Josh West
Josh West joined GamesRadar+ in 2018 as its Features Editor, and now serves as the website's Editor-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 performed 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
Born out of a pandemic, refined through reflection: Gears of War: E-Day is a chance for The Coalition to recapture the spirit of Gears and "tear a lot of s*** up"
By Josh West published
Features Summer Preview | The Coalition on the return of Marcus and Dom, telling the origin of the Lancer, and more
Upcoming horror games for 2024 and beyond
By Louise Blain last updated
Features Reader, beware: these upcoming horror games are waiting for you
Stalker 2 hands-on: I played Heart of Chornobyl, and it's finally becoming the immersive-FPS I always knew it could be
By Josh West published
Preview Preview | It's remarkable how far this game has come in such a short time
What's Hot 2024: 50 of the best games we saw and played at the summer showcases
By Josh West last updated
The GamesRadar+ Summer Games Preview runs throughout the month of June, diving deep into the hottest upcoming games for PC, PS5, Switch, and Xbox Series X
The new Path of Exile 2 class is the Witch, and Diablo 4 Necromancer mains will want to pay attention
By Josh West published
News Game director Jonathan Rogers talks the powerful new spellcaster joining the Path of Exile 2 roster
Gears of War: E-Day director says the new shooter will "absolutely be doing more" linear levels instead of Gear 5's open-ended maps
By Hirun Cryer published
News It sounds like E-Day will be a denser experience
The weapons in Doom: The Dark Ages are big, bold, and bear exceptionally silly names: "It's called the Skull Crusher because it crushes skulls"
By Josh West published
News id Software couldn't be more on the nose if it tried
Assassin's Creed Shadows: Everything we know so far about Ubisoft's next RPG
By Josh West last updated
Features Assassin's Creed Shadows launches on November 15
Upcoming Ubisoft games: Every new Ubisoft game in development
By Jasmine Gould-Wilson last updated
Upcoming Anno 117: Pax Romana just joined the upcoming Ubisoft games on our radar
Upcoming Xbox Series X games for 2024 and beyond
By Sam Loveridge last updated
Features All the new and upcoming Xbox Series X games confirmed to launch this year and further afield
Perfect Dark: Everything we know about the Xbox Series X exclusive so far
By Josh West last updated
Features Perfect Dark stunned us at the Xbox Games Showcase 2024
Fable 4: Everything we know so far about the new Fable game
By Heather Wald last updated
Features Our latest look at Playground Games' Fable has us more hyped than ever
New games 2024: The biggest video game release dates for PS5, Xbox Series X, PC, Switch, and more
By Josh West last updated
Upcoming Take a look at the video game release calendar to see all the biggest new games of 2024 and beyond
Doom: The Dark Ages is introducing big changes to combat because id Software came to one core realization: "Every projectile mattered in the original Doom"
By Josh West published
Preview Creative director Hugo Martin on how Doom: The Dark Ages is a spiritual successor to the original game, and how the Saw Shield will completely upend your expectations
My favorite Assassin's Creed Shadows feature has to be the unpredictable snowstorms which mask hidden blade assassinations
By Josh West published
News Ubisoft's Marc-Alexis Cote on how a push towards dynamism is evolving Assassin's Creed
Black Ops 6 zombies is going back to basics with round-based play, dedicated operators, and self-contained maps as Treyarch set out "to create the best version of zombies"
By Josh West published
Features Treyarch's associate design director Kevin Drew talks the return of Zombies in Black Ops 6
Call of Duty has been treading water since Modern Warfare – and now Black Ops 6 is here to "define the future" of the franchise
By Josh West published
Features Preview | Treyarch and Raven detail the Black Ops 6 campaign
Upcoming PC games for 2024 and beyond
By Josh West last updated
Upcoming PC Games All the upcoming PC games worth noting, from Indiana Jones to Assassin's Creed Shadows
Upcoming PS5 games: New PS5 games for 2024 and beyond
By Sam Loveridge last updated
Features Here's the upcoming PS5 games line-up of top games to have on your radar
Alan Wake 2: Night Springs DLC is coming June 8, and it offers something desperately missing from the core game
By Josh West published
Interview Remedy talks making Jesse Faden, Tim Breaker, and Rose Marigold (sort of) playable in Alan Wake 2
Remedy reverses course on Alan Wake 2 physical editions, puts my rent in jeopardy with limited $200 collector's bundle
By Josh West published
News You'll want to work fast if you want the Alan Wake 2 collector's edition from Limited Run
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: Everything we know about the New Indiana Jones game so far
By Josh West last updated
Features Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is an upcoming action adventure epic from Bethesda and MachineGames
BioShock 4: Everything we know so far
By Heather Wald last updated
Features Will 2024 be the year we see BioShock 4 news and updates?