Andy Brown
@andybrown202.bsky.social
Features editor at GamesRadar+ / Teemo's humble manservant / video game enjoyer who gets lost leaving Newcastle
For work: [email protected]
For work: [email protected]
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I've done a lot of interviews this year, but speaking with @hellocakebread.bsky.social about @ivyroadgames.bsky.social's Wanderstop (which is a game I haven't stopped thinking about all year) was a big highlight for me. What a gem it is. www.gamesradar.com/games/simula...
"Just making a cozy game isn't enough to heal a person": Why Wanderstop and its blend of introspection and tea-making has stayed with me throughout 2025
Year in Review 2025 | Speaking with Ivy Road founder and writer and director Davey Wreden about Wanderstop's comforting, dark infusion
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December 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I've done a lot of interviews this year, but speaking with @hellocakebread.bsky.social about @ivyroadgames.bsky.social's Wanderstop (which is a game I haven't stopped thinking about all year) was a big highlight for me. What a gem it is. www.gamesradar.com/games/simula...
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Features editor @andybrown202.bsky.social explores how and why PC gaming defined 2025 for him.
Despite censorship woes and the terrifying price of RAM, 2025 was the year I fell back in love with PC gaming
Year in Review 2025 | Reconnecting with the games that brought me to PC in the first place
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December 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Features editor @andybrown202.bsky.social explores how and why PC gaming defined 2025 for him.
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something something baa humbug
not quite a debut, but happy to see some freelance pieces popping up as I get back in the game! here I absolutely fucked my oblivion playthrough with one very silly modded spell
huge thanks to @andybrown202.bsky.social for the opp and edits
not quite a debut, but happy to see some freelance pieces popping up as I get back in the game! here I absolutely fucked my oblivion playthrough with one very silly modded spell
huge thanks to @andybrown202.bsky.social for the opp and edits
I turned every Oblivion NPC into a sheep and broke the game, but I can only blame myself
Now Playing | Baa-rbaric
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December 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
something something baa humbug
not quite a debut, but happy to see some freelance pieces popping up as I get back in the game! here I absolutely fucked my oblivion playthrough with one very silly modded spell
huge thanks to @andybrown202.bsky.social for the opp and edits
not quite a debut, but happy to see some freelance pieces popping up as I get back in the game! here I absolutely fucked my oblivion playthrough with one very silly modded spell
huge thanks to @andybrown202.bsky.social for the opp and edits
the start of every party-based rpg
December 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
the start of every party-based rpg
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GamesRadar+ presents Year in Review: The Best of 2025!
Our EOY coverage starts *right now* and you can follow along in this hub all month long.
Our EOY coverage starts *right now* and you can follow along in this hub all month long.
Year in Review: The Best of 2025
With exclusive interviews and features, we're here to celebrate what made this year great
www.gamesradar.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
GamesRadar+ presents Year in Review: The Best of 2025!
Our EOY coverage starts *right now* and you can follow along in this hub all month long.
Our EOY coverage starts *right now* and you can follow along in this hub all month long.
Next on my Total War sicko beat: Medieval 3!
I caught up with creative director Leif Walter and game director Pawel Wojs to hear why CA is announcing Med 3 so early, the sim-like direction taking shape, and the last time they tried to make Medieval 3.
www.gamesradar.com/games/total-...
I caught up with creative director Leif Walter and game director Pawel Wojs to hear why CA is announcing Med 3 so early, the sim-like direction taking shape, and the last time they tried to make Medieval 3.
www.gamesradar.com/games/total-...
"Medieval 3 is, in some sense, our Half-Life 3" – Total War: Medieval 3 is finally in the works, and Creative Assembly is leaning on immersion to make it worth the 19-year wait
Big Preview | Aiming for the "rebirth of historical Total War," Medieval 3's directors discuss their priorities and why the long-awaited strategy game is being announced so early
www.gamesradar.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Next on my Total War sicko beat: Medieval 3!
I caught up with creative director Leif Walter and game director Pawel Wojs to hear why CA is announcing Med 3 so early, the sim-like direction taking shape, and the last time they tried to make Medieval 3.
www.gamesradar.com/games/total-...
