
Josh West
Josh West joined GamesRadar+ in 2018 as its Features Editor, and now serves as the website's Editor-in-Chief. He previously worked as Deputy Editor of games™ magazine. Josh's writing has appeared in 3D Artist, Edge, Gamesmaster, iCreate, Metal Hammer, Official Xbox Magazine, Official PlayStation Magazine, Play, Retro Gamer, SciFi Now, and SFX. In his youth, he performed background roles in movies like Harry Potter and TV shows like The League of Gentlemen. With over 15 years of industry experience, you are most likely to find Josh leveraging his expertise in action-adventure games, MMOs, RPGs, and shooters to bring the readers of GR+ closer to the video games that they truly care about.
Latest articles by Josh West

After playing Grounded 2 for 30 minutes, it's clear that my favorite survival game is getting a massive glow-up
By Josh West published
Summer Preview | Obsidian Entertainment and Eidos Montreal has found big solutions to the smallest problems

Obsidian explains Grounded 2 was born from technical limitations of the Xbox One: "This is our opportunity to build the world from the ground up"
By Scott McCrae published
News 2 Ground 2 ed

Mafia: The Old Country – Everything we know so far about the new game
By Hirun Cryer, Emma-Jane Betts last updated
Guide Mafia: The Old Country finally has a release date and a new trailer, so here's everything you need to know about the upcoming game before it launches!

Best local multiplayer Switch games to play in 2025
By Jordan Gerblick last updated
Best List Remember to tighten the straps on your Joy-Cons before playing the best local multiplayer Switch games

The 25 best Wii U games of all time
By Sam Loveridge last updated
Best List From Zelda classics to Mario, here are the best Wii U games to play right now

The 25 best multiplayer Switch games you can play today
By Heather Wald last updated
Best List From Splatoon to Minecraft here's the 25 best multiplayer Switch games for online and offline play

Ninja Gaiden 4 devs say "Soulslikes have kind of taken center stage" since the last installment in the series, but "we are going against the trend in that way"
By Scott McCrae published
News "When you pick up the controller and you play…It's like, oh, this is Ninja Gaiden"

Grounded 2 adding mounts was such a big change that Obsidian had to "rethink how the world works"
By Jordan Gerblick published
News "When you add a feature like that into a game, it kind of changes a little bit of everything about the world that you're creating"

The Outer Worlds 2 director reveals Obsidian "did a full breakdown on Destiny" and sought advice from the Halo team for the sequel's shooting
By Scott McCrae published
News "Even before The Outer Worlds 1 shipped, that was one of the things that we knew we had wanted to improve"

As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG
By Catherine Lewis published
News "You'd have to honestly talk to the Xbox folks" about the price, Brandon Adler says

The 25 best Wii games of all time
By Josh West last updated
Best List From Super Paper Mario to Kirby's Epic Yarn, these are the best Wii games to play right now

Ninja Gaiden 4 hands-on: PlatinumGames and Team Ninja are cooking up something pretty special in this bloody and brutal return to form
By Josh West published
Summer Preview 2025 | It's been over 20 years since Team Ninja dragged this franchise back from the dead, and there's still plenty of life to it yet

Playing Gears of War: Reloaded on PS5 is exceptionally surreal, especially in online co-op with a player on Xbox Series X
By Josh West published
Summer Preview 2025 | The Coalition has remastered Gears of War again, and there's never been a better way to experience the adventure

Fable 4: Everything we know so far about the new Fable game
By Heather Wald last updated
Guide Fable 4's release date is now set to arrive in 2026, so here's everything you need to know ahead of the new RPG

Is Elden Ring Nightreign crossplay? Cross-platform support explained
By Josh West last updated
Guide If you were hoping to play Elden Ring Nightreign cross-platform with your friends, I've got bad news for you

Can you play Elden Ring Nightreign solo?
By Joel Franey last updated
Guide Elden Ring Nightreign supports solo play but it's not easy, so you'll need to be prepared

Upcoming Obsidian games: Every new Obsidian game in development
By Josh West last updated
Upcoming The list of upcoming Obsidian games is small but mighty, with The Outer Worlds 2 leading the charge

Upcoming Ubisoft games: Every new Ubisoft game in development
By Jasmine Gould-Wilson last updated
Upcoming There are plenty of upcoming Ubisoft games in the works now that Assassin's Creed Shadows has launched, and we finally have at least one release date

The Outer Worlds 2 gets an October release date as Obsidian opens pre-orders and confirms that 2 story expansions are on their way
By Josh West last updated
News All of that, and so much more

Gears of War: E-Day is being pitched as the ultimate 20th anniversary present as The Coalition locks in a 2026 release window
By Josh West published
News We also got to see Gears of War: Reloaded in action for the first time

Gears of War Reloaded is getting several weekend-long betas for pre-order buyers "to really test at scale the cross-platform play experience" and "make sure that the servers are ready for big numbers"
By Josh West published
News Pre-orders are open now

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 announced: the first consecutive release in the series gets a 2025 release window, is set 40 years after Black Ops 6, and brings back campaign co-op
By Josh West published
News And that's just the start

Surprise! Obsidian is making Grounded 2, and it's launching into Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview next month
By Josh West published
News Honey, Obsidian shrunk the kids… again
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