Issy van der Velde
I'm Issy, a freelancer who you'll now occasionally see over here covering news on GamesRadar. I've always had a passion for playing g🐭ames, but I learned how to write about them while doing my Film and TV degrees at the University of Warwick and contributing to the student paper, The Boar. After university I worked at TheGamer before headi꧂ng up the news section at Dot Esports. Now you'll find me freelancing for Rolling Stone, NME, Inverse, and many more places. I love all things horror, narrative-driven, and indie, and I mainly play on my PS5. I'm currently clearing my backlog and loving Dishonored 2.
Latest articles by Issy van der Velde
Splitgate 2 director says it was "news to me" that the FPS launched with $80 bundles, blames former monetization head "who happened to come from Call of Duty"
News How did that get there?
"I bet they didn't crunch this in a year or 2": As Switch 2 gives Pokemon Scarlet and Violet a needed FPS boost, fans blast GameFreak one last time as it unveils its gorgeous new action RPG
News 🥀I can't believeℱ the same company made these games
Bethesda-approved Skyblivion is suddenly more than just an exciting remake – it's a poster child for a potential game-changer for mods: one-click modding on GOG
News It's now easier than ever to mod your games
Hitman dev says 007 First Light isn't "just shooting and shooting and shooting," and spy gadgets will allow for "varied and spread out" approaches to missions in the James Bond game
News New hero, new rules
From serial killer to bad knees, The Outer Worlds 2 has some ridiculous perks even by RPG standards, including one that just "makes the game pretty unplayable if you happen to choose that"
News These are so silly, I love them
Splitgate 2 dev says he made his FPS because he hates Call of Duty, loves Halo, and wants Titanfall 3 – and his new battle royale is "f***ing awesome"
news And the cringest moment of the sho⛄w awa🧸rd goes to...
Ex-GTA 5 dev remembers he's about to launch a game, announces Mindseye collab with Hitman's Agent 47
news No one saw that coming
New strategy game Chronicles Medieval has you fight third-person battles with Tom Hardy narrating in a surprisingly normal accent for once
news Boots on the ground strategy, how I've longed fo♈r you
"Is this the best Nintendo could do?": Repair expert gives Switch 2 a 3/10 for repairability, citing "probably still drifty" Joy-Cons and "tamper-proofing hidden in plain sight"
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Hollow Knight: Silksong fans are less OK than ever after Team Cherry confirmed a 2025 launch, with fresh Steam updates pre-Summer Game Fest provoking doubters and believers: "We've come full circle"
News Are you ready to believe?
Don't write off a Red Dead Redemption 2 remake or remaster, Arthur Morgan actor says: "We've already started to see it for GTA 5 and the original"
news One of the best-looking game ever made, b�ꦡ�ut could it be even better?
After surviving 3 robberies, a dead game, and burnout, crabby indie studio says 'oops' and makes 2 more games: "You can't stop us, we're gonna keep making s**t"
News "We're calli🧸ng these games an Aggro Crab side hustle"
You can stop pretending you played Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 now – they're on Game Pass, a year after a leak predicting this, so now you have no excuse not to try them
News Now available at no extra cost
Wildcard Wishlist: These are the games we've pinned our hopes and dreams on turning up at Summer Game Fest 2025
Feature 𒅌SGF Predictions | Our brains might not want to take the risk, but these are the games our hearts de𓂃mand
A new Helldivers 2 cape is in the works to "honor the service and victory of those who fought to defend Super Earth against the Illuminate invasion"
News Will you wear it with pride?
A Minecraft speedrunner nearly smashed a world record by one whole minute, but then an Enderman ruined everything: "This is the most depressing thing I've ever seen in my life"
News "If his crosshair was 🐻four pixels to the right, this would've been the world record"
Nintendo Switch 2's Welcome Tour is not only a $10 version of PS5's free Astro's Playroom, you also have to buy extra peripherals to 100% it
News C'mon...
If you want to avoid Deltarune chapter 3 and 4 spoilers, developer Toby Fox warns you to stay off social media, don't look up the soundtrack titles, and steer clear of anyone from New Zealand for a few hours
News You've been warned...
No Man's Sky's new free update adds robot settlements you can be mayor of, and it'll be on Switch 2 day 1: "A huge leap forward"
News Are🐷 you ready to take the universe on the go with yoꩵu?
New Battlefield 6 leak shows the tank-on-tank combat, and it looks raw as hell: "Destruction and audio are back"
News Oh yeah, that's the good stuff
Helldivers 2's "ongoing merriment and sanctioned frivolity" following our victory over the Illuminate cut short with a new Major Order to defend from incoming Automaton attacks
News Get your helmets on, Helldivers
How to watch the PC Gaming Show – and what to expect this year
news Here's when the PC Gaming Show begins and where you can 🥂find a sꦬtream
Helldivers 2 grunts afraid of what's next following 5 days without a Major Order after saving Super Earth: "Those f***ers are up to something"
news Is there a grand Illuminate conspiracy brewing?
