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 Warwick 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

Sick of waiting for GTA 6, one modder has put its map into GTA 5, and you can try it out right now
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news Fine, I'll do it myself

Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is apparently taking inspiration from Elden Ring and could be a new direction for Naughty Dog
By Issy van der Velde published
News This could be interesting

EA gets "so much s*** they don't deserve" according to Split Fiction director who says the oft-maligned publisher has always been "super good" to his studio
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news Josef Fares is a big EA fan

It Takes Two sold over 20 million copies and won GOTY, but Hazelight's Josef Fares says "all the numbers looked really, really bad" before the co-op studio became "this really big developer"
By Issy van der Velde published
news Don't give up on your dreams

Silent Hill f may be the scariest game in the 26-year-old series, or at least the first one rated 18+ in Japan
By Issy van der Velde published
news Graphic violence is just the start

Steam's new game revenue is 10x higher than it was 10 years ago, but only around 200 made more than $1 million in their first 30 days
By Issy van der Velde published
news A lot of competition

Don't ask Pyramid Head's creator what he knows about Silent Hill f: "I didn't work on it"
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News The monsters still look terrifying though

As Sony trots out an AI-powered Aloy, Horizon Zero Dawn fans revel in the irony: "The entire game is a warning against this kind of nonsense"
By Issy van der Velde published
News At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 patch brings mod support, barber shop, and over 1,000 changes like this: "Mutt can no longer enter the fighting arena in the Jewish quarter"
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News He's a gentile

After a landmark RPG, Disco Elysium mobile wants to "captivate the TikTok user," which is maybe the worst thing I've ever read in my entire life
By Issy van der Velde published
news Disco is dead

Dev of unhinged open-world game where you parry everything says "f*** it" again, adds something farming life sims like Stardew Valley need: a way to fight the fish you catch
By Issy van der Velde published
news Absolutely wild

I've found my Assassin's Creed Shadows playstyle, thanks to this clip of Yasuke smashing dudes with a huge club instead of sneaking around
By Issy van der Velde published
news Nice hidden blade, nerd. Now check this stick out

4 years after shutting down, this dead sci-fi MMO is being brought back to life, but there's no word on its canceled TV show tie-in
By Issy van der Velde published
News I can't believe I'd never heard of this

Retiring Insomniac boss says developers should still tackle new genres, but it's much riskier these days due to time and money
By Issy van der Velde published
News Investors and shareholders don't love risk

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has another secret skill, and this one is an absolute game changer - looking down makes you duck under branches while riding your horse
By Issy van der Velde published
News So simple, yet so effective

World of Warcraft guild cheats its way to winning Race for World First, gets caught, banned, then reverses its name and does it all over again
By Issy van der Velde published
News Everyone deserves a second chance... A second chance to cheat, that is

After stepping away from Balatro for 3 months, the developer only resumed work "because I was bored but the internet was out so I couldn't play Rocket League"
By Issy van der Velde published
News Breaks are important

Minecraft Pocket Edition got its name because one of its devs was a big "Nintendo nerd" who wanted to pay homage to the Game Boy Pocket
By Issy van der Velde published
news It's still the Pocket Edition in my heart

Balatro creator says it's "useless" for him to give advice to other devs because "I only have one data point" and it was a 5 million-sale success story
By Issy van der Velde published
news This industry moves too fast to follow anyone's footsteps

"You can't rewrite the past just because of a bad breakup": Legendary indie devs' feud is going public
By Issy van der Velde published
news The devs are fighting

I just watched the first 10 seconds of this indie roguelike’s trailer, and it's not even trying to be subtle about being an unlicensed 40K game
By Issy van der Velde published
news Wearing its inspirations on its sleeve

The Last of Us creator Neil Druckmann sounds like he's contemplating the end of his career: "When is it time to stop?"
By Issy van der Velde published
News "It's not a free will issue," says 28 Days Later writer Alex Garland

An AI's mission to 'teach' itself Pokemon Red is going as well as you think - after escaping Cerulean City after tens of hours, it went right on back
By Issy van der Velde published
news Even fish can play Pokemon better
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