Latest articles by Ali Jones
Arrowhead's next game "won't be something that's too far off from" Helldivers 2, creative lead says: "We're looking to continue the legacy of what we've created"
News Johan Pilestedt wants fans to "recognize the DNA" of what came before in the studio's next game
Arrowhead creative lead agrees with Helldivers 2 players, calls the game "a never-ending ping pong between 'it's so over' and 'we're so back,'" but says "we're trying to get better with each update"
News Johan Pilestedt tips his hat to the Helldivers 2 community's definition
The Witcher's long-time voice of Geralt isn't worried about Ciri's actor taking over as the RPG's star: "She's going to do a great job"
News Ciri's leading CD Projekt Red's upcoming game, The Witcher 4
GTA 6 might be the "massive game with massive marketing," but The Witcher 3 director doesn't mind launching his next RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker at the same time: "I'm fine with it"
News Rebel Wolves' Konrad Tomaszkiewicz is the coolest guy in the room
"We are more effective than bigger teams": Ahead of Blood of Dawnwalker's release next year, Rebel Wolves lead says he doesn't want the studio to grow
News "Because we don't have so many people, people feel responsible for some parts of the game, and feel ownership of it. And I think that this is the most important thing"
The Witcher legend Doug Cockle agrees "there's so many great games this year," but Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the highlight: "It's such a beautifully written game, and beautifully conceived and achieved"
News Many people are saying this
GTA 6, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Peak, and Ghost of Yotei all win big after Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's mammoth Golden Joystick Awards haul
News Four games claimed runners-up status
RPGs reign supreme as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 ties Baldur's Gate 3's record-breaking Golden Joystick Awards haul
News 7 awards beats the record set by The Last of Us Part 2
The Witcher 3 director says his upcoming RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker isn't "going fully into the vampire fantasy," and expect some Dishonored vibes
News Half-hominid, half-spirit
"We know that the players are the ones actually enjoying the game": Moonlighter 2 owes its existence to its devs' astonishingly in-depth approach to player feedback
On the Radar Testing, testing, testing
After 2 roguelikes, an acclaimed strategy game, and a League of Legends spin-off all in just 7 years, the Moonlighter 2 devs explain how new ideas are key to their survival
On the Radar Digital Sun is on an incredible run
Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault review: "Dungeon delving, balancing sacks of loot, then hawking your wares is still a compelling loop – but the exchange rate between those pillars is wobbly in early access"
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The Witcher author says "there is no cooperation at all between me and the games," and he won't play The Witcher 4 because "it's not an entertainment for me"
News "I never played the games, so I know practically nothing about it"
Resident Evil royalty will host the Golden Joystick Awards 2025, with Ultimate Game of the Year voting now open
News Maggie Robertson, Lady Dimetrescu herself, will host this year's ceremony
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 are leading a turn-based renaissance, and it's leaving games like Pokemon Legends: Z-A far behind
Opinion It's a good time to be a strategy sicko
Critical Role 4 DM Brennan Lee Mulligan confirms the D&D campaign's big bad, and I've got a feeling no amount of natural 20s is gonna beat this one
News I know DMs that use subtexts, and they're all cowards
Critical role 4 newcomer says she's in "a race to the bottom" with one of her co-stars: "I made the mistake of thinking I could out-troll him"
News Tyranny and Wicander are causing problems on purpose
Pokemon Legends Z-A tests my 25 years of Pokemon experience in all the wrong ways, and I'm begging Game Freak to ease up on the tutorials
Opinion "I know more than you"
Pokemon Legends: Z-A might have overhauled combat even more than I thought, with an entire set of strategies sacrificed on the real-time altar
News My Absol would like a word
The last time I was this obsessed with a Balatro-like, it sold 750,000 copies in 2 weeks – and this one has a D&D twist so it's easily my favorite roguelike in Steam Next Fest
News Slots & Daggers is a strong entry in a crowded field
Ball x Pit review: "Vampire Survivors and Breakout collide in this brilliant roguelike ball basher that struggles with repetition"
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The biggest roguelike in Steam Next Fest is a Braveheart-inspired musou fighter with almost perfect reviews
News You'll never take our free-demo
I never really vibed with XCOM 2, but this Steam Next Fest demo is a turn-based strategy RPG I can finally get behind
News Menace's suppression system fixes everything that annoyed me about XCOM
