Latest articles by Ali Jones
Baldur's Gate 3's speedrunning war reignites as former record holder returns to set the RPG's new Any% world record - and announces she's coming for her other titles too
News "Rumors of my death were greatly exaggerated"
Just 69 players earned Concord's Platinum before the doomed shooter could be taken offline, according to a leading tracking site
News Nice.
New Valve shooter Deadlock is still in invite-only alpha, but it's already got "very blatant" cheaters
News Look away, Team Fortress 2 fans
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom almost had a different name, but Nintendo was worried it was a massive spoiler
News Unfortunately, Nintendo was also running out of time to change it
GTA 6 music deal blasted as "utterly unacceptable" by musician who says his band was offered just $7,500 each by Rockstar, despite GTA 5's $8.5 billion revenue
News Don't count on hearing this band around Vice City
World of Warcraft veteran says MMO power leveling is a "mistake": "Getting to level cap should be an accomplishment, not a blip"
News Project Ghost "won't forsake" endgame at the expense of power leveling
Director of critically panned game adaptions clowns on Borderlands movie's $90m flop, only to cancel his next game adaption after crowdfunding just $850
News Sorry, Uwe Boll's Postal sequel isn't happening
Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 7 is out now on PC, with truly colossal 18,000-word patch notes introducing full mod support, new evil endings, and even harder Honour Mode fights
News Crossplay and photo mode will follow, but this feels like Baldur's Gate 3's final chapter
Helldivers 2 devs outline the first patch of their 60-day action plan, committing to sweeping armor overhauls and major nerfs to both Bugs and Bots
News Arrowhead hears players "loud and clear"
The Minecraft movie is drawing the most dangerous comparison imaginable, as viewers invoke the Borderlands movie and its $90 million box office failure
News It's not a comparison I'd be thrilled by if I was Jack Black
The Golden Joystick Awards return on November 21 with overhauled rules for indie games
News 22 Awards will be handed out
After Redfall and Suicide Squad, Concord's failure must be the nail in the coffin for the industry's failed live-service gold rush
Opinion Too many games are living short, embarrassing lives
Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom prepares us for the world after Tears of the Kingdom, but lets its hero down in the process
Preview After a decades-long wait, Zelda herself deserves better
No Man's Sky Aquarius is the fishing update that Hello Games is "finally" adding after 8 years - and it was inspired by a single piece of fan art
News That must be some really good fan art
Red Dead Redemption 2 actor say's he'd "absolutely" play Arthur Morgan in a TV adaptation, but that probably won't happen because Hollywood doesn't understand mocap
News "One of the reasons is because of the misconception that it's voice acting"
One of the OG Grand Theft Auto devs has a new game coming, and it's basically the exact opposite of GTA's violent open-world
News Plentiful is a "relaxing" god game all about helping nature thrive
"This is definitely my biggest life achievement": Idle Stardew Valley-like Rusty's Retirement hits top 50 highest-rated Steam games among the 11,000+ released this year
News That's 11,219 and counting
Palworld dev hopes to "help more indie devs" after the survival game's runaway success: "We were in the same position only a year ago until Palworld changed our lives"
News Palworld is one of the lucky ones
As the Borderlands movie slides into oblivion and Risk of Rain 2's new DLC burns, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford compares himself to The Beatles, who he says only "had a 25% hit rate"
News "I'm sure every song they recorded was done with love and commitment to the art"
Star Wars Outlaws stormtroopers don't have seatbelts, and that means players are already turning their speeders into death traps
News Yet another Empire Heath & Safety oversight
After 27 long years, Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions finally acknowledges that Quidditch is a dumb sport - by hard-nerfing the Golden Snitch
News Suck on this, Viktor Krum
Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity: Original Sin 2 were priced "below their value" because Larian devs "had faith" they could recover the cost
News "I care about people's cost of living and had faith in our recoup"
Legendary designer behind F-Zero and Star Fox nearly worked at Konami, but his mom told him to take the job at Nintendo
News Takaya Imamura eventually spent more than 30 years with the company
