
Ali Jones
I'm GamesRadar's Managing Editor for news, shaping the news strategy across the team. I started my journalistic career while getting my degree in English Literature at the University of Warwick, where I also worked as Games Editor on the student newspaper, The Boar. Since then, I've run the news sections at PCGamesN and Kotaku UK, and also regularly contributed to PC Gamer. As you might be able to tell, PC is my platform of choice, so you can regularly find me playing League of Legends or Steam's latest indie hit.
Latest articles by Ali Jones

Death Stranding 2 is pushing the Decima engine to new heights, and that's amazing news for Horizon Zero Dawn fans
By Ali Jones published
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
By Ali Jones published
News The Beast will be "a canon entry"

After Death Stranding 2, I'm more convinced than ever that we should absolutely not let Hideo Kojima go to space
By Ali Jones last updated
News We're not ready

Strategy game expert behind Manor Lords partners with Ubisoft for Heroes of Might and Magic prequel with 600,000 Steam wishlists
By Ali Jones published
News Olden Era takes the legendary franchise to a new location

Pokemon's hardest challenge has finally been completed after 15 months and "easily over 100k" collective attempts, and it took an absolute monster Crobat to do it
By Ali Jones published
News "I legitimately thought we'd be playing this for years"

You may not like it, but peak Death Stranding performance is this incredible road that took 5 hours to make
By Ali Jones published
News PC players are flooding back to the first game, with excellent results

With 21 million concurrent players, Roblox hit Grow a Garden is bigger than half of Steam combined, but players are already flooding another, far weirder competitor
By Ali Jones published
News It's called Steal a Brainrot, and I don't want to talk about it

Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remake takes a step closer to reality as lead voice actor tells fans "you may have to beat it again"
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News The good ship 'Black Flag Remake' is pretty leaky

The Outer Worlds 2 director "loves" complex RPG systems, which means if "you just want to blow stuff up, you never have to worry about stealth"
By Ali Jones published
News There's a true RPG sicko behind The Outer Worlds 2

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds mirrors Mario Kart World's move away from traditional 3-lap races with tracks that put you in a whole "different universe"
By Ali Jones published
News But how popular will it be?

Borderlands 4 dev says "the way we've done guns before is great," but Gearbox is still overhauling its weapons to offer even "more opportunity for surprise"
By Ali Jones published
News Gearbox is smashing whole manufacturers together for its new system

Don't expect The Witcher 4 to look exactly like its big showcase when it launches, as CD Projekt is "not guaranteeing that this will appear unchanged" in the full RPG
By Ali Jones published
News "Could this be recognized as gameplay? I think [...] a lot of people might see it like that"

Dying Light: The Beast director says great open-world games aren't about how big the map is, but about how good it feels to move around
By Ali Jones published
News "If it's hand-crafted, if it feels real, the player's satisfaction of being in that world is much bigger"

Desperate to avoid saying 'we want that $10 billion', League of Legends dev Riot Games tries to justify legalizing esports gambling sponsors, but players aren't buying it
By Ali Jones published
News "Riot hasn't handled gambling responsibly for nearly a decade"

"Chasing safe bets is a death sentence": Rematch devs had no desire to simply chase FIFA or Rocket League, but they spent years planning out their hit football game
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News "It was not a question of 'oh, Sifu did very well – what are we doing next?"

The Outer Worlds 2 was obviously inspired by Fallout: New Vegas, but if you're "tired" of hearing that, its director says it's got plenty of Deus Ex DNA too
By Ali Jones published
News Obsidian seems to have a confusing relationship with some of its RPG legacy

Dying Light: The Beast director says no-one expected Dying Light 1 to be "such a kickass game," but admits "we made some missteps" on Dying Light 2
By Ali Jones published
News Techland wants to prove it's still got its parkour zombie mojo

It's still "too early to talk about what will be in The Witcher 4," let alone The Witcher 5 and 6, but CDPR's new tech will "benefit all of the industry"
By Ali Jones published
News CDPR's work on Unreal Engine will be felt far beyond The Continent

Dying Light: The Beast director says he's "a little bit surprised" that more studios haven't followed Techland's "go anywhere" approach to open-world game design
By Ali Jones published
News Techland has pioneered some ideas that few studios have tried to replicate

Rematch devs "never considered free-to-play," even if it risked being "dead on arrival," because "the best way to make a commercial success is to just make a very good game"
By Ali Jones published
News "I think that if it's original and solid, plus very reasonably priced, players will get it"

Max Payne's iconic mug came about because of its creator's university TTRPG club, but he got so "self-conscious" after the game's release that he had to change his hairstyle to remain incognito
By Ali Jones published
News Sam Lake seems less worried about getting recognized these days

Ironeye is Elden Ring Nightreign's most useful character, but their anti-soulslike style bores me to tears
By Ali Jones published
Opinion Now Playing | I got my (iron)eye on literally any other class

Rematch dev says FIFA is "so disconnected from how it actually feels to play football," but his game "feels more dead-on"
By Ali Jones published
News If FIFA is a "football simulation," Rematch is a "football player simulation"
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