I caught up with creative director Leif Walter and game director Pawel Wojs to hear why CA is announcing Med 3 so early, the sim-like direction taking shape, and the last time they tried to make Medieval 3.
www.gamesradar.com/games/total-...
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PC Gaming Show is live now, my face is in it in a couple of places (sorry) but there's also a load of new games and chat / trailers from people much more talented than myself (not sorry)
Come watch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9DJ...
Come watch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9DJ...
PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted 2025
YouTube video by PC Gamer
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December 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
PC Gaming Show is live now, my face is in it in a couple of places (sorry) but there's also a load of new games and chat / trailers from people much more talented than myself (not sorry)
Come watch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9DJ...
Come watch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9DJ...
Anyone who's interacted with me for more than five seconds will know how much I love Total War, so I'm thrilled to have visited Creative Assembly for this month's Big Preview.
The cover story is below and I'd love for you to read it - there's loads more to come!
www.gamesradar.com/games/total-...
The cover story is below and I'd love for you to read it - there's loads more to come!
www.gamesradar.com/games/total-...
With 25 years of Total War under its belt, the future of Creative Assembly's iconic strategy series looks brighter than ever: "We've got the best roadmap we've ever had"
The Big Preview | In exclusive interviews with GamesRadar+, Creative Assembly leads talk Total War: Medieval 3, lessons learned from the Total War: Warhammer trilogy, and much more
www.gamesradar.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Anyone who's interacted with me for more than five seconds will know how much I love Total War, so I'm thrilled to have visited Creative Assembly for this month's Big Preview.
The cover story is below and I'd love for you to read it - there's loads more to come!
www.gamesradar.com/games/total-...
The cover story is below and I'd love for you to read it - there's loads more to come!
www.gamesradar.com/games/total-...
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There's not a single day that I don't think of my Dad, who passed away some time ago. But playing through Dispatch made thinking about him a little bit easier and I'll be forever grateful for it. If you all have a chance please give this a read.
www.gamesradar.com/games/advent...
www.gamesradar.com/games/advent...
How Dispatch helped me to see my father's death in a new light
Opinion | Escaping a long shadow with Robert Robertson
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November 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
There's not a single day that I don't think of my Dad, who passed away some time ago. But playing through Dispatch made thinking about him a little bit easier and I'll be forever grateful for it. If you all have a chance please give this a read.
www.gamesradar.com/games/advent...
www.gamesradar.com/games/advent...
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For inquiries, questions, tips, or dev interest in interviews - the best email to reach me is [email protected]
I'm incredibly excited (and nervous) to announce my own newsletter. An Evening at the Inn is an RPG-focused bi-weekly newsletter with original reporting and writing from me, a curation of the best writing on RPGs, and more. an-evening-at-the-inn.ghost.io/welcome-to-t...
December 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
For inquiries, questions, tips, or dev interest in interviews - the best email to reach me is [email protected]
sharing my spotify wrapped but you can only say nice things
December 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
sharing my spotify wrapped but you can only say nice things
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"If I'm not having fun, I just power through it" - Becca, on Balatro
November 28, 2025 at 9:33 AM
"If I'm not having fun, I just power through it" - Becca, on Balatro
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Dispatch's success has helped break the AA narrative genre's losing streak.
I dug into how Dispatch models how dropping adventure game convention – in this case the very concept of level design – can help a struggling genre rediscover its reason to exist.
www.gamesradar.com/games/advent...
I dug into how Dispatch models how dropping adventure game convention – in this case the very concept of level design – can help a struggling genre rediscover its reason to exist.
www.gamesradar.com/games/advent...
Dispatch's success shows a way forward for a struggling AA narrative genre
Opinion | Dispatch is an adventure game that ditches age-old "adventure" gameplay – and it shows how similar titles could re-find their purpose
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November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Dispatch's success has helped break the AA narrative genre's losing streak.
I dug into how Dispatch models how dropping adventure game convention – in this case the very concept of level design – can help a struggling genre rediscover its reason to exist.
www.gamesradar.com/games/advent...
