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

Cairn
One of Steam Next Fest's biggest survival games was a supremely zen rock-climbing experience - right up until I fell to my death

By Ali Jones Published

News Cairn is tearing up the survival game charts

News
Half Sword
Steam Next Fest's first big hit is a brutal medieval combat sim where I bludgeoned three other peasants with a candlestick

By Ali Jones Published

News Half Sword is a massive early breakout

News
Stray Children
Undertale comes full circle as the JRPG creator who inspired it says his new game is inspired by Undertale

By Ali Jones Published

News The cycle repeats

News
Borderlands 4 screenshot of grinning enemy from Amon trailer
Borderlands 4 butcher slaughters 3,000 bosses over 150 hours to prove just how bad the shooter's drop rates are: "I am pretty much done"

By Ali Jones Published

News Prepare for a hefty loot grind

News
Mega Raichu X
Pokemon Legends: Z-A is the latest victim of a major Nintendo breach, as more than 70GB of information is reportedly shared online in huge 'Freakleak'

By Ali Jones Published

News But this could be a planned extension of the recent 'giagleak'

News
Borderlands 4 screenshot showing a psycho holding a fiery weapon
Borderlands 4's loot grind is good for your brain, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says, and that the studio would "be dead" if other competitors understood that better

By Ali Jones Published

News Randy says "most of what our prefrontal cortex is for" is picking better loot

News
2XKO trailer still of Vi fighter reveal
Even after 14 years of League of Legends, fighting game 2XKO can do little but make me think of the games I wish Riot was still making instead

By Ali Jones Published

Now Playing Now Playing | If only MOBA experience matched FGC experience

Now Playing
Critical Role
Critical Role 4 fans are celebrating an easily-missed piece of D&D expertise that helped manage the 13-player chaos of the campaign's first episode

By Ali Jones Published

News Aabria Iyengar's DM experience proved very important

News
Brennan Lee Mulligan
To celebrate Critical Role 4, Matt Mercer hid an important message to new DM Brennan Lee Mulligan inside a gifted pair of hand-forged swords

By Ali Jones Published

News "He’s just the sweetest guy of all, man. He’s the best."

News
Assassin's Creed Mirage
Assassin's Creed Mirage: Valley of Memory is a sleek DLC for die-hard fans, but it just might transform the whole game

By Ali Jones Published

Preview Preview | Inside a smaller, sleeker Assassin's Creed update

Preview
James Bond disguised as a driver in 007 First Light
James Bond game 007: First Light "would not have happened" unless it was an origin story: "We weren't interested in pushing pixels on how good we could make Pierce Brosnan look"

By Ali Jones Published

News "Everyone knows how Bond takes his drink, how he dresses, what he drives. That stuff gets shallow very quickly"

News
A screenshot from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 showing Maelle fighting an enemy.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead writer "did not play any video games" before joining the hit French JRPG, but now she's speedrunning the hits: "I have Platinumed Elden Ring, God of War, God of War Ragnarok"

By Ali Jones Published

News Making up for lost time

News
Games like Resident Evil - Alien: Isolation
Alien: Isolation writer admits its Xenomorph got too smart for the devs, which is why the horror game runs longer than most

By Ali Jones Published

News Isolation's 20-hour runtime was an accident

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News
Hades 2
I'm begging you not to sleep on the Hades 2 boon that single-handedly carried me all the way to the top of Mount Olympus

By Ali Jones Published

Opinion Hestia, my beloved

Opinion
Four characters in military gear stand next to one another with guns at the ready as they move through a maze of cargo containers and overgrown plants in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 - with the GamesRadar+ Big Preview orange frame
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's new Endgame mode "is the final proving ground" that could be so challenging you need other co-op teams to help you out

By Josh West Published

Big Preview Interview | "We wanted to break the rules of what a campaign in Call of Duty could be": Black Ops 7 is back, bombastic, and finally packs a true endgame

Big Preview
Screenshot from CloverPit, showing a first-person view of a slot machine with a shining 'Jackpot' announcement lit up.
After dodging Silksong, this Balatro-style slot machine roguelike smashed even my highest expectations by shipping 100,000 copies in a single day

By Ali Jones Published

News CloverPit is dangerously addictive

News
Minos
After Hades 2, another roguelike inspired by Greek mythology is threatening to eat up what little remains of my free time

By Ali Jones Published

News Minos casts you as the most famous son of, well, Minos

News
Battlefield 6 multiplayer screenshot
Battlefield 6 and Dragon Age owner EA goes private in $55 billion deal, smashing past its market value

By Ali Jones Published

News Several private investors have clubbed together to buy the company

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

By Ali Jones Published

News Featuring over 30 games

News
Hades 2
How to beat the Hades 2 Hecate boss fight

By Ali Jones Last updated

Guide The Witch of the Crossroads is your first major obstacle in Hades 2

Guide
Hades 2
My favorite Hades 2 upgrade turns Melinoë into a giant, and I love it all because of the tiny detail that comes with it

By Ali Jones Published

Now Playing Now Playing | Welcome, Big Melinoë

Now Playing
Megabonk
"I can't pry myself from the computer": New roguelike hailed as "a mix of Vampire Survivors and Risk of Rain 2," and I'm starting to see why it has 4,000 "Very Positive" Steam reviews after just one week

By Ali Jones Published

News Megabonk is pulling in thousands of players

News
Marvel's Wolverine
As well as Mystique and Omega Red, Marvel's Wolverine trailer revealed "hints to other characters" that fans will recognize

By Ali Jones Published

News Sabretooth when?

News
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth screenshot showing Aerith, a young woman with long fair hair and a flowing white gown, singing with her arms spread wide
Switch 2's controversial game-key cards "let us do things that maybe we wouldn't otherwise," says Final Fantasy 7 remake co-director, but "I really get where people are coming from in terms of their negativity"

By Ali Jones Published

News Naoki Hamaguchi wants fans to come to terms with the controversial game-key cards

News
Hades 2
Hades 2 review: "Impeccable combat and flawless characterization across a huge roster make for a follow-up that surpasses even its excellent roguelike predecessor"

By Ali Jones Published

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