Heather Wald is the Evergreen Editor for games at GamesRadar+. Her writing career began on a student-led magazine at Bath Spa University, where she earned a BA (Hons) in English literature. Heather landed her first role writing about tech and games for Stuff Magazine shortly after graduating with an MA in magazine journalism at Cardiff University. Now with almost seven years of experience working with GamesRadar+ on the features team, Heather helps to develop, maintain, and expand the evergreen features that exist on the site for games, as well as spearhead the Indie Spotlight series. You'll also see her contribute op-eds, interview-led features, and more. In her spare time, you'll likely find Heather tucking into RPGs and indie games, reading romance novels, and drinking lots of tea.
Latest articles by Heather Wald

25 Best free PC games to play in 2026
By Ali Jones last updated
Best list From 2XKO to Fortnite, the best free PC games of 2026 offer huge experiences in exchange for absolutely nothing

The best games to play on a laptop in 2026
By Jasmine Gould-Wilson last updated
Best List Read our list of the very best laptop games to play in 2026, where we've taken portability and performance into consideration

10 Best Call of Duty Games of All-Time
By Sam Loveridge last updated
Best List Here's how we rank the best Call of Duty games ever in 2026, from Black Ops 6 to Modern Warfare 2

The 15 best city building games to play in 2026
By Heather Wald last updated
Best List From Frostpunk 2 to Manor Lords, here's our list of the best city building games that will have you reaching for the skies

Studio head behind Fable reboot and Forza Horizon says "there are lots of commonalities" between racing games and RPGs
By George Young published
News "But there are lots and lots of points of divergence as well"

Hideo Kojima's OD: Everything we know so far
By Josh West last updated
Guide The latest OD news and updates from Hideo Kojima as we await more on the upcoming horror "experience"

The best Silent Hill games of all time, ranked
By Josh West last updated
Best List Ranking all the best Silent Hill games of all time that are worth playing before Silent Hill: Townfall drops

Fable "nicked" The Office's mockumentary-style interviews: "A lot of people assume we just did that for those trailers"
By Kaan Serin published
News "I've never seen it in games before, but it allows you a way to really neatly tell a joke or drop a little bit of character detail"

Fable doesn't have morphing and fans are divided: "It's what helped set Fable apart from other Middle Ages Western RPGs"
By Kaan Serin published
News Say goodbye to those devil horns and angelic halos

Fable's new morality system is "probably representative of how morality exists in the world that we live in today"
By Kaan Serin published
News "We've pursued a much more shades of gray approach to morality"

Fable lets you enter and buy any building because that was a requirement devs "took from the original games"
By Kaan Serin published
News Playground Games had to think about every building's interior and exterior

Why Playground Games' ambitious open-world Fable reboot is a fresh start for the series: "This has to be Playground's Fable"
By Heather Wald published
Exclusive Big in 2026 | Playground Games has been wanting to do "something other than Forza" for 10 years, and the Fable reboot feels like a match made in Albion

Mass Effect 5: Everything we know so far about the new BioWare adventure
By Heather Wald last updated
Features All the details on the new Mass Effect game - aka Mass Effect 5

The best Steam Deck games worth playing in 2026
By Emma-Jane Betts last updated
Best List From Baldur's Gate 3 to Stardew Valley, these are the 15 best Steam Deck games to play in 2026

Fable's "shades of gray approach to morality" directly ties into the RPG's living population
By Heather Wald published
Exclusive How Fable's approach to morality will shape some of the RPG's biggest choice and consequence innovations

Fable will let me romance nearly all of its 1000 NPCs "with a very few exceptions," Playground Games lead says
By Heather Wald published
News "You can talk to them, you can romance them, you can marry them. You can divorce them or be divorced by them"

Sorry, the Fable reboot doesn't feature a dog companion, Playground lead confirms
By Heather Wald published
News We won't be adventuring with a four-legged friend at our side in Fable

Fable isn't a sequel, Playground Games lead says, because "we needed to reboot the franchise" and "put our stamp on it"
By Heather Wald published
News "We needed to put our stamp on it and make it a Playground Fable game going forward"

How Fable's open world fantasy lets you meddle in the lives of over 1000 living NPCs
By Heather Wald published
Exclusive Big in 2026 | Fable is making a comeback after 16 years, and Playground Games' general manager Ralph Fulton takes GamesRadar+ through its most ambitious feature

Terminator Survivors: Everything we know so far
By Josh West last updated
Guide Your complete guide to the latest on the Terminator Survivors release date delay, trailer, and gameplay news

Best Xbox Series X games: The 25 greatest Xbox games to play in 2026
By Josh West last updated
Best List From Elden Ring to Gears 5, here are the best Xbox Series X games to play today

The best Animal Crossing: New Horizons villagers have been our faves since day one
By Oscar Taylor-Kent published
Best List Best List | Putting our paws together to celebrate our Animal Crossing faves

The 25 best PS3 games of all time
By Josh West last updated
Best List The best PS3 games that you should go back and replay today, from Dark Souls to The Last of Us
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