Josh West
Josh West joined GamesRadar+ in 2018 as its Features Editor, and now serves as the website's Edit🐭or-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 perform🤡ed 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
Upcoming PC games: New PC games for 2025 and beyond
Upcoming Ready up for these upcoming PC games set to put your rig to the test in 2025, from Borderlands 4 to Kilꦗling Floor 3
The Outer Worlds 2: Everything we know so far about Obsidian's new RPG
Guide With an innovated perks and flaws system on the way, The Outer Worlds 2 wants you to play your way💙 th🃏is October
Diving into Gears of War: Reloaded's chaotic multiplayer servers is like being wrapped in a warm blanket lined with sandpaper
Preview Summer Preview | The Co🌳alition has done an exceptional job of breathing new life into 2006's Gears of War, but in 2025 its multiplayer isn't going to be for everyone
Upcoming PS5 games: New PS5 games for 2025 and beyond
Upcoming With so many upcoming PS5 games to keep track of, this list does the remembering ꦕfor you
Borderlands 4: Everything we know so far
Guide It looks like Borderlands 4 is launchꦅing on the Nintendo Switch 2 as well as Xbox Series X, PS5, and PC
Upcoming Xbox Series X games for 2025 and beyond
Upcoming From Borderlands 4 to Gears of War: Reloaded, here are all the new and upcoming Xbox Series X games heading ou𒆙r way i♋n 2025
New games 2025 and beyond: The biggest video game release dates for PS5, Xbox Series X, PC, Switch, and more
Upcoming Here's all the new games an🍰d release dates of 2025 to help you catch up or plan ahead for June and beyond, from Death Stranding 2 to Borderlands 4
Grounded 2 is targeting updates every "four to five months" after Obsidian learned the hard way: "When we started with Grounded 1 in early access we were trying to do monthly updates – that was a hassle and it didn't work"
Feature Summer Preview | Obsidian Entertainment details the lessons learned af▨ter 🍬its first early access adventure, and how it changed the studio's approach to Grounded 2
With The Outer Worlds 2, Obsidian is dedicated to making sneaky playstyles truly viable: "We have a strike team going room-by-room to see if we can stealth properly through each location"
Feature🔜 Summer Preview | The improvements to stealth in The Outer Worlds 2 reflect the effort Obsidian is putting into creating an RP🌺G that's reactive to your decisions
Obsidian won't rule out bringing Grounded 2 to PS5 in the future, but says that its initial release is "all about being in Game Preview and Early Access"
Feature Summer Preview | Grounded was a success♋ on PS5 and Switch, so why isn't its sequel following in its footsteps? We speak to Obsidian to learn more
Everything is bigger in Grounded 2, but Obsidian never considered stretching beyond four-player co-op: "It would have undermined what Grounded was really about"
Feature Summer♔ Preview | Our bite-sized preview of Grounded 🌳2 continues as Obsidian gives us exclusive insight into how it scaled up beyond the backyard
After playing The Outer Worlds 2, I'm convinced that it has the potential to be Obsidian's greatest game – and the best FPS of 2025
Summer Preview | The Outer Worlds was a fun sci-fi ad🍒venture, but its sequel is shaping up to be something truly special
After playing Grounded 2 for 30 minutes, it's clear that my favorite survival game is getting a massive glow-up
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"
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Mafia: The Old Country – Everything we know so far about the new game
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 launch📖es!
Best local multiplayer Switch games to play in 2025
Best List Rememberꦑ to tighten the straps on your Joy-Cons before playing the best local multiplayer Switch games
Upcoming horror games for 2025 and beyond
Upcoming The list of upcoming horror games is getting longer thanks to Resident Evil Reqওuiem and a brand new Silent Hill remake
The 25 best Wii U games of all time
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
Best List From Splatoon to Minecraft here's the 25 best multiplayer Switch games for on﷽line and o🐼ffline play
GTA 6: Everything we know so far
Guide GTA 6 officially has a r♒elease date and will be landing♑ in 2026
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"
News "When you pick up the controller and you pl﷽ay…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"
News "When you add a feature like that into a gam🐓e, it kind of ch🦂anges 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
News "Even before The Outꦰer Worlds 1 shipp🌜ed, that was one of the things that we knew we had wanted to improve"
