Articles by Joe Donnelly, Features Editor, GamesRadar+

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Joe is a Features Editor at GamesRadar+. With over five years of experience working in specialist print and online journalism, Joe has written for a number of gaming, sport and entertainment publications including PC Gamer, Edge, Play and FourFourTwo. He is well-versed in all things Grand Theft Auto and spends much of his spare time swapping real-world Glasgow for GTA Online’s Los Santos. Joe is also a mental health advocate and has written a book about video games, mental health and their complex intersections. He is a regular expert contributor on both subjects for BBC radio. Many moons ago, he was a fully-qualified plumber which basically makes him Super Mario.

Articles by: Joe Donnelly

5 games we want to see at Summer Game Fest 2023

By Joe Donnelly published 2 June 23

FEATURE Opinion | Summer Game Fest is around the corner – here are some games we'd love to see show face

The System Shock remake is a surprisingly massive win for video game preservation

By Joe Donnelly published 1 June 23

Feature Opinion | The System Shock remake offers a tentative, if elaborate, solution to the video games preservation problem

Bungie's Marathon looks the part, but do we really need another extraction shooter?

By Joe Donnelly published 26 May 23

FEATURE Opinion | I'm pretty burned out on extraction shooters, but if anyone can change my mind it's Bungie

Phantom Blade Zero is the perfect post-Elden Ring tonic I've been waiting for

By Joe Donnelly published 25 May 23

Feature Opinion | With flavors of Sekiro, Souls and Sifu, Phantom Blade Zero is already one for the future

If you think the Metal Gear Solid 3 remake reveal was too cheesy you weren't there the first time around

By Joe Donnelly published 25 May 23

Feature Opinion | The Metal Gear Solid 3 remake reveal was awful and awesome, and I wouldn't have had it any other way

I thought Spider-Man 2 couldn't match the first game – it took less than 10 seconds to change my mind

By Joe Donnelly published 25 May 23

Feature Opinion | Symbiote Spider-Man and a trip to the suburbs helped stick the landing

Spider-Man 2's spectacle looks amazing, but I want to see more of its GTA 5-style character switching

By Joe Donnelly published 25 May 23

Feature Opinion | If it's tied to story set-pieces that's cool, but I'd love to switch between characters on the fly

Sony simply turning up at the PlayStation Showcase will keep Xbox on the ropes

By Joe Donnelly published 24 May 23

OPINION Opinion | Keeping things simple at the PlayStation Showcase will be a huge success for Sony

PlayStation Showcase predictions: What to expect from the hour-long PS5 and PSVR2 event

By Joe Donnelly published 23 May 23

Feature Opinion | With a focus on PS5 and PSVR2 games, here's what we want and expect from the May 24 show

Educating, informing, and securing safe spaces – our Mental Health Awareness Week roundup

By Joe Donnelly published 21 May 23

Feature Mental Health Awareness Week | Catch-up on all of GamesRadar's MHA Week content from this week

From grand retreats to Grand Theft Auto, walking (and talking) simulators can help offset anxiety

By Joe Donnelly published 20 May 23

Feature Mental Health Awareness Week | These games prove talking, and walking, helps

Horror games can terrify without tropes, and this game about historical cruelty proves it

By Joe Donnelly published 19 May 23

FEATURE Mental Health Awareness Week | The Town of Light is a horrifying ordeal that eschews tropes and stereotypes to great effect

This terrifying horror game about OCD helped me understand conditions different to my own

By Joe Donnelly published 18 May 23

FEATURE Mental Health Awareness Week | Neverending Nightmares illustrates the uglier side of OCD as it aims to enlighten and inform

No GTA 6 trailer, but the Take Two earnings report all but confirms the GTA 6 release window

By Joe Donnelly published 18 May 23

OPINION Opinion | Take-Two's latest earnings report appears to confirm when we might expect GTA 6

Outlast's greatest achievement isn't its poop-your-pants horror, it's staying relevant for a decade

By Joe Donnelly published 17 May 23

Feature Opinion | On the cusp of The Outlast Trials' introduction to Early Access, it's worth remembering the series' roots

Getting help is hard – these games helped me make first contact with mental health professionals

By Joe Donnelly published 17 May 23

FEATURE Mental Health Awareness Week | These two games from Eli Piilonen are simple but so, so effective

Actual Sunlight, a game about an everyman struggling with depression, changed my life

By Joe Donnelly published 16 May 23

Feature Mental Health Awareness Week | Actual Sunlight is a relevant now as it was 10 years ago

It's Mental Health Awareness Week – here's my video games and mental health story

By Joe Donnelly published 15 May 23

FEATURE Mental Health Awareness Week | This week, May 15-21, we're talking about video games and mental health

Redfall proves it's time to press pause on tired squad-based shooters

By Joe Donnelly published 11 May 23

OPINION Opinion | Are squad shooters still connecting with players?

The Hollow Knight Silksong delay underlines the importance of communication

By Joe Donnelly published 10 May 23

OPINION Opinion | As if it wasn't obvious before, the most important part of Silksong's delay is dialogue

My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure

Everyone should introduce at least one person to video games in their lifetime

By Joe Donnelly published 9 May 23

Feature Sharing the virtues of video games can be a wonderful feeling

I've played over 2000 hours of GTA Online and, somehow, have only just discovered this handy grenade trick

By Joe Donnelly published 9 May 23

FEATURE Worse still, I'm now down the rabbit hole of other things I might have missed

The Last Case of Benedict Fox review: "A detective Metroidvania that's its own conundrum"

By Joe Donnelly published 4 May 23

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I found my original 26-year-old copy of the best Simpsons game, and it still rocks

By Joe Donnelly published 3 May 23

FEATURE "Seedy ROM": Having the best time with the best Simpsons game a quarter of a century later

After Us is like Journey meets Inside with a splash of Dark Souls in an apocalypse of our own doing

By Joe Donnelly published 3 May 23

FEATURE Hands-on | The follow-up to Arise: A Simple Story is almost here, and it's great

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