
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

Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is set in "a much more immersive city than we were ever able to do before" thanks to the tech built for The Skywalker Saga
By Scott McCrae published
News "We have new opportunities because of new technology"

Beyond These Stars is the weirdest city-builder I've ever seen, thanks to a giant space whale that can go rogue if it gets too hungry
By Ali Jones published
Hands-on Gamescom | This city-builder doubles as an intergalactic shipping simulator, and it was easily one of my Gamescom highlights

The stealthy spirit of Arkham Knight returns in Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, and I never believed a Lego game could pull this off
By Ali Jones published
Hands-on Hands-on | Gotham's goons never saw me coming

Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight's combat was inspired by the Arkham series: "We also wanted to bring our own Lego approach to that foundation"
By Scott McCrae published
News "When we think about embodying Batman as a video game character today, of course we're inspired"

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is filling the Mario Kart-shaped hole in my life that World isn't, and I'm as shocked by that as anyone
By Ali Jones published
News I never saw it coming

Left 4 Dead has held the horde shooter crown for 17 years, but John Carpenter's Toxic Commando is the best challenger yet
By Ali Jones published
Preview Gamescom 2025 | 17 years later, could a new zombie shooter claim the crown?

Dune: Awakening dev says "when we do bring stuff like sandworm riding into the game, it'll feel like an epic moment like in the movies," but you can't "trivialize the sandworm" because that breaks Dune
By Issy van der Velde published
news You shall respect The Maker

Dune: Awakening dev says player retention has been "extremely good" and the MMO's 10-year plan still has "so much to pull from" in the lore: "We'll go to new planets eventually"
By Kaan Serin published
News Production director Ole Andreas Hayley would love to visit the Atreides home planet, Caladan

The Blood of Dawnwalker "isn’t that big" because its small team with Witcher 3 vets would rather prioritize "layers" and "didn't want to make an open world for, like, 400 hours"
By Kaan Serin published
News The RPG will take around 40 hours to complete on a normal playthrough

Dune: Awakening is a bit more “like a Dune survival RPG” than a full MMO, with multiplayer driving "that feeling of the universe being alive”
By Austin Wood published
News Survival enthusiasts, MMO socialites, PvE hermits, and PvP menaces must all coexist

"For five months there was one programmer fixing bugs": Valheim devs were not prepared for their Viking survival game's explosive success
By Issy van der Velde published
News Got to make it playable before you can add more

This open-world game where you're a 13th-century Mongolian horse courier immediately proved more hardcore than anything Death Stranding 2 could offer
By Ali Jones published
Preview Preview | Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori is the hardest open-world game you'll play this year

The new vampire RPG from The Witcher 3 devs is slowly revealing its vampire powers, and it's starting to sound like the medieval Dishonored I didn't know I wanted until now
By Ali Jones published
News Calamity Brencis

Former Witcher 3 devs' new vampire RPG lets you go straight to the final boss just like in Breath of the Wild, but it's "extremely difficult"
By Ali Jones published
News Calamity Brencis

Phantom Blade Zero director crafts enormous boots for himself, suggesting his action RPG is a blend of Dark Souls, The Witcher 3, and Baldur's Gate 3
By Ali Jones published
News That's quite the pedigree

Smash hit kickstarter open-world game Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori shows off the beauty of its Mongolian setting
By Ali Jones published
News Ahead of an upcoming early access release date

The new vampire RPG from The Witcher 3 devs promises "three layers of choices," but while that might "sound intimidating," there's actually still plenty of freedom
By Ali Jones published
News Vale Sangora is your oyster

Some of Disco Elysium's best ideas are still around in Zero Parades, but the CRPG thriller has an almost impossible task ahead of it
By Ali Jones published
Gamescom Gamescom 2025 | Zero Parades is an spy thriller CRPG where you're an "anti-Bond" who's haunted by her past failures, but can it step out from Disco Elysium's shadow?
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