
Iain Harris
I joined GamesRadar+ in May 2022 following stints at PCGamesN and PocketGamer.Biz, with some freelance for Kotaku UK, RockPaperShotgun, and VG24/7 thrown in for good measureﷺ. When I'm not runn🔜ing the news team on the games side, you'll find me putting News Editor duties to one side to play the hottest JRPG of 20 years ago or pillaging the depths of Final Fantasy 14 for a swanky new cloak – the more colourful, the better.
Latest articles by Iain Harris

Assassin's Creed Shadows release time – the countdown to Ubisoft's Japan-inspired RPG is on
By Iain Harris published
News Here's when Assassin's Creed Shadows unl🍃ocks in your🦋 timezone

Final Fantasy 14's 7.2 patch launches in under 2 weeks, kicking off a run of MMO content that the community has been waiting for since Dawntrail launched last year
By Iain Harris published
News FF14's Seekers of Eternity update launches on𒉰 March 25

Atomfall boss "very familiar" with Baldur's Gate 3 director's frustrations with publishers, as he recalls horror advice that games are "faster to make" if you "make fewer bugs"
By Iain Harris published
News I don't think it works like that

Square Enix remembers that Chrono Trigger exists, announcing various new projects as it celebrates the Dragon Ball, Final Fantasy, and Dragon Quest royalty behind the cult JRPG
By Iain Harris published
News I'd happily take a decent Nintendo Switch o♋r PS5 port, please

Suikoden lead hopes to expand the cult JRPG series "beyond where it ended" and would happily follow Zelda to the silver screen: "If you have any friends in Hollywood, please let us know"
By Iain Harris published
News In the meantime, you've got a mobile game, anime, stage play, concert, and manga to l🥀ook for💫ward to

Konami spent over 5 years bringing an iconic JRPG series back to life as reviving Suikoden "would be over" before it began if they released a "half-baked product"
By Iain Harris published
News You only get one chance to make a first impression - sort of♏

Masahiro Sakurai says Super Smash Bros "might have died out" if not for late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata: "There's no doubt that he influenced me in many ways"
By Iain Harris published
News Mas🅠ahiro Sakurai owes a lot to Iwata, and one mean senior colleague in particular

Stardew Valley patch squashes Nintendo Switch bug that made your favorite villagers incredibly easy to romance
By Iain Harris published
News Marriage seekers dealt a post-Valentin♔e Day blow

Palworld dev endorses this sand-powered sim that looks like Terraria with automation, which already has 97% positive reviews in Steam Next Fest
By Iain Harris published
News "It's rough but there is something special abou🃏t it&he⭕llip;"

This multiplayer dungeon RPG captures the fun of MMOs like World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14 with no grind or subscription, and a killer Steam Next Fest demo
By Iain Harris last updated
News Fellowship is worth a try if you want to get into one o♔f the MMO genre's mos♔t time-intensive hobbies

Everything announced at Pokemon Presents 2025
By Iain Harris last updated
News Pokemon Legends Z-A! Pokemon Champions! More!

Monster Hunter Wilds release date and times – here's when the behemoth action RPG unlocks
By Iain Harris published
News The long-awaited follow-up to MH: World is nearlyജ here, at long 💃last

Pokemon Presents February 2025 time – hopes for Pokemon Z-A and Switch 2 updates run high as Pokemon Day stream draws here
By Iain Harris published
News Here's what 𒁏time Pokemon Presents 2025 starts in you💫r timezone

Monster Hunter Wilds pre-load times – differences between PS5 and Xbox / PC explained
By Iain Harris published
News H♛ere's when you can pre-load Monster Hunter Wilds in your timezone

One of Elden Ring's best mods comes to Dark Souls 3 as a prolific FromSoftware modder gets seamless co-op up and running
By Iain Harris published
News Dark Souls 3: Seamles♚s Co-op lets you "play with friends throughout the entirety of the game 🐼with no restrictions"

BioWare co-founder dreamt of taking over EA "from the inside" if Star Wars: The Old Republic was, "like, $2 billion a year successful"
By Iain Harris published
News Greg Zes🧸chuk doesn't like big companies as they "exist to exploit properties"

Switch 2 will launch in June for not "too much more than $400", predicts former Nintendo retail strategist
By Iain Harris published
News And if 𒉰it launches for the holiday 🃏season, "something wasn't ready"

Months after porting GTA 3 to Dreamcast, the same devs are repeating the trick with Vice City, and they already have rough progress to show
By Iain Harris published
News After 22 long years, the wait for GTA Vice City on Dreamcast might soon be o﷽ver

Doom: The Dark Ages features "the largest spaces we've ever made,” but id Software knows you don't want to spend 2 hours in a single level
By Iain Harris published
News Gaܫme director Hugo Martin says each l🎃evel aims for that "sweet spot" of one hour to complete

Doom: The Dark Ages devs looked to everything from Star Wars to Batman Year One to shape the iconic shooter's next game
By Iain Harris published
News "You follow the IP development rulebook that was creat🐬ed꧅ by a lot of great people"

Dragon Age and Anthem producer says stop harassing developers "because you don't know the circumstances that resulted in the thing that you're mad at"
By Iain Harris published
News Former Bi🃏oWare executive Mark Darrah says "be a human being, have somꦿe empathy"

Still plagued by Gwent memes, The Witcher 3 director's new vampire RPG makes you think twice about playing mini-games while the world burns
By Iain Harris published
News Blood of Daw💛nwalker wants to retain some urgency

Sony finally managed to pry Final Fantasy 7 away from Nintendo thanks to a "schmoozer" of a former employee who hung out with Square Enix executives at his parties, according to one former PlayStation boss
By Iain Harris published
News The Nintendo 64 sticking with cartridges over CDs certainl💝y helped, too
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