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

Aaron Paul's character Robert Robertson in Dispatch, stood holding a dog in an elevator filled with strange superheroes
Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul has "always wanted" to be in a game, but The Boys-esque superhero comedy Dispatch was the first truly irresistible role: "Nothing really felt like the right fit"

By Andrew Brown Published

Interview Interview | The Telltale-style game sees Aaron Paul play a hero-turned-dispatcher for an invisible asthmatic and a man-bat who does investment fraud

Interview
Atsu riding her horse in Ghost of Yotei with the black bars disabled
Ghost of Yotei's art director wanted the RPG to look like a "living painting," but the detail required stresses even me out: "When the wind blows, the trees know how strong the wind is"

By Andrew Brown Published

Interview Interview | Art director Joanna Wang takes us through designing one of the prettiest games ever made

Interview
A squad of four soldiers looking over a wrecked courtyard while a chopper lands in the Battlefield 6 campaign
Battlefield 6's campaign is rooted in silliness, but after playing through all 9 levels I wouldn't have it any other way

By Andrew Brown Published

Now Playing Now Playing | Diluting realism helps Battlefield 6 escape its real-world parallels

Now Playing
Strange energy spilling from the roof of a dilapidated mansion in Project Spectrum
Remember Evolve? The studio behind Delta Force certainly does, because it's making an Escape From Tarkov-style shooter where one player is a very hungry monster

By Andrew Brown Published

Preview Preview | In Project Spectrum, bringing tentacles to a gun fight isn't so bad

Preview
Warhammer 40K: Dark Heresy screenshot showing a group investigating a crime scene where a body lays on the ground and green lights shine on it
If Baldur's Gate 3 and Pentiment were blasted into space, you'd get Warhammer 40K: Dark Heresy – and after checking it out for an hour, I couldn't have plucked a better RPG from my dreams

By Andrew Brown Published

Preview Preview | The Elder Scrolls 6 who? If you loved Baldur's Gate 3, Dark Heresy should already be your most-anticipated game

Preview
Atsu riding her horse in Ghost of Yotei with the black bars disabled
How to remove the black bars in Ghost of Yotei while on your horse

By Andrew Brown Published

Guide Put the letterbox back in the box and see more of the screen as you ride

Guide
Soldiers running through a dark alleyway at night as an attack helicopter shoots at them from above
Battlefield 6's expanded Portal mode is so powerful that even its devs are having a blast: "Someone on the dev team actually created Pong"

By Andrew Brown Published

Interview Interview | Catching up with Ripple Effect to learn more about how players will be able to make their own Battlefield

Interview
Playing Ghost of Yotei and riding through an autumnal forest with red leaves
Ghost of Yotei review: "One of the first PS5 games to feel truly boundary-pushing, this hyper violent samurai revenge quest truly hooked me"

By Andrew Brown Published

Review

Review
A druid using Wild Shape in Baldur's Gate 3 to sit on a bench as a bear, while their party member lies in bed behind them
2 years after seeing an Owlbear crush a cultist in Baldur's Gate 3, I'm ditching my usual spellcasting builds to embrace the Wild Shape lifestyle in my first multiplayer campaign

By Andrew Brown Published

Now Playing Now Playing | Welcome back, Bear Gate 3

Now Playing
Borderlands 4 Vex Siren overview
Best Borderlands 4 Vex build and Siren powers

By Andrew Brown last updated

Guide

Guide
Borderlands 4 character selection screen
Which Borderlands 4 character should you play?

