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 W🀅arwick and contributing to the student paper, 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
New Zelda: Breath of the Wild speedrun category emerges as player rocks up to Switch 2 preview event, strips Link, and beats Ganon in 7 minutes - "Staff congratulated me"
News "The first tim💯e anyone had completed the Breath of the Wild demo"
"It is very worth having your game on Game Pass": As debut RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 passes 1 million sales, Palworld dev defends the decision to launch on Xbox's subscription service
News People are still choosing to buy it
Id says Doom: The Dark Ages is "the best Doom game we've ever made" as it reveals we're leaving Hell for the Lovecraftian Cosmic Realm and getting a gun that shoots a mace on a chain
News Hell yeah
Joy and despair as game devs fight for a Switch 2 of their own, with Smash Bros' Masahiro Sakurai lucking into one while Balatro's LocalThunk still hunting
news Good hunting, everyone
Oblivion Remastered is so true to the original RPG that you can still use a glitch to roll credits in just 15 minutes
News The old ways are still the best
Hideo Kojima says Margaret Qualley got her Death Stranding role after he saw her dance in a viral perfume ad
News Maybe the most Kojima thing he's ever done
After seeing Oblivion Remastered, Fallout 3's lead designer expects the RPG's own rumored remaster to be a lot like Fallout 4
news Bui🍷lding settlements in the Capital Wasteland could be cool
Assassin's Creed Shadows will board the Ubisoft update train soon, with a big roadmap reveal next week: "Launch is only the beginning"
news Get ready for more assassin action
Death Stranding movie director has done his research and played the game and Metal Gear Solid, but Hideo Kojima won't let him play the other entries in the series
News I wonder why?
Oblivion Remastered is so true to the original RPG, it even keeps in a voice acting error that's been there for 19 years
News It's like 2006 again
Diablo 4 could come to Nintendo Switch 2, but series head says "live services on Switch have been a little bit challenging in the past"
News This could be a new era for Nintendo
With Ubisoft's hopes on its back, Assassin's Creed Shadows claws to the top of the March sales charts and follows Monster Hunter Wilds as 2025's second-best-selling US game
news Is the company back on the rise?
"Let's just fail quickly": REPO devs pivoted to co-op horror after running out of money since their last game "hadn't been successful enough"
news Little did they know they had a hit on their h꧃ands
As fans recreate their ugliest Oblivion characters in the RPG's new remaster, Baldur's Gate 3 dev says "there is literally no better marketing campaign than viral funny faces from a Bethesda game"
News "What in Talos’ name have you created?!"
Xbox embraces the publisher life once again as Oblivion Remastered comes to PS5 on day one
News Sony fans rejoice!
As Mario Kart World approaches, fans remember bizarre Mario Kart 8 frame rate issue which has lasted 11 years, but only on the Wii U with CPU racers and on every 64th frame
news Did you ever notice it?
Daredevil: Born Again sent me straight to this new fan-made demo and now I can't believe we haven't had an official game in 22 years
News T𒈔here hasn't been an official game since I was a boy
Monster Hunter Wilds players have found a new way to dodge certain attacks flawlessly – using paid emotes to strike their best pose
澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:News Pose!
People said it wasn't hard enough, so one Phantom Blade Zero dev cooked up a hardcore difficulty mode that changes enemy AI so much it feels more like PvP
news Tꦚhis Extreme Mode willꦗ only unlock after beating the game for the first time
Once "a massive MMO with millions of stars to explore," this 'Minecraft x No Man's Sky' survival game is still hugely ambitious: "What we felt was immense pressure to rise up to the comparison"
news So far, it's doing a great job
Bethesda won't grow much for The Elder Scrolls 6, according to Starfield dev who thinks Rockstar's consistency is amazing given GTA 6's massive headcount
News How many devs is too many?
New early access mech extraction shooter and battle royale looks like Transformers Beast Wars, and the child in me is very excited for it
news Big bots, what's not to love?
"There were some blatant f**k-ups": Path of Exile 2 devs rush out emergency patches after nerfs lead to review bombing on Steam
News They're trying to put out the fire quickly
