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 measure. When I'm not running 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

Geralt's game actor says he was "sad" to see Henry Cavill go, but that Liam Hemsworth "holds up pretty well" in The Witcher season 4: "He's made it his own character"
By Lauren Milici published
News Doug Cockle approves of Liam Hemsworth as Geralt

The best Cyber Monday PS5 deals in 2025: what Sony savings we expect from this year's sale
By Tabitha Baker last updated
Deals We're rounding up all the biggest Cyber Monday PS5 deals you can expect during this December's sales.

GTA 6 2026 release delay live blog - All the information and reactions live
By Sam Loveridge last updated
Everything we know so far about the GTA 6 2026 delay and the reactions from the industry

"It's really fateful" – Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director on charting a new course for the JRPG series with a return to Nintendo, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and outdoing AI
By Iain Harris published
Features Interview | Square Enix's Naoki Hamaguchi answers all of our questions - then several more

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director "would love" to make a AA game with a similar scope to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 that's "really focused on one area"
By Kaan Serin published
News But only if Naoki Hamaguchi "completely ignored" his role at Square Enix

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director's GOTY pick, and not just because it features JRPG-inspired combat: "It gets all of the elements in it right"
By Kaan Serin published
News Naoki Hamaguchi's also a fan

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director says "however much AI might try and intrude and take part in the creative side of things," his team would want to be "good enough creators" that "we could do better than AI"
By Iain Harris published
News Naoki Hamaguchi says that using AI for the creative side of development is "not something that I could really go ahead with"

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs love to see players "outsmarting" them with obscene builds that break the French JRPG wide open: "The best reward you can get"
By Iain Harris published
News I'm not sure Simon feels the same way

20 years later, cult classic PS2 JRPG Tales of Rebirth is finally fully playable in English thanks to a fan translation that's been in the works for nearly 4 years
By Iain Harris published
News Another Tales game has been, well, rebirthed

Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida has one regret from the PS1 era: the US and Europe missed out on too many Japanese classics
By Iain Harris published
News "So some Japanese games, especially from third-party companies, didn't see release in the US and European regions"

The Outer Worlds 2 lead says players want "deeper RPGs," and that the team has looked to "older Obsidian games" to deliver just that: "How can we bring that back to the forefront"
By Iain Harris published
News Game director Brandon Adler wants to "really get back to those sensibilities of a really strong RPG"

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is only 85% of its creative director's original vision for the French JRPG, and he "would have loved" to do more with a specific fan-favorite character
By Iain Harris published
News Justice for Esquie is "something that we might want to do later," says Sandfall Interactive lead Guillaume Broche

Battlefield 6 release live coverage – all the patch note highlights, launch information, and more that you need to know
By Iain Harris last updated
LIVE The next installment in EA's long-running FPS series is finally close to launching

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads the Golden Joystick Award 2025 charge for most nominations, nudging out Death Stranding 2, Ghost of Yotei, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
By Iain Harris published
News Don't delay, vote today

World of Warcraft: Midnight's riff on Monolith's The Lord of the Rings Nemesis System was spurred on by a War Within feature Blizzard doubted: "We weren't sure how people would react"
By Iain Harris published
News Blizzard wants to "get people a little bit more engaged in the outdoor world"

Everything announced at the Nintendo Direct September 2025
By Iain Harris last updated
News Super Mario Galaxy movie! Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave! More!

Get ready for the Borderlands 4 release – live build-up, reactions, and launch info as we count down to Gearbox's open-world looter shooter
By Iain Harris last updated
LIVE It's Borderlands 4 release day, so follow along as we cover everything you need to know

Hollow Knight Silksong release live coverage – Steam and eShop outages, early hands-on impressions, and more
By Iain Harris last updated
LIVE With the Hollow Knight Silksong release time now here, join us live as we all act completely normal about this massive launch

Final Fantasy Tactics remaster makes Cloud easier to use, Square Enix promises, and even gives him the Materia Blade right off the bat, so you'll want to see the secret hiding where it was in the original RPG
By Jordan Gerblick published
News Director Kazutoyo Maehiro admits "he was pretty difficult to utilize as a character" in the original strategy RPG

Gamescom Day 1 live coverage – all the news, interviews, and previews as they happen
By Iain Harris last updated
LIVE From Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 to Hollow Knight Silksong, we're on the floor in Germany to go hands-on with all the most exciting upcoming games
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