Ali Jones

Ali Jones

Managing Editor, News

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

Wardogs character points weapon at the camera
"It's Californian bulls***": Wardogs CEO calls out devs who earn $100K but won't work overtime

By Ali Jones Published

News "When you're on the eve of releasing a game that keeps you all employed, work's more important"

News
Wardogs soldier running
"Go play GTA 6, we need to detox": Wardogs studio Bulkhead is taking a month-long break

By Ali Jones Published

News I don't need telling twice

News
Grand Theft Auto VI screenshot
GTA 6 promises to be an RPG like nothing the series has ever seen, but Rockstar says there's still a balance to strike

By Ali Jones Published

News Rockstar doesn't want you to "reject" its systems

6 Comments
News
Ellie and Joel in a car in The Last of Us.
The Last of Us directors used to say "nobody" was making games like them

By Ali Jones Published

News "If we can do what we do with Uncharted with this other genre - nobody's doing that"

News
GTA 6
"Please tell me you're kidding": GTA 6's two delays flabbergasted Take-Two CEO

By Ali Jones Published

News "A lot of people would say, ‘You’d just better figure out how to ship it.’

News
Headshot of Todd Howard, executive producer and game director of Bethesda Game Studios. Image supplied to GamesRadar by BGS.
Before Skyrim, Todd Howard said a "brute force" Fallout 3 system shaped the RPG's iconic open world

By Ali Jones last updated

News "We just kept building this script"

News
Cyclops in Marvel Rivals
The 25 best free Steam games you can play right now

By Ali Jones last updated

Best List Save some pennies with the best free Steam games worth playing

Best List
A character battles a goblin in Fable 4
"Fable's original combat has a legacy of being quite approachable," so the RPG's devs don't want to change that with the new game

By Ali Jones Published

News "That's something we kept in mind while developing our combat system"

10 Comments
News
Golden Joystick Awards
007: First Light, Big Walk, and Resident Evil: Requiem lead the Golden Joystick Awards nominations

By Ali Jones Published

News Voting is live now, and closes on October 23

News
A man is shot in Wardogs
Wardogs price will increase in early access: "If you don't agree with that, please don't buy it"

By Dustin Bailey Published

News "It is a big FPS game that costs money to make – the end"

News
GTA 6
GTA 6 won't beat the GOTY record set by Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

By Ali Jones Published

News GTA 6 isn't eligible for this year's Golden Joystick Awards

28 Comments
News
Wardogs player manning minigun looking out of a helicopter
Wardogs CEO braces for an Arc Raiders situation: "We're not going to have enough content for people"

By Anthony McGlynn Published

News Bulkhead accepts the playerbase will shrink

News
PCGS
Here's how to watch this year's PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct

By Ali Jones Published

News The show returns this weekend

News
Wardogs character points weapon at the camera
Wardogs studio checks the Steam accounts of their hires to make sure they're "passionate about FPS"

By Kaan Serin Published

News "I wouldn't know what we're talking about."

11 Comments
News
Palworld 1.0 trailer screenshot of huge green pal
Palworld lead worries Steam early access "lost its meaning," players treat it as "a normal game"

By Austin Wood Published

News "It's getting harder on Steam, sadly"

26 Comments
News
The Expanse: Osiris Reborn swings for the Mass Effect crown, but struggles to match my enthusiasm for the TV show

By Ali Jones Published

Hands-on After going hands-on, it's hard to show off a great RPG – even if it's building off an acclaimed sci-fi franchise

Hands-on
The Captain and Taffie look out across the city from the window of a metro train in Ananta
Ananta is riding high off 'free anime GTA' comparisons, but its mess of ideas barely hold together in my hands-on

By Ali Jones Published

Hands-on A heady stew made up of GTA, Spider-Man, and Uncharted ingredients leaves an overpowering taste, but this free open world is staggering

Hands-on
Palworld creature with white snakes for hair
Palworld 1.1 is "something players have been screaming at us to do" after "soft prologue" of 1.0

By Austin Wood Published

News Palworld 1.1 has a surprise in store

13 Comments
News
Key art for Substructure showing a silhouette of a character descending into a complex factory on an elevator
This Stardew Valley-inspired factory sim takes one of Factorio's hardest and best mods and reaches new depths

By Ali Jones Published

Preview A factory sim with layers

Preview
Salt, an octopus, pilots a mech suit in Exodus on a red planet
Exodus steps out of Mass Effect's shadow with combat that builds on BioWare's RPG and a galaxy I itch to explore

By Ali Jones Published

Hands-on After finally playing this sci-fi RPG for myself, Mass Effect 5 is here and it's Exodus

Hands-on
Worms Galactic Tactics is such a good strategy roguelike that I can't believe it didn't already exist

By Ali Jones Published

Hands-on Worm-Based Strategy comes for the XCOM crown

Hands-on
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis isn't classic Lara Croft, but it manages to dodge modern gaming's worst excesses

By Ali Jones Published

Features Game director Raul Siquera talks balancing the tightrope between old and new with a rebuild of such an iconic title

Features
Red cloaked characters look out across a fantasy expanse of fractured earth, land, and waterfalls with the one closest wielding a staff with a glowing blue orb - in the distance, a dragon flies
"We all benefit": How the devs behind Endless Legend went from Early Access pioneers to Civ 7 challengers

By Ali Jones Published

Interview As Endless Legend 2 reaches the end of Early Access and Amplitude Studios get ready to dive into Humankind 2, the strategy developer talks player expectations

Interview
Sekhmet grins with her claws out
People don't understand Steam player numbers, Palworld lead says: "Poor Marathon"

By Austin Wood Published

News "Not to dog on SteamDB, because I love those guys"

48 Comments
News
Palworld trainer pointing
Pocketpair lead thought if Palworld 1.0 hit 200k players, "that'd be party time" – it passed 900k

By Austin Wood Published

News "Very life changing for the studio"

News
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