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Freelance Writer

Justin was a GamesRadar+ staffer for 10 years but is now a freelance writer, musician and videographer. He's big on retro, Sega and racing games (especially retro Sega racing games) and currently also writes for Play Magazine, Traxion.gg, PC Gamer and TopTenReviews, as well as running his own YouTube channel. Having learned to love all platforms equally after Sega left the hardware industry (sniff), his favourite games include Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams, Zelda BotW, Sea of Thieves, Sega Rally Championship and Treasure Island Dizzy.

Latest articles by Justin Towell

Video game characters justify their Apple Watch purchase

By Justin Towell Published 24 April 15

Features

Three new characters join the party in Devil May Cry 4 on PS4 / XO

By Justin Towell Published 20 April 15

Preview

9 signs you're playing too much Bloodborne

By Justin Towell Published 15 April 15

Features

The best bunnies in games

By Justin Towell Published 5 April 15

Features

Sonic hates a lot of people

By Justin Towell Published 2 April 15

Features

Ride review

By Justin Towell Published 27 March 15

Review "Ride is a bit like healthy food. Cabbage, maybe. It isn't massively tasty, but it's been cooked proficiently and you feel like it's doing you good."

Review

9 old games that were made gloriously new again

By Justin Towell Published 26 March 15

Features

Sonic Boom's producer blames focus groups and over-ambition for game's failure

By Justin Towell Published 19 March 15

News

BBC encourages new generation of coders with free microcomputer

By Justin Towell Published 13 March 15

News

3D OutRun finally gets a Western release date on 3DS

By Justin Towell Published 6 March 15

News

Borderlands: The Handsome Collection's 4-player split-screen is ace

By Justin Towell Published 5 March 15

Preview

Valve and HTC's VR headset revealed, supports body tracking

By Justin Towell Published 2 March 15

News

Dead or Alive 5: Last Round review

By Justin Towell Published 27 February 15

Review

Top 100: Why OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast still feels SO good

By Justin Towell Published 27 February 15

Editorial

Even more of gaming's most cringeworthy pick-up lines

By Justin Towell, David Roberts Published 11 February 15

Features

New Nintendo 3DS review

By Justin Towell Published 4 February 15

Review

Why Project CARS' realism actually makes it more fun

By Justin Towell Published 30 January 15

Editorial

Why Sonic should be retired - by the last person who cared

By Justin Towell Published 28 January 15

Editorial

These Driveclub photos will blow your mind

By Justin Towell Published 22 January 15

Features

The astonishing evolution of the S-shaped Tetromino

By Justin Towell Published 20 January 15

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10 bold Nintendo predictions for 2015

By Justin Towell Published 9 January 15

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We made 10 bold Microsoft predictions for 2014. How did we do?

By Justin Towell Published 5 January 15

Features Microsoft's new console is with us and we're ready for things to start happening for it in 2014. But what sort of things? Let's do away with the waiting and have a crack at guessing instead...

Features