Oscar Taylor-Kent

Oscar Taylor-Kent

Games Editor

Games Editor Oscar Taylor-Kent brings his years of Official PlayStation Magazine and PLAY knowledge to the fore. A noted PS Vita apologist, he's also written for Edge, PC Gamer, SFX, Official Xbox Magazine, Kotaku, Waypoint, and more. When not dishing out deadly combos in Ninja Gaiden 4, he's a fan of platformers, RPGs, mysteries, and narrative games. A lover of retro games as well, he's always up for a quick evening speed through Sonic 3 & Knuckles or yet another Jakathon through Naughty Dog's PS2 masterpieces.

Latest articles by Oscar Taylor-Kent

Key art for The Sinking City 2, showing Calvin Rafferty looking over his shoulder as he's up to his knees in water, handgun in hand. Tentacles wrap around him from the water as he looks across Arkham.

After 2 hours, this new Lovecraftian horror game feels like a faithful mashup of Resident Evil and Silent Hill

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

Hands-on Hands-on | The Sinking City 2 splices together great survival horror mechanics to create something truly gruesome, and its detective-like twist is keeping me hooked

Hands-on
Rindo looking up at a red sky scared during one of the best games like Persona 5, NEO: The World Ends with You

10 Games like Persona 5 you should play next

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

Best List From Fire Emblem to Demonschool, these games like Persona 5 will take you on adventures of a lifetime

Best List
Nathan Drake looks at some ruins as Sam watches, in Uncharted 4, from the PS5's Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection

10 years later, Uncharted 4 remains the perfect antidote to overly bleak and serious adventuring

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

Opinion Opinion | Uncharted 4 is an all-timer with too little competition – sometimes I want popcorn gaming instead of a misery fest

Opinion
Bond peeks around a corner at a guard in 007 First Light

007 First Light's License to Kill system adds nuance to its escalating action as "Bond won't shoot an unarmed man"

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

Interview Interview | Senior combat designer Tom Marcham talks License to Kill, Bond's improvisational combat, and getting over 70 years of legacy to work in game form for 007 First Light

Interview
An older Makoto wars a hat and glasses, with neon lights behind him in Stranger Than Heaven

Stranger Than Heaven offers the grounded refresh I've been desperate to see from Yakuza RPGs for years

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

Opinion Opinion | Stranger Than Heaven is a historical crime caper, and a needed grittier direction for the Yakuza developer

Opinion
James Bond in 007 First Light eavesdrops on guards while on his phone

007 First Light's Bond is more "relatable" than Agent 47, says developer, "rather than an object of absurd fascination"

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

Interview Interview | Rasmus Poulsen discusses the similarities and differences between 007 First Light and Hitman, and finding a younger Bond's humanity

Interview
Lies of P key art showing protagonist P holding a sword

10 Best Soulslike games of all time

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

Best List From Bloodborne to Lies of P, the best Soulslike games deliver worlds worth fighting through

Best List
Evan and the rulers of other kingdoms holding up their swords in celebration during the family friendly RPG, Ni no Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom

10 Best RPGs for kids to play in 2026

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

Best List From Pokemon to Final Fantasy, here are the best quests for getting used to the genre, or for young adventurers looking to level up

Best List
An antagonist with a regal mask in 007 First Light has an RPG slung over their shoulder

007 First Light isn't about mowing down foes because "it's important that every encounter feels crunchy and dangerous"

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

Interview Interview | Rasmus Poulsen talks building grounded James Bond action for 007 First Light

Interview
A screenshot of James Bond in 007 First Light's reveal trailer.

