Ali Jones
I'm GamesRadar's news editor, working with the team to deliver breaking news from across the industry. 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
The Finals devs have been trying to stop players from lobbing C4 at each other for months, and they might have finally managed to kill the 'nuke meta'
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News Third time's a charm?
This Steam Next Fest was dominated by two massive strategy games, and that feels weird for an event all about discoverability
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News Opinion| Homeworld 3 and Stormgate were huge hits in the latest festival
17-year-old Counter-Strike prodigy carries his team to tournament victory in a performance dubbed one of the greatest in the history of the game
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news Danil "donk" Kryshkovets dominated IEM Katowice
Starfield and Halo are reportedly not part of the first Xbox exclusives coming to PS5
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News Pentiment and Hi-Fi Rush could be the first games to make the jump
From Metroidvanias to roguelikes, survival games to strategy games, here are the best things we played during Steam Next Fest
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News Here are the indie games to keep an eye on
Former Mass Effect and Dragon Age director says he "wouldn't go back" to the way BioWare makes games
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News "I could tip a beer and tell you all about my frustrations at BioWare and EA"
I watched in horror as the man who helped shape Dragon Age and Mass Effect got chewed up by his own survival game
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News Preview| Aaryn Flynn shows off the deadlier side of Nightingale
My winning tactic in this certified hit Steam Next Fest strategy game is eating as many bananas as possible for Skyrim-style healing
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News I'm already locked in to Backpack Battles
Stellar Blade dev, also known for butt-jiggling game Nikke, says he "put special attention" into the female lead's back because that's what players see most of the time
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News "This is entertainment for adults"
Elden Ring parent company buys studio behind some of the best JRPGs of recent years
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News Acquire, developer of Octopath Traveller, has been acquired
The video game industry is "a disaster zone" according to Starfield and Deux Ex star who had three projects canceled in quick succession
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News Elias Toufexis half expects other projects to be canceled too
The dark horse of Steam Next Fest is this open-world zombie survival game that feels like an homage to the best game in the genre, but you'll have to be patient with it
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Dread Dawn even boasts a touch of Shaun of the Dead
Palworld update finally fixes Lifmunk Effigy catch rate issue, and stops breeding Pals from going to sleep "forever"
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News Those Lifmunk statues are finally working as intended
To survive as an indie dev, "I must reuse everything," says solo designer who pivoted from an aerial combat sim to a hotly-anticipated city builder
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News The two very different games exist in the same universe
My early Steam Next Fest highlight is like an idle Stardew Valley, but I promise it's not as distracting as it sounds
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News Rusty's Retirement isn't the time-sink it might sound like
Amid Xbox multiplatform rumors, Halo job listing says future games will be "for all players, on all platforms"
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News Phil Spencer will address Xbox's future next week
Chronically unlucky Baldur's Gate 3 streamer tries to stop, but accidentally murders Lae'zel in front of the RPG character's own voice actress with some truly awful timing
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News The dice are never truly in your favor
The best bit of my new favorite city builder is the massive, hulking LEGO towers it lets me build
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News Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles lets you build sprawling towers on precarious cliff faces
Battle royale fan sentenced to 18 months in jail for dodging military service after Supreme Court rejects claim he's 'anti-violence' because of his PUBG playtime
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News Anti-violent sentiments don't line up with violent games, apparently
I nearly gave up on this mountaineering adventure game, but then I finally learned how to read its world
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Feature Indie Spotlight | A Highland Song is its own kind of 'map game'
Palworld has patched my favorite glitch, and I'm quietly devastated
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News T-Pose Glide, we hardly knew ye
This cyberpunk platformer is neck-and-neck with Palworld as the best-rated Steam game of 2024 so far
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News Anomaly Agent has almost perfect Steam reviews
Palworld isn't on PS5, but PlayStation is getting another mega-hit survival game thanks to V Rising
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News Sony's taking a bite out of its missing survival backlog