Latest articles by Ali Jones
An Oblivion horror story scared me off The Elder Scrolls 4 for nearly 20 years, but Oblivion Remastered finally proved there's nothing to be afraid of
Opinion Gather round, as I paint you a tale of woe
Civilization 7's choice of leaders came down to "authenticity and not accuracy" - "The goal is not 'is wrong wrong?' But rather 'Does wrong feel wrong?'"
News It's a head-scratcher
Splinter Cell dev says the Chaos Theory team "couldn't have gotten more out of the hardware if we wanted to," thanks to a "paradigm shift" fueled by the original Xbox
News The OG Xbox kicked off its own mini-generation
"After being rejected by over 50 publishers," stylish indie RPG smashes its $60,000 Kickstarter in less than 24 hours in a "defiant shout" to the industry
News Crescent County has found its audience
"We had failed as designers": Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory director says developing the original stealth game was "very difficult," but that it drove Ubisoft to do "much, much better"
News "By the time we encountered the problem, we had no plan and no time to address it"
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 does have "vampire romance," but it's the weird, bitey kind of romance and it's "probably awful" to look at
News Look away, Astarion fans
Dragon Age maestro says EA always spoke about a hypothetical 'nerd cave' full of diehard RPG fans who would "always show up," so you "didn't have to try and appeal to them"
News Maybe they were right, but they shouldn't have said it
Dragon Age legend says even if he didn't leave BioWare 9 years ago, he still would have dipped over EA's live service Dragon Age push: "What a devil's contract that would have been"
News David Gaider wasn't hanging around for the Thedas battlepass
Assassin's Creed Hexe director and Far Cry 2 veteran says he "would not, and could not" work as hard as he did on Splinter Cell ever again
News Clint Hocking has a much better work-life balance now
Before The Witcher 3 smashed its "super ambitious" lifetime sales goals in just 3 months, CDPR's CEO was convinced Batman: Arkham Knight was going to "roll over us"
News CD Projekt Red demolished its sales goals
"There's nothing about JRPGs that requires them to be made in Japan," says ex Dragon Age writer, speaking nothing but facts – and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 just proves it again
News "It's not a Japanese RPG, it's a Japanese-style RPG. And so that can be made anywhere"
Baldur's Gate 3 dev says it's "too early to tell" if Larian's next RPG will be a new Divinity game
News "Many pots on the stove. We'll see where the cooking takes us"
Oblivion Remastered streamer gets every single NPC in the game high on Skooma - and it turns out Uriel Septim cannot handle his drink
News The stars were right
Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto reveals which Switch 2 game he's most excited for - and it's not Mario Kart World
News But the winner does make a lot of sense
Gearbox CEO's $80 Borderlands 4 controversy has even some of the series' biggest fans distancing themselves: "Absolute lose-lose situation for him"
News "Not fair on the devs to f*** BL4's hype like this"
Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford responds to "real fans" backlash by doubling down on the fact he doesn't set the price: "If you want the truth, here it is"
News Stop me if you've heard this one before
Riot inducts its second-ever player into League of Legends’s Hall of Fame, awarding them a custom Mercedes and possibly their own version of Faker’s controversial $400 skin
News Jian 'Uzi' Zihao is this year's Hall of Legends inductee
Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says it's "not my call" if Borderlands 4 costs $80, but "if you're a real fan," you'll find a way to buy it anyway
News Featuring a bizarre comparison to a 1991 Sega Genesis game
"Super Earth has been invaded": Helldivers 2 players failed their last Major Order, so now they have to fight to save their homeworld in the new Heart of Democracy update
News This is the one thing we didn't want to happen
The Witcher 4 lead is "pretty confident" about the series' new saga: "We know how to handle it [...] we made it popular"
News "I know that I created something big, and probably I will be remembered because of it."
From zombie tieflings to a 1-in-64 million ending, Baldur's Gate 3 sleuths are still digging deep to find the content Larian never wanted you to see
News Sure, just roll six nat 20s in a row
Star Fox dev wasn't too upset that its 'canceled' sequel was delayed by 22 years, because he didn't want the SNES game to be compared to the "obviously far superior" PlayStation
News The SNES couldn't really hold up to the OG PlayStation
Borderlands 3 player beats every last bit of the FPS at the highest difficulty, without getting downed a single time: "The most tense run I've done"
News Some people really need Borderlands 4 to drop
