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 games, 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 pape🤪r, The Boar. After university I worked at TheGamer before heading 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
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 yo🍰u?
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 G🐲aming Show beg💝ins and where you can find a stream
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?
Helldivers 2's Illuminate invasion brought players from around the world together, and our defence of Super Earth's Shanghai even made the news in China
News Teamwork makes the dream work
A big Hollow Knight: Silksong Steam update has Metroidvania hopefuls daring to believe once again as Summer Game Fest and Xbox's Summer Showcase nears: "Doubters in shambles"
News Everybody stay calm!
CDPR "thought it was going to be more of a challenge" porting Cyberpunk 2077 to Nintendo Switch 2, but beefier specs and microSD made it "surprisingly fast"
news The future is now, samurai
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands is free, but Borderlands boss Randy Pitchford has somehow found a way to make fans mad about it: "Dude's milking people for hate clicks at this point"
News P🍃itchford's latest comments follow remarks around Borderlands 4's potential affordability
Elden Ring Nightreign player channels their inner Sekiro to parry the co-op roguelite's final boss to death – completely solo – just 2 days after launch
News Now that's someone I want on my team
15 years later, Red Dead Redemption's John Marston is playing the open-world cowboy game for the first time and reveals why "John is screaming at people for no reason" when riding a horse
News He also shoots a hat out🧜 the air without dead eye, because he can
Elden Ring Nightreign's creators are begging you: upgrade your flasks, stick together, and don't be afraid to use an ultimate for a revive
News You ✅can do it, and publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment is here to help
"The longer the game is, the less likely people are to finish": Fallout creator Tim Cain says 100+ hour RPGs are "deep" and all, but they're also intimidating money pits
news "Some people go, 'Why are games costing ꦓ150 million, 500 million, a billion?' That'sღ why"
Even though "it works for all FromSoft games," The Witcher 3 devs quickly discovered that forcing you to fight ridiculously strong enemies "was a bad idea"
News Games aren't one size fits all
Helldivers 2 players are in mourning over the death of Super Earth's President, who "died heroically"
News Managed democracy has🤡 never been more under siege
After a string of losses, Helldivers 2 players tell the Illuminate "Not Today" in 'Super China' Mega City Equality-on-Sea, which is so dang defended our forces have "pushed the Illuminate to the edges"
News Hold the line!
Helldivers 2 players no longer think the bugdivers are threatening the chances of saving Super Earth as the latest Major Order is finally brokering peace with the squiddivers
News Finally, time to kill some bugs
Pokemon Legends: Z-A seemingly features a returning X and Y character who has fans going feral after spotting her in the RPG's cover art
News She was a huge part of X and Y's postgame
EA's canceled Black Panther game supposedly contained Skrulls and had you playing as T'Challa's son Azari
News A story we'll never see
It's not looking good: Helldivers 2 players lost another Super Earth city, so now they've got reduced ammo and Stims – oh wait, they're back to normal and we've got free napalm too
News You win some, you lose some, and you win some a🧜gai♏n
A Skyrim player has put their body on the line and proved High Hrothgar's 7,000 steps are actually just 3,600, but they still took 45 minutes to climb
News Those stair climbing machines are no joke
For the first time, Epic's State of Unreal will take place during Unreal Fest, with presentations from CEO Tim Sweeney and more
News Epic news
