Andrew Brown

Andrew Brown

Features Editor

Andy Brown is the Features Editor of Gamesradar+, where he shares a lifelong love of games with delightful readers - that's you!

From strategy games to RPGs and shooters, Andy dabbles in a bit of everything. Just don't get him started on Total War, or his delightful two huskies.

Latest articles by Andrew Brown

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 character Henry wounded
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 devs know you don't need "tens of millions of players" - only "a bunch of really engaged people"

By Jordan Gerblick Published

News "I honestly believe there's big potential for original ideas that, if they were given a chance to be polished, could reach mainstream"

News
A farmer standing in front of a distant town in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 devs wanted negative feedback after deciding players should initially "feel extremely weak"

By Ashley Bardhan Published

News Necessary evils

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News
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 screenshot with orange GamesRadar+ Best of 2025 badge in upper right
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 developers made my favorite RPG of 2025 by trusting their original vision: "We had the strength to say, 'Yes, that's what we want'"

By Andrew Brown Published

Year in Review Year in Review 2025 | Warhorse chats to GamesRadar+ about sticking to the studio's guns and what comes next

Year in Review
Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic screenshot showing the silhouette of a Jedi wearing a cape
Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic needs to put being an RPG before being a Star Wars game

By Andrew Brown Published

Opinion Opinion | It seems like we have a spiritual successor to Knights of the Old Republic on our hands

Opinion
Artwork of Total War: Warhammer 40,000 showing a Space Marine, Orc, and Aeldar fighting on top of a mound of corpses
Total War: Warhammer 40,000 big preview: Inside Creative Assembly's ambition to develop "the seminal Warhammer 40K game"

By Andrew Brown Published

Exclusive Big Preview | Creative Assembly isn't shying away from having to tackle an entire galaxy, the studio tells GamesRadar+

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A medieval town with a cathedral and thatched houses in Total War: Medieval 3 concept art
Total War's new engine will power Medieval 3, put the series on console, and let mods thrive: "We're playing long-term"

By Andrew Brown Published

Big Preview Big Preview | Core tech director Roberto Geroli and art tech director Ellie Koorlander explain how Warcore will benefit the average Total War player

Big Preview
Emperor Karl Franz from Total War: Warhammer 3's Immortal Empires campaign, staring head-on in full armor
Total War: Warhammer 3 devs sell you on their favorite faction and explain why Karl Franz is Immortal Empires' Doomguy

By Andrew Brown Published

Big Preview Big Preview | Creative Assembly's massive Immortal Empires campaign can now be played in any Total War: Warhammer game. Who better to help pick your starting faction than their creators?

Big Preview
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 protagonist Henry standing alongside a noble with a tower in the background
Despite censorship woes and the terrifying price of RAM, 2025 was the year I fell back in love with PC gaming

By Andrew Brown Published

Year in Review Year in Review 2025 | Reconnecting with the games that brought me to PC in the first place

Year in Review
An army attacks a fortified wall with a smoking breach in Total War: Three Kingdoms
The most influential Total War games, as chosen by 8 of its developers: "The team is incredibly introspective about our successes and failures"

By Andrew Brown Published

Big Preview Big Preview | When it comes to Total War's legacy, who better to pick the biggest hitters than their creators?

Big Preview
A ghostly green Nagash rising in front of the Black Pyramid in Total War: Warhammer 3 DLC Lords of the End Times
Lords of the End Times will give Nagash "the podium that he deserves," says Total War: Warhammer 3 devs, but don't expect your campaign to survive the Great Necromancer's arrival

By Andrew Brown Published

Big Preview Big Preview | Catching up with Creative Assembly to discuss the creation of Nagash and how the End Times will affect our campaigns

Big Preview
A beautiful Mediterranean coastal fortress as depicted in concept art for Total War: Medieval 3
"Medieval 3 is, in some sense, our Half-Life 3" – Total War: Medieval 3 is finally in the works, and Creative Assembly is leaning on immersion to make it worth the 19-year wait

By Andrew Brown Published

Interview Big Preview | Aiming for the "rebirth of historical Total War," Medieval 3's directors discuss their priorities and why the long-awaited strategy game is being announced so early

Interview
A king on horseback overlooking an army camped outside of a fortified city in concept art for Total War: Medieval 3, framed with The Big Preview branding from GamesRadar+
With 25 years of Total War under its belt, the future of Creative Assembly's iconic strategy series looks brighter than ever: "We've got the best roadmap we've ever had"

