Latest articles by Josh West
GamesRadar+ Summer Preview: The biggest games of Summer Game Fest 2025
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The GR+ Summer Preview for 2025 is your portal into the biggest video games shown off this summer
How Obsidian became Xbox's most prolific studio: "There's not a lot of studios at Microsoft that have an entire external developer making the whole game for them"
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Exclusive | There's a reason 2025 is being called the "Year of Obsidian"
I think the ROG Xbox Ally X can tell us a surprising amount about the "next-generation of Xbox"
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As Play Anywhere takes center stage, the future of Xbox has never been clearer: "Our plan is to keep making amazing games and have them reach as many players as we can"
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Exclusive | Inside Xbox Play Anywhere
After 4 hours with Borderlands 4 I'm not yet sold on its biggest changes, but Gearbox says "it would be strange" if Borderlands wasn't "constantly growing and adapting"
Preview Summer Preview | "Less borders, more lands" is the driving Borderlands 4 to new heights, but I'm not sure all of them landing as intended
Diving into Gears of War: Reloaded's chaotic multiplayer servers is like being wrapped in a warm blanket lined with sandpaper
Preview Summer Preview | The Coalition has done an exceptional job of breathing new life into 2006's Gears of War, but in 2025 its multiplayer isn't going to be for everyone
Grounded 2 is targeting updates every "four to five months" after Obsidian learned the hard way: "When we started with Grounded 1 in early access we were trying to do monthly updates – that was a hassle and it didn't work"
Feature Summer Preview | Obsidian Entertainment details the lessons learned after its first early access adventure, and how it changed the studio's approach to Grounded 2
With The Outer Worlds 2, Obsidian is dedicated to making sneaky playstyles truly viable: "We have a strike team going room-by-room to see if we can stealth properly through each location"
Feature Summer Preview | The improvements to stealth in The Outer Worlds 2 reflect the effort Obsidian is putting into creating an RPG that's reactive to your decisions
Obsidian won't rule out bringing Grounded 2 to PS5 in the future, but says that its initial release is "all about being in Game Preview and Early Access"
Feature Summer Preview | Grounded was a success on PS5 and Switch, so why isn't its sequel following in its footsteps? We speak to Obsidian to learn more
Everything is bigger in Grounded 2, but Obsidian never considered stretching beyond four-player co-op: "It would have undermined what Grounded was really about"
Feature Summer Preview | Our bite-sized preview of Grounded 2 continues as Obsidian gives us exclusive insight into how it scaled up beyond the backyard
After playing The Outer Worlds 2, I'm convinced that it has the potential to be Obsidian's greatest game – and the best FPS of 2025
Summer Preview | The Outer Worlds was a fun sci-fi adventure, but its sequel is shaping up to be something truly special
After playing Grounded 2 for 30 minutes, it's clear that my favorite survival game is getting a massive glow-up
Summer Preview | Obsidian Entertainment and Eidos Montreal has found big solutions to the smallest problems
Ninja Gaiden 4 hands-on: PlatinumGames and Team Ninja are cooking up something pretty special in this bloody and brutal return to form
Summer Preview 2025 | It's been over 20 years since Team Ninja dragged this franchise back from the dead, and there's still plenty of life to it yet
Playing Gears of War: Reloaded on PS5 is exceptionally surreal, especially in online co-op with a player on Xbox Series X
Summer Preview 2025 | The Coalition has remastered Gears of War again, and there's never been a better way to experience the adventure
The Outer Worlds 2 gets an October release date as Obsidian opens pre-orders and confirms that 2 story expansions are on their way
News All of that, and so much more
Gears of War: E-Day is being pitched as the ultimate 20th anniversary present as The Coalition locks in a 2026 release window
News We also got to see Gears of War: Reloaded in action for the first time
Gears of War Reloaded is getting several weekend-long betas for pre-order buyers "to really test at scale the cross-platform play experience" and "make sure that the servers are ready for big numbers"
News Pre-orders are open now
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 announced: the first consecutive release in the series gets a 2025 release window, is set 40 years after Black Ops 6, and brings back campaign co-op
News And that's just the start
Surprise! Obsidian is making Grounded 2, and it's launching into Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview next month
News Honey, Obsidian shrunk the kids… again
Don't tell Microsoft it's the Nintendo Switch 2 launch week, because it just announced two Xbox handhelds
News The ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X launch this year
I'm not saying I regret buying a Nintendo Switch 2, but the ROG Xbox Ally X is almost everything I want from an Xbox handheld
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With its first handheld, Xbox's 'Play Anywhere' strategy is coming into sharper focus
Elden Ring Nightreign: Everything you need to know
Guide Soulslike meets roguelike in Elden Ring: Nightreign, the new FromSoftware epic that's now released
