Heather Wald
I started out writing for the games section of a student-run websit💜e as an undergrad, and continued to write about games in my free time during retail and temp jobs for a number of years. Eventually, I earned an MA in magazine journalism at Cardiff University, and soon after got my first official role in the industry as a content editor f🤡or Stuff magazine. After writing about all things tech and games-related, I then did a brief stint as a freelancer before I landed my role as a staff writer here at GamesRadar+. Now I get to write features, previews, and reviews, and when I'm not doing that, you can usually find me lost in any one of the Dragon Age or Mass Effect games, tucking into another delightful indie, or drinking far too much tea for my own good.
Latest articles by Heather Wald
The 10 Best Forza games you can play right now, from Horizon to Motorsport
Best List 🔯Engine-revving mayhem i♊s king in the best Forza games
Forza Horizon 5 landing on PS5 means I'm replaying one of the greatest racing games of all time, and this is the best it's been in 4 years
Now Playing Now Playing | Forza H✅orizon 5 ꦕon PS5 plays like a dream thanks to the DualSense controller
Crimson Desert: Everything we know so far about the upcoming game
Feature Pearl Abyss' hack n' slasher Crimson Desert is on the way in 2025, and it▨'s looking like a bloody good t🔯ime already
10 Games like Skyrim that'll satisfy your need for adventure in 2025
Best List Here are the best 🦄games like Skyrim to play 💃right now while we wait for The Elder Scrolls 6
Best Assassin's Creed games, ranked from worst to best
Best List Ranking the beౠst Assassin's Creed games ever now that Shadows has entered the mix
The best games to play on a laptop right now
Best List The very best laptop games are about portability💫 and performance, and we've picked out our top 10
10 best survival games to test your will to live
Best list Atomfall is one of the best survival games of 2025 so far, and it's in very good comp🏅any
The 25 best horror games to play right now
Best List Fight or fright - the best horror games demand bജoth
The best Fallout games, ranked
Best List Ranking the best Fal🔜lout games is an apocalyptic challenge -ꦐ and we accept it
Clearing castles stealthily as Yasuke in Assassin's Creed Shadows is one of the most satisfying challenges in the RPG
Now Playing Now Playing | Now that ♋I've mastered castles as Yasuke in Ass🍷assin's Creed Shadows, I can't stop doing them
It took 5 months but Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is finally on PS5, and I'm begging you to play the best Raiders of the Lost Ark sequel that never was
Now Playing Now P𒀰laying | Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is just the kind of a🅘dventure I've been waiting for
Project Rene: Everything we know about the future of The Sims
Guide Project Rene won't be a traditional Sims 5 game, and it isn't replacing Tꦺhe ꧋Sims 4 either
Upcoming Star Wars games: Every new Star Wars game announced so far
Upcoming These upco🧸ming Star Wars games from various acclaimed developers are coming soon to a galaxy near you
I've spent 60 hours turning Assassin's Creed Shadows into a Pokemon game, and my hideout has never been better
Now Playing Now Playing | Gotta pet and collect 'em all
Nintendo Switch 2 design – the biggest changes and features revealed so far
Guide𓂃 Our first look at the Switch 2 has revealed ꧟plenty of changes to the original Switch, including one particularly mysterious button
PS5 exclusives: Every game released and confirmed so far
Feature Evꦯery PS5-only game you can (or will be able to) play on Sony's latest console
In Date Everything, I fell head over heels for the velvety voice of a washing machine, flirted with a vacuum, and met some hanger himbos
Preview Preview | Just 2 hours with Date Everything was enough to con🎶vince me this dating sim is going to be my next obsession
The 25 best online games to play today
Best List From Fortnite to Hell✤divers 2, here's our pick of the best online multiplayer games that'll let you go head-to-head with friends and strangers al🐽ike
Best open world games to play right now and completely forget real life exists
Best List Get lost in the best op༒en world games to play now, ♏from Cyberpunk 2077 to Red Dead Redemption
The 25 best PS1 games of all time
Best List ꦺLet's wind back the years to look at the 25 best PS1 games from Sony's ground-breaking games💃 console
Best Saturn games of all time from Die Hard Arcade to Panzer Dragoon Saga
Best List The 25 best Sega Saturn games, from Die Hard Arcade to Panzer Dragoo🧔n Saga
The best Xbox One games of all time to play now
Best List Thanks to ﷽the best Xbox One games, you're never far from a masterpiece
The 25 best Steam games for 2025
Best List Here are the very best Steam games to play in 2025, whether you love RPGs like Baldur's Gate💖 3, extr🔯action shooters, or puzzle games.