007 First Light: Everything we know so far about IO Interactive's new Bond game

By Bradley Russell, Oscar Taylor-Kent last updated

Guide 007 First Light is the James Bond origin story you've been waiting for – shaken, not stirred

Guide
James Bond in 007 First Light chats with a bartender

007 First Light hands-on: "With explosive action and creative spycraft, this might be the best Bond game yet"

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

Hands-on Hands-on | This young James Bond adventure packs plenty of action, with lots of ways to get creative with your spy kit

Hands-on
Two minotaurs ready their weapons on a battlefield, from the Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era opening cinematic

Heroes of Might and Magic Olden Era early access review: "The legendary strategy RPG series finally reclaims its throne"

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

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in Aphelion

Aphelion review: "Life is Strange creator's Uncharted-like sci-fi adventure fails to land"

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

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Review
Princess Peach waving from the window of a castle in Super Mario RPG

10 Best short RPGs to play in 2026

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

Best List From Undertale to Shadowrun, these snappy RPG adventures can be finished relatively quickly, but will stick with you for life

Best List
A group of soldiers at a camping site looking at Henry during the RPG Kingdom Come Deliverance 2

The 10 best first-person RPGs to play in 2026

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

Best List From Skyrim to Cyberpunk 2077, discover the best first-person RPGs to play right now with our curated list

Best List
Maruder leader Obin threatens to cut off one of the player's fingers with a big knife, in Tides of Tomorrow

Tides of Tomorrow is a watery, plastic apocalypse take on Fallout that's more about story choices than RPG numbers

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

Now Playing Now Playing | Big, decisive moments of choice make this end-of-the-world adventure feel like Fallout without the RPG

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A group of blue fairies block the view of a billboard that says Titanium Court, each with expressive faces including the lead who peers over sunglasses

Titanium Court review: "Balatro meets Blue Prince in this roguelike match-three RTS that's been massaging my brain"

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

Review

Review
Eyla talks to the player in a colorful, collapsed structure in Tides of Tomorrow

Tides of Tomorrow review: "Your choices in this microplastics apocalypse are shaped by other players"

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

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Review
The Big Preview frame for Star Wars: Galactic Racer, showing space ships flying through a white space

Star Wars: Galactic Racer – The Big Preview

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

Big Preview Big Preview | Lucasfilm and Fuse Games on tackling Star Wars' iconic locales to craft the ultimate sci-fi tracks, the allure of podracing, and more

Big Preview
Noah holds the rim of his diving suit and screams, bubbles spewing forth, as a tentacled monster stares at him from behind in key art for Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss, cropped for use as a header image

Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss review: "This Lovecraftian horror challenges my detective skills in the best ways"

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

Review

Review
A header image for the Best Games 2026 list with a GamesRadar+ logo, showing Resident Evil Requiem, Pragmata, Marathon, and Monster Hunter Stories 3

The best games to play in 2026, so far

By Oscar Taylor-Kent last updated

Best List From Resident Evil Requiem to Pokemon Pokopia, here's the 8 best games of 2026 to play across PlayStation, Xbox, PC, and Nintendo Switch 2

Best List
A crocodile skeleton in a suit sits in front of a curved piano in Moves of the Diamond Hand

Moves of the Diamond Hand is my favorite dice-rolling RPG since Disco Elysium, and it's somehow even weirder

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

Now Playing Now Playing | This wonderfully weird RPG is like if Deus Ex collided with a clown car

Now Playing
Santana uses CAPTCHA on Mesa's face in Prove You're Human

"The real world is always way more dank than we anticipate," Prove You're Human's creative director tells me

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

Interview Interview | Sunset Visitor's Remy Siu talks AI in sci-fi, CAPTCHA as a game mechanic, and tackling FMV in Prove You're Human

Interview
Mesa, a face on a robotic arm, side-eyes the camera in Prove You're Human

Some of the best writers making games today decided to form a publisher "an hour" after a call

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

News Black Tabby Publishing exists because Slay the Princess "made a lot of money"

News
Key art for Neopets: Mega Mini-Games Collection - The Neopian Arcade Odyssey showing colorful creatures against a blue background

This Neopets mini-game collection proves it's actually good to preserve bad games

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

Now Playing Now Playing | Neopets: Mega Mini-Games Collection offers something beyond janky revivals of online Flash games – it's a portal to my own past that's been a joy to revisit

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