Latest articles by Ali Jones
Elden Ring Nightreign duos mode should have been the perfect update, but it's lacking both the challenge and the chaos that make the base game so good
Opinion Opinion | I see FromSoft's original no-duos vision, and I wish we could go back
Baldur's Gate 3 devs throw a bone to advocates of what would be the RPG's weirdest romance option - by shaming us for not keeping her alive
News Sazza lovers of the world unite
I don't know what's worse - the 4,000 Baldur's Gate 3 sicko who beat the RPG's Honour Mode at level 1, or the 30,000 who did it with an objectively terrible build
News There are simply not enough hours on Ao's green earth
League of Legends' very bad year continues as Riot pulls sloppy AI video offline amid fan criticism: "WTF how is this real"
News AI-gen Ezreal can't hurt you anymore
'Legally distinct Mad Max' is a worthy successor to one of the most underrated open-world games of the last 10 years, and it's got near-perfect Steam reviews to boot
News Avalanche's Mad Max enjoyers, meet FUMES
Dying Light: The Beast will have guns that feel "on par with melee combat," as Techland struggles to solve the series' "complicated" relationship with firearms
News Dying Light's franchise director is "really proud" of how the gunplay has turned out
"I'm trying to be ultimate good boy": Meet the Oblivion Remastered player on a quest to become "peak knight" by accruing all the RPG's most virtuous gear and titles
News It's noble, but it could never be me
Fallout creator Tim Cain says players misunderstand the series' signature "gray morality" and he'd love to make a sequel that truly explores the main theme: "Power corrupts"
News "There's people who think there's a solution. There isn't."
Senior The Witcher 4 dev admits he's a little worried about making an RPG better than The Witcher 3, but he knows that "this stuff is subjective" and doesn't "see video games as mathematical"
News "We want to do justice to the legacy of The Witcher 3"
Sifu wasn't just a kung-fu game, say its devs, and Rematch is actually a "samurai game" and not a football game
News I think I've been playing it wrong
"Ur gov is dumb": Rule 34 site drops "gooner TLDR" as the UK begins its crusade against Marvel Rivals porn, promises "we're looking into solutions" as petition quickly gets 65,000 signatures
News The UK's Online Safety Act came into force on July 25
Rematch's first big patch makes being a goalkeeper even more terrifying, because improved hit detection means I'm being mobbed on every goal kick
News My controller can't get much sweatier
"If I start playing Assassin's Creed Shadows, I know I will never finish it": Dying Light: The Beast director says his game is just the right size to let you get "every dollar" out of it
News "Finishing it basically at some point starts feeling like a chore"
The League of Legends Balatro homage I thought I'd never see again is back, thanks to a major MOBA preservation win
News Riot's helped preserve old in-game content within LoL's community wiki
Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor was "pretty unsurprised" to learn she played the RPG's most-romanced character: "People are going to love this, and love her"
News Jen English is never beating the 'God's favorite Princess' allegations
Dying Light: The Beast is longer than Techland expected, with 20 to 30 hours of "additional stuff" on top of the 20-hour story
News The game "grew a lot" over its last few months of development
Dying Light: The Beast devs asked playtesters to score every single quest, and the last one is so "close to perfect" that its director is desperate for you to finish the game
News "It really pays to complete the game"
Dying Light: The Beast is not trying to be The Last of Us, it's just trying to be a good time: "We really don't need to be overtly philosophical"
News "We don't really need to be asking players about morality and all of that stuff
Rematch dev is "sorry" that players wanted more Sifu, "but for the moment it was better to let it rest"
News Sloclap had "given everything we had on Sifu"
FIFA and Rocket League aren't major Rematch competitors, according to director who says that fans of the football game "don't have an alternative" to play instead
News And Football Manager certainly doesn't count
Rematch director doesn't want to make "$50-100 million" games, "because that's what the big studios do" and all it does is limit the studio's creative freedom
News And that just makes it harder to survive in a tough industry
Death Stranding 2 is pushing the Decima engine to new heights, and that's amazing news for Horizon Zero Dawn fans
News "Imagine what Horizon 3 is gonna look like"
Dying Light: The Beast will "hint at the future of the series," which is why it's doing away with Dying Light 2's narrative choices
News The Beast will be "a canon entry"