By Andrew Brown last updated

Guide Borderlands 4 has four Vault Hunter classes to choose at launch so pick a favorite

Guide
Fighting a Domination Engine in Borderlands 4
8 Borderlands 4 tips and tricks to help you survive Kairos

By Andrew Brown last updated

Guide Set yourself up for success to overthrow the Timekeeper with these Borderlands 4 tips and tricks

Guide
The Outer Worlds 2 screenshot showing a silhouette facing an eclipsed sun
As The Outer Worlds 2 embraces "crunchy" role-playing, its directors say people are "more open" to deeper RPGs after Baldur's Gate 3: "It's good to bring that stuff to the forefront again"

By Andrew Brown Published

Interview Big Preview | Obsidian is making the game it originally wanted The Outer Worlds to be, and returning to the studio's roots while doing it

Interview
Borderlands 4 tips picture showing enemies drawn into a singularity vortex while the player watches
Borderlands 4 does what Destiny couldn't: I'm finally back on the looter shooter train, and it feels like reliving my 60 hours in Borderlands 2

By Andrew Brown Published

Now Playing Now Playing | Maybe I've been the problem all along

Now Playing
A screenshot of a character looking bored during a cutscene in the trailer for Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave
September's Nintendo Direct told us a lot about the Switch 2's future, and I fear 2026 is the year I crack and buy another handheld

By Andrew Brown Published

Opinion Opinion | The foundations are only just coming together

Opinion
Claptrap from Borderlands 4 raising his arms in front of a banner that says "Welcom Recurits"
Borderlands 4 review: "Undeniably an excellent looter shooter, but one that requires a bit of tunnel vision to fully enjoy"

By Andrew Brown Published

Review

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Hollow Knight: Silksong
Hollow Knight Silksong has made me realize how much the Steam Deck has changed the way I play games

By Andrew Brown Published

Opinion Now Playing | Handheld Hornet is the best Hornet

Opinion
Hornet strikes at a red flow bud beneath her in Hollow Knight: Silksong in The Marrow
Hollow Knight Silksong has beat my ass for 11 hours, but it's not too hard – we just have a problem with instant gratification

By Andrew Brown Published

Opinion Opinion | We didn't always fly through games

Opinion
Hollow Knight Silksong
2 hours in, and Hollow Knight Silksong is already making me feel like I'm playing Dark Souls for the first time again

By Andrew Brown Published

Now Playing Now Playing | A stranger comes to town

Now Playing
James Bond smiling and looking off to the right in 007 First Light
"Everyone knows GoldenEye, it's a legendary game": 007 First Light boss says his goal is to make an all-timer James Bond game, even if the result is "very different" to Hitman

By Andrew Brown Published

Interview Gamescom 2025 | IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak explains how the studio tackled James Bond's origin story

Interview
The Outer Worlds 2 gameplay trailer screenshots
Outer Worlds 2 bosses "think it's funny" they've made an RPG about evil mega-corporations with Microsoft as their new owner: "It'd be ridiculous to say we don't notice that"

By Dustin Bailey Published

News "Regardless of who's funding it, we're still trying to tell that same message"

News
A mech firing a machine gun in the desert in Menace
Menace is an XCOM-Warhammer hybrid that makes turn-based strategy feel like an immersive sim, and for the first time in my life I'm playing a game that seems made for me

By Andrew Brown Published

Preview Gamescom 2025 | From the publisher behind Manor Lords comes a long-awaited substitute for playing XCOM 2 over and over again

Preview
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Legacy of the Forge DLC showing Henry and two allies standing looking down
I built a home and ran a business in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's next DLC, and the added role-playing guarantees I'll spend another 70 hours in my current game of the year

By Andrew Brown Published

Preview Gamescom 2025 | Build a life in Kuttenberg with daily quests, a customizable house, and yet another misadventure for poor Henry

Preview
The Outer Worlds 2 screenshot showing the group of companions we'll be adventuring with, surrounded the by the GamesRadar+ Big Preview banner, with an interview logo
We asked Obsidian about romance in The Outer Worlds 2, and now I'm a little hopeful the RPG may follow Avowed's example: "It truly does need to be something that's organic"

By Heather Wald Published

Interview Interview | "If it [romance] naturally kind of came up as a thing, sure, maybe we could talk about that, but it wasn't a goal from the very beginning"

Interview
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era artwork showing a beautiful fantasy city
Playing Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era has turned me into a Dungeon devotee, and I can't help but feel like I'm already seeing a strategy classic in the making

By Andrew Brown Published

Preview Gamescom 2025 | I would have spent all day playing Olden Era, if it wouldn't have cost me my job

Preview
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