Latest articles by Ali Jones
Veteran Sonic producer says Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds team completely removed items from the game if they were too "stressful" or let players "win all the time"
Maybe Nintendo could learn a lesson or two
The Witcher 4 dev says "it's very clear" that Ciri is the right choice of protagonist, but that players shouldn't "make opinions" until the game is out
News "This is how it's gonna be, and you will see in the game how it will play out"
Borderlands 4 isn't a "cynical" sequel that's only being made "to meet the market," but because Gearbox wants to improve movement like it improved Borderlands 3's gunplay
News "We want to make it feel like we're breaking fresh ground again"
"Our fans would kill us": Dying Light: The Beast director outlines Techland's "areas of perfection" that "we cannot mess up to any extent"
News Dying Light devs know what to focus on
Hideo Kojima's cult vampire RPG Boktai only exists because Konami made a UV teddy bear that completely flopped
News Konami's loss was vampire hunters' gain
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is getting Minecraft characters and Hatsune Miku to make sure people are "not just playing it when it comes out, having fun, and that being it"
News "We need to support [it] and make sure people are having fun and getting a fresh experience for as long as possible"
Even Death Stranding 2's Solid Snake doppelganger thought he was playing a Metal Gear Solid character, but Hideo Kojima had to tell him "you're not Snake"
News "You just have a bandana on your head"
The Witcher 4 devs are preparing for "a generational shift" after The Witcher 3, and they're studying the RPG's biggest city to help
News "We're not stepping into this blindly"
A late contender for my favorite roguelike of Steam Next Fest combines Vampire Survivors with an arcade classic, and it's sticking around for a few more days
News Ball x Pit is a real buzzer-beater
This Steam Next Fest demo is exactly like Escape from Tarkov, except you're a duck and it only gets weirder from there
News Escape from Duckov is a gritty, dog-eat-dog world - except you're an adorable duck
The Shovel Knight devs' Steam Next Fest gem is such a perfect homage to Zelda: Link's Awakening that I wish I was playing on an actual Game Boy
News Mina the Hollower is a classic in the making
The Stellar Blade PC release finally convinced me to try it out, but after its Steam Next Fest demo I'm going straight back to Elden Ring Nightreign
News Sorry Eve, I belong to the Condemned
This Balatro-style roguelike is Localthunk's nightmare, because it swaps Poker for a literal slot machine to really simulate that gambling feel and its Steam Next Fest demo is dangerously addictive
News CloverPit isn't worried about its ESRB rating
The chaos of Hotline Miami meets the intricate planning of Payday in this hostage-saving Steam Next Fest demo that's absolutely riffing on Die Hard
News Phantom Squad is an accident waiting to happen
I've sacrificed millions of imps in my new favorite roguelike city-builder, but it's still not enough
Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | 9 Kings is a roguelike with royally intricate city-building
This super-hard survival game is the most unforgiving Steam Next Fest demo I've played so far, and I completely failed to get revenge for the last time it kicked my ass
News Prologue: Go Wayback is not messing around
Moonlighter 2 is one of the biggest roguelikes at Steam Next fest, but I might prefer its shop management sim gameplay to be an arcane adventurer
News This might actually be 3 games in 1
My favorite Steam Next Fest city-builder so far is a chill sequel to Plague Inc, but I still ended up feeding dogs to my citizens
News After Inc. proves the post-apocalypse is never a walk in the park
As Stellar Blade PC gets booted off the Steam Next Fest charts, a sci-fi FPS that's everything I actually wanted from Starfield is rising up to take its place
News Shift Up's loss is Jump Ship's gain
I carved through my first dangerously addictive Steam Next Fest demo with the power of 'shotgun magic' in this mystical twist on Hotline Miami
News Mage Tower Massacre has some surprisingly shooty spells at its fingertips
I broke this roguelike FPS Steam Next Fest demo wide open once I combined its gritty freerunning with a gun that spams pandas
News I can only apologize to the developers of High Fructose
The biggest strategy game in Steam Next Fest is a medieval siege MMO from cult devs - but it's impossible to play it most the time and I have to wait 5 hours to get in
News Please, Anvil Empires, just let me play
The Stellar Blade PC release was briefly the biggest demo at Steam Next Fest, but it's been overtaken by a controversial soulslike MMORPG revival that shares at least one thing with Stellar Blade itself
News Vindictus: Defying Fate is garnering a lot of attention
