Latest articles by Ali Jones
No Man's Sky Aquarius is the fishing update that Hello Games is "finally" adding after 8 years - and it was inspired by a single piece of fan art
News That must be some really good fan art
Red Dead Redemption 2 actor say's he'd "absolutely" play Arthur Morgan in a TV adaptation, but that probably won't happen because Hollywood doesn't understand mocap
News "One of the reasons is because of the misconception that it's voice acting"
One of the OG Grand Theft Auto devs has a new game coming, and it's basically the exact opposite of GTA's violent open-world
News Plentiful is a "relaxing" god game all about helping nature thrive
"This is definitely my biggest life achievement": Idle Stardew Valley-like Rusty's Retirement hits top 50 highest-rated Steam games among the 11,000+ released this year
News That's 11,219 and counting
Palworld dev hopes to "help more indie devs" after the survival game's runaway success: "We were in the same position only a year ago until Palworld changed our lives"
News Palworld is one of the lucky ones
As the Borderlands movie slides into oblivion and Risk of Rain 2's new DLC burns, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford compares himself to The Beatles, who he says only "had a 25% hit rate"
News "I'm sure every song they recorded was done with love and commitment to the art"
Star Wars Outlaws stormtroopers don't have seatbelts, and that means players are already turning their speeders into death traps
News Yet another Empire Heath & Safety oversight
After 27 long years, Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions finally acknowledges that Quidditch is a dumb sport - by hard-nerfing the Golden Snitch
News Suck on this, Viktor Krum
Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity: Original Sin 2 were priced "below their value" because Larian devs "had faith" they could recover the cost
News "I care about people's cost of living and had faith in our recoup"
Legendary designer behind F-Zero and Star Fox nearly worked at Konami, but his mom told him to take the job at Nintendo
News Takaya Imamura eventually spent more than 30 years with the company
Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford wanted Tiny Tina's Wonderlands campaign DLC, but there was "no way to do that and put the focus on Borderlands 4 that we needed to"
News "I’m sorry I couldn’t talk about it at the time"
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle devs are "thrilled" to bring the game to PS5, which won't be too hard because it was made with multiplatform tech anyway
News The more the merrier
Civilization 7 lets you "change the course of your own history" between each of its ages, before everything culminates in "sudden death"
News "When you get to the end of the modern age, you've got this truly multicultural empire that you've built"
Fallout: New Vegas' "large, interconnected story" where "any character can die" is the best comparison for Atomfall's apocalyptic RPG structure
News But Stalker, Metro, and even BioShock have also helped shape the game
For a few beautiful hours, the Borderlands movie's $90m flop wasn't the worst-reviewed film of the summer
News The Crow debuted to even worse reviews before climbing higher
Fallout veteran says he was so proud to see the TV show succeed - especially given the Borderlands movie's $90m failure
News Borderlands is "a fantastic game - but, man, that movie's being pilloried"
Halo Infinite dev shuts down complaints that players were banned for teabagging: "Yeah, that's not a thing"
News There's something else at play here
Randy Pitchford wasn't the only one teasing Borderlands 4, because another Gearbox developer basically spoiled the reveal trailer 2 years ago
News "I could teleport a moon"
Dishonored creator's Fallout: New Vegas-inspired immersive sim prefers stylized art to ultra-realism that ages fast – "Back then it was probably stunning, now you can't even look at it"
News "You look at some old Zelda, and it's still cute"
Civilization 7 director teases "sudden death" wins that will keep you in the game even if you're way behind: "The chance to get that victory is pretty much always there"
News Victory from the jaws of defeat
Dune: Awakening's survival game mechanics took inspiration from an unlikely source: EA's PS1-era Harry Potter games from 20 years ago
News Flipendo is the little-death that brings total obliteration
Borderlands 4 fans theorize the return of Handsome Jack, and that could mean a decade-old plotline is coming with him
News You might want to catch up on your Borderlands lore
BioWare says it spent 200,000 hours testing Dragon Age: The Veilguard - and that's just for the RPG's PC version
News That includes 10,000 hours dedicated to keyboard and mouse research
