I'm a freelance games journalist who covers a bit of everything from reviews to features, and also writes gaming news for NME. I'm a regular contributor in print magazines, including Edge, Play, and Retro Gamer. Japanese games are one of my biggest passions and I'll always somehow find time to fit in a 60+ hour JRPG. While I cover games from all platforms, I'm very much a Switch lover, though also at heart a Sega shill. Favourite games include Bloodborne, Persona 5, Resident Evil 4, Ico, and Breath of the Wild.
Latest articles by Alan Wen

From Minecraft to The Last of Us Season 2, the best gaming adaptations of 2025 weren't lacking in variety
By Alan Wen published
Year in Review 2025 | The best gaming adaptations from 2025 to stream and catch on the big screen

The 5 best remakes of 2025 that revived the classics for a new generation
By Alan Wen published
Features Year in Review 2025 | The best remakes of 2025 focused on modernizing rather than totally overhauling the original blueprints

From Indiana Jones to Still Wakes the Deep, the best expansions of 2025 gave us new reasons to return to our favorites
By Alan Wen published
Year in Review Year in Review 2025 | This best expansions of 2025 provide new stories and challenges that make replaying old games feel fresh

From Skate to 2XKO, why wait when you can already play the best early access games of 2025
By Alan Wen published
Year in Review Year in Review 2025 | The year's best early access games are already fun and fueled with potential

Octopath Traveler 0 review: "The strongest entry in this retro-styled JRPG series yet, I love the greater focus on tactical battles"
By Alan Wen published
Review

I don't care if Intergalactic blasts past 2026, a new Naughty Dog cinematic action-adventure is reason enough to be excited
By Alan Wen published
Opinion Opinion | Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet could be a post-The Last of Us Naughty Dog's return to its brighter blockbuster era

Yakuza Kenzan remains a Japan exclusive, but Like a Dragon fans like me shouldn't skip this historical adventure for the ages
By Alan Wen published
Opinion Feature | Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan! remains a must-have PS3 import, even all these years on

Mecha Break review: "This mech battler makes up for lacking customization with a varied roster that lets me live out my Evangelion fantasy"
By Alan Wen published
Review

MindsEye review: "An uninspired and forgettable sci-fi action adventure that feels like a Netflix movie you watch while on your phone"
By Alan Wen published
Review

Deltarune review: "This Undertale successor is an unapologetically weird RPG epic, where each chapter is a new canvas that doesn't have to conform to any rigid rules, style, or logic"
By Alan Wen published
Review

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 review: "An old-school feeling JRPG as dynamic as Persona but with parry-filled battles as hard-won as Sekiro"
By Alan Wen published
Review

10 best Monster Hunter games of all-time, ranked
By Alan Wen last updated
Best List With Monster Hunter Wilds, now, erm, in the wild, we carve up the best Monster games in the franchise you can play right now

10 Games like Final Fantasy to play today if you love JRPGs and unforgettable stories
By Malindy Hetfeld last updated
Features From Chrono Trigger to Metaphor: ReFantazio, these are the best games like Final Fantasy to play today

10 Games like Zelda that are full of exploration and adventure
By Joe Donnelly last updated
Features After Breath of the Wild, try playing these best games like Zelda for more adventuring fun

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 review: "Even if some friction can lead to frustration, its realization of medieval life remains utterly absorbing"
By Alan Wen published
Review

With Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, Chinese studio Leenzee aims to soar to the heights of its field
By Alan Wen published
Features Interview | Set in the Ming Dynasty, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers brings a unique feathery twist to soulslike action RPGs

"With Arc Raiders, we wanted to lean into some of the contemporary conversations around robots and AI": Embark Studios talk creating an extraction shooter with bite
By Alan Wen published
Big in 2025 Big in 2025 | Starting from scratch in a post-post apocalypse overtaken by killing machines – how Arc Raiders combines our timely anxiety of robots and AI with '80s nostalgia for a new kind of extraction shooter

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a bigger, better historical medieval RPG that could do for the Czech Republic what The Witcher has done for Poland
By Alan Wen published
Big in 2025 | After its predecessor took you from peasant to knight, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's realistic medieval RPG begins by bringing you back to earth in beggar's garb

Indie devs discuss why low-poly works so well for horror: "I actually think those limitations encourage weird, unique compromises"
By Alan Wen published
Features Feature | The indie developers of Back In 1995, Fear The Spotlight, and Crow Country on channelling PS1-era aesthetics in horror games to create the perfect combination of nostalgia and dread

From Dragon Age: The Veilguard to Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, here's the best RPGs of 2024
By Alan Wen published
Year in Review Year in Review | The new golden age has some royal welcomes and returns – here’s the must-play RPGs of the year

From Fallout to Arcane, the best gaming adaptations of 2024 have been on the small screen
By Alan Wen published
Year In Review Year in Review | Here’s the must-watch game adaptations of the year you can binge now

How action led the way in Final Fantasy 16's bid to reinvent the long-running RPG series
By Alan Wen published
Interview Interview | Edge magazine explores the making of FF16 with the devs who brought it to life

After The Evil Within and GhostWire: Tokyo, here's how Ikumi Nakamura is breaking boundaries in a games studio "driven by passionate artists"
By Alan Wen published
Interview Interview | Edge sits down with artist-turned-studio head Ikumi Nakamura, CEO of Unseen Inc.

Yakuza 6: The Song Of Life is a bittersweet swansong for RGG's stoic Dragon that heralds a new beginning, for better or worse
By Alan Wen published
Opinion Opinion | "It would be a lie, however, to say that we don't relish the promise of another adventure with one of video games' greatest protagonists"
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