Ali Jones
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 L🐼eague of Legends or Steam's latest indie hit.
Latest articles by Ali Jones
Elden Ring Nightreign Metacritic score sets it as the lowest-scored FromSoftware game in 7 years and ties a 25-year-old PS2 platformer nobody remembers, but that's before the multiplayer buff sets in
News 'The lowest-scored FromSoftware gꦏame' is still better than mo༺st other games
Oblivion Remastered player picks wrong quest at wrong time, spends 100 hours and counting running around Cyrodiil afflicted with The Elder Scrolls 4's most irritating curse
News And no, I don't mean the Adoring Fan
Borderlands 2 voice actor says watching the Borderlands movie was like a "weird fever dream": "It took me a solid 20 to 30 minutes to settle into the fact that it was a movie"
News Sounds like its best review so far, to me
Fallout's creator went so scorched earth when he was ordered to delete the RPG's source code that he even broke his "personal toy projects" forever because he deleted the Fallout libraries they referenced
News "I went so far to destroy it t𝐆hat I destroyed early prototypes 💛and libraries"
Borderlands 4 might not feature fan-favorite Tiny Tina, as her voice actor says they "haven't heard anything" about returning to the series
News Tiny Ti-no
With just days to go, Elden Ring Nightreign director says it's "equal parts nerves and excitement" as FromSoftware polishes game balance "until the last minute"
News Nig🎐htreign's first-time director is feeling good about the Soulslike spinoff
"Even people in the studio had problems" with Cyberpunk 2077's most uncomfortable quest, but CDPR stood by it because "we don't do heavy things for the sake of edginess"
News "We do heavy things if we have something meaningfulไ to say"
Hideo Kojima admits Death Stranding is "weird," which feels like it might be a pretty substantial understatement for his entire body of work
News This is a game that lets you give thꦿe𒊎 president's corpse a piggyback
With the caveat he got "really, really, really lucky," Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director shares classic advice: "You have to make a game that you will like"
News "I think it will always resonate if there's aꦜ sense of honesty and truth and joy in the🐼 game"
28 years later, Fallout creator wonders if all the effort he put in to scrubbing a minor graphics issue was actually worth it, especially because Diablo "had it in droves and no-one cared"
News "I wonder what was lost in Fallout"
Oblivion Remastered player spends 55,000 years in jail after a 2-billion bounty crime spree, breaking the in-game calendar in the process
News I'm not ⛎sure Tamriel would evenಞ exist by that point
Kratos actor Christopher Judge says working on God of War "changed my whole perspective on the world" and "what it really means to be a man"
News "Everyone treated each other with respect"
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, ඣwe 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 werꦜe right, but they shouldn'𝓀t 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 Cl🐬int 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 aꦯnywhere"
