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

Mewgenics
"What else are we going to do, another f***ing platformer?": Mewgenics took 15 years to dominate Steam, but its secret sauce was cooked up in just 2 weeks

By Ali Jones Published

Interview Interview | Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel's roguelike hit was a long time coming

Interview
Mewgenics
"Only the nerdiest of the nerds" would play roguelikes before Spelunky and The Binding of Isaac, says Mewgenics dev

By Ali Jones Published

News "It was so cool that you could have an endlessly replayable game like that"

News
John Wick stares into the camera while wearing a suit
Everything announced at the PS5 State of Play February 2026

By Josh West Last updated

Recap PlayStation State of Play summary with the latest news, reveals, and gameplay trailers from the PS5 showcase

Recap
Screenshot from an Exodus trailer, showing a white man reach out to a glowy alien object in a dark room.
Ex-Mass Effect devs know "there's a hunger" for big RPGs, so there's an "unbelievable amount of pressure" on Exodus

By Kaan Serin Published

News "We just have a very high bar we have to deliver on"

News
Exodus
Mass Effect veterans don't want side quests to feel "tacked on" to their new sci-fi RPG Exodus

By Kaan Serin Published

News Exodus devs want players to feel compelled by side quests regardless of the reward

News
Edmund McMillen
"We could have just made The Binding of Isaac 2," say Mewgenics creators, and "gotten 20 million wishlists"

By Dustin Bailey Published

News Mewgenics seemed "like a monumental task, but why shouldn't we be able to do it?"

News
Mewgenics
Mewgenics review: "The Binding of Isaac collides with Into the Breach in a smart strategy roguelike"

By Ali Jones Published

Review

Review
Cairn
Cairn review: "This climber has a grip on me – even when it loses its footing with awkward systems"

By Ali Jones Published

Review

Review
Exodus
More than Mass Effect's spiritual successor, Exodus wants to pull decades of player choice into a single story

By Ali Jones Published

Exclusive Big in 2026 | RPG royalty are preparing a new type of sci-fi epic

Exclusive
Team Fortress 2 soldier holding two grenades
25 Best free PC games to play in 2026

By Ali Jones Last updated

Best list From 2XKO to Fortnite, the best free PC games of 2026 offer huge experiences in exchange for absolutely nothing

Best list
FGS Spring Showcase
The Future Games Show is returning in 2026 with 6 new shows

By Ali Jones Published

News Starting March 12

News
Julian, a light blue horse with a unicorn-like horn, in Animal Crossing: New Horizon poses in front of the mayor's office, with the GamesRadar+ On The Radar frame
The best Animal Crossing: New Horizons villagers have been our faves since day one

By Oscar Taylor-Kent Published

Best List Best List | Putting our paws together to celebrate our Animal Crossing faves

Best List
PUBG Blindspot BI26
PUBG's first spin-off is a top-down shooter shaped by Valorant, Counter-Strike, and a hardcore military MMO

By Ali Jones Published

Exclusive Big in 2026 | This chicken dinner looks a little different...

Exclusive
Peak screenshot of pink and orange characters on a massive tree
Peak's lead wants to keep its game "jam-like spirit" for future updates

By Scott McCrae Published

News "We just wanted to get it out there" 

News
Bloodborne screenshot of The Hunter player-character with their back to us, wielding a bladed in their right hand and an a ranged weapon in their left
Bloodborne "is a special game for me" says Hidetaka Miyazaki: It's "the strongest reflection of my type of flavoring"

By Ali Jones Published

News "I've imparted a lot of my own ideas into this game"

News
Hollow Knight: Silksong
"Silksong charged $5 more, 9 years later, and people lost their minds": Indie dev says pricing is actually really easy

By Ali Jones Published

News Price "is just a single number you can change in 30 seconds"

News
The Elder Scrolls Online
The D&D campaign that helped shape Skyrim has been unearthed, as The Elder Scrolls legend's lost RPG notes are archived

By Ali Jones Published

News Julian LeFay's original notes were discovered after his death

News
Divinity
Larian's Divinity AMA Live Coverage - All the news as it happens

By Ali Jones Last updated

Live The Baldur's Gate 3 devs have plenty to reveal about their follow-up

Live
Divinity
Baldur's Gate 3 director u-turns on the use of AI art in Divinity, will no longer use tech for concept art development

By Ali Jones Published

News It's a major change of tune

News
Fallout 3
Fallout creators wanted to buy the IP, but Bethesda sniped them with a $6 million bid: "They would have laughed"

By Ali Jones Published

News "We never even got a chance to make an offer"

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News
Elden Ring
Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin's vision for Elden Ring changed so much that Miyazaki thinks he'd be surprised

By Ali Jones Published

News Elden Ring remains "in a league of its own"

News
A screenshot from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 showing Maelle fighting an enemy.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 dev blames Final Fantasy 10 for letting you nuke its final boss

By Ali Jones Published

News "We think it's OK – more or less what we wanted"

27 Comments
News
Fallout 3 screenshot of someone in power armor standing in front of a rundown version of the Washington Monument
Fallout 3's VATS system almost didn't make it into the RPG, and Bethesda worried no one would even want to use it

By Ali Jones Published

News "We only just got that working by the time it shipped"

News
Batman stands on a rooftop in front of the moon in Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight
Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight star is "petrified" to join the list of names to play the caped crusader

By Scott McCrae Published

News "First of all, in voice, Kevin Conroy is the go-to, the greatest of all time. So, it's very scary."

News
Elden Ring Nightreign
Elden Ring Nightreign was a bold yet flawed Soulslike experiment, but I think it could shape the industry's future

By Ali Jones Published

Year in Review Year in Review 2025 | Nightreign is paving the way for more like it in the years to come

Year in Review
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