-Man 2, here's our pick of the best superhero games that you should play today

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle devs love feedback, but will stick to their guns when it comes to game direction: "Yeah, but no thanks, because we already have a very good idea that we believe in"
By Kaan Serin published
News "What is it we want to do? What's the story we want to tell?"

Todd Howard apparently "rolled his eyes" at the thought of Troy Baker playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle's protagonist, but the game's lead says it "wouldn't have been what it is" without the Last of Us star
By Catherine Lewis published
News Troy Baker is "always fantastic to work with," says Axel Torvenius
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