Latest articles by Ali Jones
There's a whole management sim hiding inside one of Steam Next Fest's best roguelikes - and I might prefer shopkeeping to adventuring
News Moonlighter 2 might actually be 3 games in 1
My favorite Steam Next Fest city-builder so far is a chill sequel to Plague Inc, but I still ended up feeding dogs to my citizens
News After Inc. proves the post-apocalypse is never a walk in the park
As Stellar Blade PC gets booted off the Steam Next Fest charts, a sci-fi FPS that's everything I actually wanted from Starfield is rising up to take its place
News Shift Up's loss is Jump Ship's gain
I swore revenge on PUBG creator's nails-hard survival game at Steam Next Fest, but it kicked my ass harder than ever
News Prologue: Go Wayback is not messing around
I carved through my first dangerously addictive Steam Next Fest demo with the power of 'shotgun magic' in this mystical twist on Hotline Miami
News Mage Tower Massacre has some surprisingly shooty spells at its fingertips
I broke this roguelike FPS Steam Next Fest demo wide open once I combined its gritty freerunning with a gun that spams pandas
News I can only apologize to the developers of High Fructose
The biggest strategy game in Steam Next Fest is a medieval siege MMO from cult devs - but it's impossible to play it most the time and I have to wait 5 hours to get in
News Please, Anvil Empires, just let me play
The Stellar Blade PC release was briefly the biggest demo at Steam Next Fest, but it's been overtaken by a controversial soulslike MMORPG revival that shares at least one thing with Stellar Blade itself
News Vindictus: Defying Fate is garnering a lot of attention
I lost all my progress in a single catastrophic fall in this impossibly hard open-world Steam Next Fest demo, and I'm not even a tiny bit mad about it
News Baby Steps is the latest piece of psychological warfare from the creator of Getting Over It
Legendary roguelike dev behind The Binding of Isaac finally reveals the release date for his cat-eugenics strategy game, 13 years after it was originally announced
News First announced in 2012, Mewgenics is almost upon us
The Outer Worlds 2 "basically borrowed" Fallout: New Vegas' excellent Perks system, and I'm already spinning up an amazing stealth RPG build
News Complete with knee-popping realism
Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade and Final Fantasy 16 are both coming to Xbox - and one of them is available today
News Final Fantasy 7 + Final Fantasy 16 = Final Fantasy 23: Adrian's Revenge
3 years after telling us Hollow Knight Silksong would release in 1 year, Xbox once again hints vaguely at a release date, this time linked to its new handheld
News It's been a bad week for Silksong fans
Former GTA and Red Dead dev's ritualistic horror game is expanding on its planned PC-only launch, and is now releasing on consoles too
News Ritual Tides just got bigger
This fighting game lets you give your opponents a time-bending beat-down across three timelines at once
News Tenet of the Spark has some excellent Sifu vibes
Hercule Poirot hits the dancefloor in this 70s spin on a classic Agatha Christie novel
News Death on the Nile, or murder on the dancefloor?
Put your water-bending skills to the test in action adventure Fading Echo
News Could Aang literally become a drop of water? I didn't think so