By Andrew Brown Published

The Big Preview The Big Preview | In exclusive interviews with GamesRadar+, Creative Assembly leads talk Total War: Medieval 3, lessons learned from the Total War: Warhammer trilogy, and much more

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The Big Preview
A screenshot showing the ritual of Nagash from Total War: Warhammer 3 as shown in the Total War 25th Anniversary Showcase
Everything announced at the Total War 25th Anniversary Showcase

By Josh West Published

Features The Big Preview | Total War: Medieval 3 is in the works, the End Times are coming to Warhammer 3, and a new engine are all the stars of this showcase

Features
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond screenshot showing Samus Aran in a hero pose after disembarking her ship
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – Everything you need to know about the new Switch game

By Heather Wald last updated

Guide Metroid Prime 4 is finally here, so here's everything you need to know before buying it for yourself!

Guide
A spooky necromancer's city with a green sky in Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era
As Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era soars, Hooded Horse boss Tim Bender says passion-publishing trumps chasing money: "Why would anyone want to work with you if not for total lack of choice?"

By Andrew Brown Published

Interview Interview | "Big viral hits don't really define what an indie publisher is"

Interview
Looking at a radio and a typewriter while holding a walkie-talkie in Radiolight
Radiolight channels Twin Peaks and Alan Wake for a late night walk in the woods, and I'm amazed a solo developer crammed so much atmosphere into this secret horror game

By Andrew Brown Published

Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | There's something very, very strange in these old woods

Indie Spotlight
Battlefield 6
This is my formal apology to Battlefield 6's most misunderstood class: I'm sorry, I wasn't really familiar with your game

By Andrew Brown Published

Opinion Opinion | But I'm still not giving HQ campers a pass

Opinion
Two nobles getting married in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
RPG fans stay winning: 2025 has been a critical hit for the genre, though I'm anticipating a GOTY bloodbath

By Andrew Brown Published

Opinion Opinion | This year proved that no matter what type of RPG you crave, there's room for everyone

Opinion
Arc Raiders
Arc Raiders' studio founder is an enemy health bar hater, saying they turn games into an "Excel sheet" and immersion is better than "answers served on a silver platter"

By Andrew Brown Published

Interview Interview | Why doesn't Arc Raiders have enemy health bars? Embark Studios founder Stefan Strandberg gets something off his chest (and head)

Interview
Arc Raiders survivors in metal and fabric armor
Arc Raiders gives Escape from Tarkov a run for its money, and the secret is making the shooter feel like an RPG that you can "almost play as a single-player game"

By Andrew Brown Published

Interview Interview | Embark Studios founder and chief creative officer Stefan Strandberg explains how Arc Raiders beats the "Excel sheet" allegations

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Interview
A screenshot of the upcoming Xbox Series X game, Arc Raiders.
Arc Raiders devs "don’t use generative AI," CCO says AI text-to-speech is used to help "make rich worlds" while keeping the studio small but "there's no end goal in replacing any actors"

By Kaan Serin Published

News Arc Raiders uses AI TTS similarly to The Finals, in combination with real actors

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News
The Outer Worlds 2 screenshot showing the town of Farfield on Paradise Island, with GamesRadar+ On The Radar branding on the side
The Outer Worlds 2's first area is all about nailing Obsidian's "hardcore RPG feel" – which you can trace back to New Vegas, Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines, and the first Fallout

By Andrew Brown Published

Interview On the Radar | Creative director Leonard Boyarsky and art director Daniel Alpert explain how the first Outer Worlds' unrealized vision laid the perfect foundations for Paradise Island

Interview
Players dropping into Battlefield Redsec in front of the circle of fire
Battlefield Redsec is out now, and I'm relieved to say EA's battle royale stays true to Battlefield instead of pinching too much from Warzone or Fortnite

By Andrew Brown Published

News A class-based battle royale with Battlefield 6's destruction and a one-hit-kill circle? Oh, go on then

News
Battlefield 6 multiplayer screenshot
I'm convinced Support is the strongest class in Battlefield 6, and I've spent 20 hours playing the FPS like a strategy game because of it

By Andrew Brown Published

Opinion Opinion | Keep your rockets, Engineers

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Opinion
Wind Waker
As The Legend of Zelda's 40th anniversary looms, I'm begging Nintendo to stop ignoring its greatest run of Zelda games and make this generation's Ocarina of Time

By Andrew Brown Published

Opinion Opinion | When has Zelda ever moved in a straight line?

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