I dug into how Dispatch models how dropping adventure game convention – in this case the very concept of level design – can help a struggling genre rediscover its reason to exist.
www.gamesradar.com/games/advent...
becoming a perpetual lemsip stew
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
becoming a perpetual lemsip stew
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Our Big Preview rollout for Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is a-go, with more to come from @mroscartk.bsky.social, @andybrown202.bsky.social, and myself! 🥰 Shout out to @agameofjoes.bsky.social for bringing the latest build in for me to try out 🧚 🦟 👀 👇
www.gamesradar.com/games/strate...
www.gamesradar.com/games/strate...
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is a "great pleasure" and a "great responsibility" for its superfan CEO, and he's governed by one guiding principle: "Heroes is for everyone"
The Big Preview | Unfrozen's Denis Fedorov on how his team of strategy game enthusiasts are breathing new life into the iconic franchise
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November 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Our Big Preview rollout for Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is a-go, with more to come from @mroscartk.bsky.social, @andybrown202.bsky.social, and myself! 🥰 Shout out to @agameofjoes.bsky.social for bringing the latest build in for me to try out 🧚 🦟 👀 👇
www.gamesradar.com/games/strate...
www.gamesradar.com/games/strate...
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GamesRadar+ is also hiring a hybrid UK-based Hardware & Tabletop Staff Writer.
Come work with @thewordyben.bsky.social and me!
Come work with @thewordyben.bsky.social and me!
Hardware & Tabletop Staff Writer, GamesRadar+ - Future Publishing
GamesRadar+ is the games, movies, TV, and comics website that upgrades your downtime; helping you spend your free time wisely.On GamesRadar+ we always aim to inform, entertain, and inspire through our...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
GamesRadar+ is also hiring a hybrid UK-based Hardware & Tabletop Staff Writer.
Come work with @thewordyben.bsky.social and me!
Come work with @thewordyben.bsky.social and me!
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We're hiring a guides writer at GamesRader. Like writing about games and solving puzzles? Then take a look. UK based but remote's okay. All the details are in the link. apply.workable.com/futureplc/j/...
Guides Writer, GamesRadar+ - Future Publishing
Future's Games group creates international, market-leading content, delivered through scale websites GamesRadar and PC Gamer, award-winning print brands, and Events that reach millions of gamers.The g...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We're hiring a guides writer at GamesRader. Like writing about games and solving puzzles? Then take a look. UK based but remote's okay. All the details are in the link. apply.workable.com/futureplc/j/...
Fast travel is real (it's called playing balatro on the train)
November 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Fast travel is real (it's called playing balatro on the train)
chrome trying to load more than two tabs on hotel wifi
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 AM
chrome trying to load more than two tabs on hotel wifi
Just watched episode 5 (this is now more mandatory)
November 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Just watched episode 5 (this is now more mandatory)
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Lil Lumines Arise review - still a puzzle format that gives me incredible highs and anxiety-ridden lows, but a lot of fun. I also grapple with the strange nature of reviewing iterative puzzle games.
Lumines Arise review: "Just as effective as Tetris Effect, block matching to a beat becomes a transcendent experience"
The latest Review,,,reviews, breaking news, comment, reviews and features from the experts at GamesRadar+
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November 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Lil Lumines Arise review - still a puzzle format that gives me incredible highs and anxiety-ridden lows, but a lot of fun. I also grapple with the strange nature of reviewing iterative puzzle games.
please watch the chair company (mandatory)
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
please watch the chair company (mandatory)
Watched Heat and Aliens for the first time this weekend and fear the dads were right on these ones 👁️
November 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Watched Heat and Aliens for the first time this weekend and fear the dads were right on these ones 👁️
Played Radiolight for this week's Indie Spotlight, and it's made me *very* excited to rewatch Twin Peaks over Christmas. Lovely, horrible little game about walking in the woods at night 🔦
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www.gamesradar.com/games/horror...
Radiolight channels Twin Peaks and Alan Wake for a late night walk in the woods, and I'm amazed a solo developer crammed so much atmosphere into this secret horror game
Indie Spotlight | There's something very, very strange in these old woods
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November 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Played Radiolight for this week's Indie Spotlight, and it's made me *very* excited to rewatch Twin Peaks over Christmas. Lovely, horrible little game about walking in the woods at night 🔦
www.gamesradar.com/games/horror...
www.gamesradar.com/games/horror...