Latest articles by Ali Jones
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"
News Prepare for a hefty loot grind
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'
News But this could be a planned extension of the recent 'giagleak'
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
News Randy says "most of what our prefrontal cortex is for" is picking better loot
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
Now Playing Now Playing | If only MOBA experience matched FGC experience
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
News Aabria Iyengar's DM experience proved very important
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
News "He’s just the sweetest guy of all, man. He’s the best."
Assassin's Creed Mirage: Valley of Memory is a sleek DLC for die-hard fans, but it just might transform the whole game
Preview Preview | Inside a smaller, sleeker Assassin's Creed update
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"
News "Everyone knows how Bond takes his drink, how he dresses, what he drives. That stuff gets shallow very quickly"
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"
News Making up for lost time
Alien: Isolation writer admits its Xenomorph got too smart for the devs, which is why the horror game runs longer than most
News Isolation's 20-hour runtime was an accident
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
Opinion Hestia, my beloved
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
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
After dodging Silksong, this Balatro-style slot machine roguelike smashed even my highest expectations by shipping 100,000 copies in a single day
News CloverPit is dangerously addictive
After Hades 2, another roguelike inspired by Greek mythology is threatening to eat up what little remains of my free time
News Minos casts you as the most famous son of, well, Minos
Battlefield 6 and Dragon Age owner EA goes private in $55 billion deal, smashing past its market value
News Several private investors have clubbed together to buy the company
How to beat the Hades 2 Hecate boss fight
Guide The Witch of the Crossroads is your first major obstacle in 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
Now Playing Now Playing | Welcome, Big Melinoë
"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
News Megabonk is pulling in thousands of players
As well as Mystique and Omega Red, Marvel's Wolverine trailer revealed "hints to other characters" that fans will recognize
News Sabretooth when?
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"
News Naoki Hamaguchi wants fans to come to terms with the controversial game-key cards
Hades 2 review: "Impeccable combat and flawless characterization across a huge roster make for a follow-up that surpasses even its excellent roguelike predecessor"
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Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart writer snuck a line into the RPG's epilogue to reference her actor's real-life relationship: "That's us!"
News Maybe God's favorite princess really *is* the most interesting girl in the world
