Latest articles by Ali Jones
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
"I will overlook sh**ty game mechanics for hours if I'm enjoying the story": Skyrim and Fallout veteran says RPGs "live and die" on narrative
News "RPGs live and die on story"
I think Keanu Reeves is in the new Armored Core adaptation, and I can't believe no one's saying anything about it
News Wake up, we've got a mech to burn
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Collector's Edition comes with 3 days' early access and a conspiracy theory-covered globe
News A touch of class, a touch of paranoia
Everything announced at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2024
LIVE Opening Night Live 2024 has come and gone, but what a showcase it was
Black Myth: Wukong Steam player count surpasses Palworld as the action RPG surges past Counter-Strike 2 to become Steam's second-biggest game ever
News It's Steam's biggest-ever single-player launch
Skyrim veteran says he got into fights with his Bethesda colleagues over the RPG's most notoriously heavy item: "You can't just give the player everything they want"
News You can blame Jeff Gardiner next time you're over-encumbered
Hollow Knight: Silksong reclaims its Steam wishlists crown, 3 years and 6 competitors since it last held the title
News Silksong is the most-wishlisted game on Steam...again
Manor Lords publisher says game devs and big corpos don't get on because making games is "fundamentally unpredictable"
News Hooded Horse's execs think self-publishing is a pretty good idea
Baldur's Gate 3 director turned his back on RTS for RPG at the start of his career - just before the strategy game boom that brought us StarCraft, Homeworld, and Age of Empires
News Swen Vincke thought "RTS was not something people were going to be interested in"
Fallout: New Vegas helped inspire Dishonored creator's new RPG hybrid: "We like the structure, the size, the humor, the possibilities"
News "It's simply one of my favorite Fallouts"
"We're brothers": Dishonored and Prey director reflects on 20 years at Arkane as he unveils his new RPG-infused immersive sim
News Raphael Colantonio understands the importance of Arkane DNA
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom mapper discovers a weird geographical plot hole that puts Hyrule in direct opposition to Skyrim
News There's not an estuary to be found in Hyrule
Baldur's Gate 3 player hacks their way into the game's rarest ending to find an alternative that's literally impossible to achieve
News Larian's hiding an ending that it made but never shipped
The Last of Us Online's cancelation reportedly landed some Sony devs in hot water: "There were some heads rolling as a result of that one"
News "That getting canceled was not a bloodless affair"
Fallout creator shares early development footage of The Outer Worlds, says his team managed in 1 year what some devs couldn't do in 4
News "Go Team Outer Worlds"
Baldur's Gate 3's Lae'zel borrowed her fighting style from a legendary samurai's fight with his sleep paralysis demon
News Gotta get your inspiration from somewhere
Black Myth: Wukong isn't even out, but its new feedback tool just amassed more than 60,000 players on Steam
News Being Steam's most-wishlisted game has its perks
After a 14-year wait, the original Red Dead Redemption might finally be coming to PC
News It's already available nearly everywhere else
GTA 6 might already be using AI-powered animation tech, says San Andreas dev: "If anyone is going to make that step it's going to be Rockstar"
News "It's time for a revolution"
