Iain Harris

Iain Harris

News Editor, Games

I joined GamesRadar+ in May 2022 following stints at PCGamesN and PocketGamer.Biz, with some freelance for Kotaku UK, RockPaperShotgun, and VG24/7 thrown in for good measure. When I'm not running the news team on the games side, you'll find me putting News Editor duties to one side to play the hottest JRPG of 20 years ago or pillaging the depths of Final Fantasy 14 for a swanky new cloak – the more colourful, the better.

Latest articles by Iain Harris

Mario Kart World screenshot showing Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Donkey Kong posing for the camera
Mario Kart World almost cut iconic items like the banana peel and green shell, because Nintendo wasn't sure if they still made "sense" in the Switch 2's new generation

By Iain Harris Published

News Thankfully, they survived

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The Witcher 4
Witcher 4 tech demo shows swapping to Unreal Engine was "worth it," CDPR says, and that "it's not like we lost things because of the transition" away from Cyberpunk 2077's RED Engine

By Iain Harris Published

News "Obviously, it was a well-thought-out decision to move over"

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Clair Obscur Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 publisher says GTA 6 and Rockstar can make ballooning AAA budgets and team sizes work, but "there's been a lot of irresponsible practices in the industry" from others who can't

By Iain Harris Published

News "There is a human cost to running things that way"

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Sciel, Marielle, Gustave, Lune, and Monoco approach the Paintress in the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 key art, cropped for our thumbnail
It's not just Final Fantasy and Persona – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is also inspired by my favorite JRPG gem Shadow Hearts, confirming a theory I've been sitting on for weeks

By Iain Harris Published

News Judgment Ring, is that you?

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Switch 2 launch games: a close-up of Mario and Luigi racing each other during Mario Kart World.
Nintendo says Mario Kart World isn't called Mario Kart 9 because simply adding more courses wasn't the plan "this time" – "We wanted to take the series to the next level"

By Iain Harris Published

News Mario Kart World has been cooking for eight years, and it shows

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Death Stranding 2
Death Stranding 2 technical director says that the jump from PS4 to PS5 "isn't so great," it's just "more efficient"

By Iain Harris Published

News "It’s more a case that on PS5 there are more efficient ways of arriving at similar goals"

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Final Fantasy 11 Beastmaster
Square Enix considered shutting down the original Final Fantasy MMO years ago, but the devs received "a lot of support" to keep it going

By Iain Harris Published

News Final Fantasy 11 owes plenty to its fans

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Final Fantasy 8 Remastered
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director's first experience playing a JRPG was getting stuck on Final Fantasy 8's first boss because he and his brother "couldn’t read"

By Iain Harris Published

News "The only thing we knew how to do was just auto-attack, which is really bad"

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 screenshot
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 boss clarifies no DLC is planned – instead, they're focusing on improving the base game

By Iain Harris Published

News The game's lead writer previously said "chances are good," but that's far from confirmation

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GTA 6 trailer 2
GTA 6 trailer 2 live coverage - all the analysis and reactions

By Iain Harris Last updated

LIVE Rockstar is making the GTA 6 delay news a bit easier to swallow with another look at the long-awaited game

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Stardew Valley
ConcernedApe regrets making Stardew Valley's fishing minigame "too hard" when you start out, but still thinks it's good overall: "I know it's controversial"

By Iain Harris Published

News "I think there should have been a better curve"

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Oblivion Remastered
Former Bethesda designer says the studio's infamous loading screens are "a necessary bane" of how it makes RPGs, whether you're playing Oblivion Remastered, Starfield, or Skyrim

By Iain Harris Published

News Sorry about that

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Holding the Nintendo Switch 2
Retro remake dev calls Switch 2 game-key cards "disheartening," says you'd hope a company as big as Nintendo "would take preservation a little more seriously"

By Iain Harris Published

News Despite the "step back," everybody is "definitely putting in way more effort these days to back up their stuff"

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Borderlands 4 screenshot showcasing four different Vault Hunters taking on enemies with various weapons
Everything announced at the Borderlands 4 State of Play

By Rollin Bishop Last updated

LIVE All the Borderlands 4 reveals, news, and announcements out of the extended look and deep dive

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Nintendo Switch 2 news live: all the latest Nintendo Treehouse gameplay and reaction

By Iain Harris Last updated

LIVE Follow all the highlights of Nintendo Treehouse: Live day two with us right here

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Nintendo producer thought up the Switch 2's mouse controls while playing PC games, says you can "control the mouse on your pants" as usually the table is "quite far away" from the sofa

By Iain Harris Published

News The Switch 2 aims to recapture some PC gaming magic

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Nintendo responds to questions of Switch 2 stick drift with assurances the new Joy-Con 2 controllers "have been really designed from the ground up from scratch"

By Iain Harris Published

News That, and they have been designed to have "bigger movement and smoother movement"

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Nintendo Switch 2 Direct live: all the Switch 2 reveals as they happen

By Iain Harris Last updated

Live The latest Switch 2 news as it happens from the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct presentation

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Nintendo Switch 2 Direct time and where to watch the event

By Iain Harris Published

News Here's where to watch the Switch 2 Direct and when it starts in your timezone

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Nintendo Switch 2 controller slot
Nintendo Switch 2 Direct: Everything we know so far about the April reveal showcase

By Iain Harris Last updated

Guide Here's the anticipated Nintendo Switch 2 Direct dates and start times for the upcoming showcase

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Preparing for the Switch 2, Nintendo announces "Virtual Game Cards" you can move between consoles and loan to friends for up to 2 weeks

By Iain Harris Published

News And it's coming late April

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Everything announced at the Nintendo Direct March 2025

By Rollin Bishop Last updated

News All the Nintendo Switch reveals, announcements, and news out of the unexpected event

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Porting Mario Kart 8 Deluxe to the Nintendo Switch was "kind of an afterthought," and now it's so popular that getting fans to switch could be a challenge

By Iain Harris Published

News "Inside Nintendo, not a clue that this was going to be the juggernaut"

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Palworld isn't coming to the Switch as the open-world survival hit is a "beefy game," but Pocketpair says Switch 2 is "100% worth considering"

By Iain Harris Published

News "We would like to get it on more handhelds if possible"

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"If this is just how it is, then yeah, that's the end": WoW Classic's most famous hardcore guild calls time for now after multiple raiders lose their MMO characters to DDoS attacks

By Iain Harris Published

News OnlyFangs lead Sodapoppin says "I'm not going to have people prepare and get ready just to die to a DC"

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