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

Everything announced at the PlayStation State of Play September 2025
By Josh West last updated
Live The PS5 State of Play delivered new looks at Saros and Marvel's Wolverine among the release date reveals and otherupdates

25 best shooters to play right now
By Josh West last updated
Feature From Valorant to Fortnite, the best shooter games will have you racking up points and decimating your foes

10 games like Dying Light 2 to play once you're done with Techland's latest
By Jordan Gerblick last updated
Best List Apocalypses and untamed open worlds await in these games like Dying Light to try out before you pick up The Beast

The 25 best heroes in games of all time
By Rachel Weber last updated
Best List Of all the video game heroes we've come to know and love, here are the top 25 most memorable

All upcoming Hideo Kojima games: Everything in development at Kojima Productions
By Josh West last updated
Upcoming From OD to Physint, there's no shortage of upcoming Hideo Kojima games heading to PS5 and Xbox Series X

Hideo Kojima's OD: Everything we know so far
By Josh West last updated
Feature The latest OD news and updates from Hideo Kojima as we await more on the upcoming horror "experience"

Best Assassin's Creed games, ranked from worst to best
By Louise Blain last updated
Best List Ranking all the best Assassin's Creed games to play in 2025 now that Shadows has entered the mix

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

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.

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

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

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 right now
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

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

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

Nearly 30 years ago, an RPG veteran walked away from Fallout 2 after just a few conversations – with The Outer Worlds 2, he's finally "doing a sequel to a game that I created the IP for"
By Issy van der Velde published
News "That is something that I have not had the chance to do before"

Capcom says that Resident Evil 9 will be "so-called 'old school Resident Evil'" in style, but its director teases a "new system" that creates a "complete roller coaster ride between the different aspects of the series"
By Josh West published
Interview Gamescom 2025 | We speak to Resident Evil Requiem's director and producer to learn how its horror was shaped by Biohazard, Village, and the Remakes
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