Latest articles by Ali Jones
Civilization 7 lets you "change the course of your own history" between each of its ages, before everything culminates in "sudden death"
News "When you get to the end of the modern age, you've got this truly multicultural empire that you've built"
Fallout: New Vegas' "large, interconnected story" where "any character can die" is the best comparison for Atomfall's apocalyptic RPG structure
News But Stalker, Metro, and even BioShock have also helped shape the game
For a few beautiful hours, the Borderlands movie's $90m flop wasn't the worst-reviewed film of the summer
News The Crow debuted to even worse reviews before climbing higher
Fallout veteran says he was so proud to see the TV show succeed - especially given the Borderlands movie's $90m failure
News Borderlands is "a fantastic game - but, man, that movie's being pilloried"
Halo Infinite dev shuts down complaints that players were banned for teabagging: "Yeah, that's not a thing"
News There's something else at play here
Randy Pitchford wasn't the only one teasing Borderlands 4, because another Gearbox developer basically spoiled the reveal trailer 2 years ago
News "I could teleport a moon"
Dishonored creator's Fallout: New Vegas-inspired immersive sim prefers stylized art to ultra-realism that ages fast – "Back then it was probably stunning, now you can't even look at it"
News "You look at some old Zelda, and it's still cute"
Civilization 7 director teases "sudden death" wins that will keep you in the game even if you're way behind: "The chance to get that victory is pretty much always there"
News Victory from the jaws of defeat
Dune: Awakening's survival game mechanics took inspiration from an unlikely source: EA's PS1-era Harry Potter games from 20 years ago
News Flipendo is the little-death that brings total obliteration
Borderlands 4 fans theorize the return of Handsome Jack, and that could mean a decade-old plotline is coming with him
News You might want to catch up on your Borderlands lore
BioWare says it spent 200,000 hours testing Dragon Age: The Veilguard - and that's just for the RPG's PC version
News That includes 10,000 hours dedicated to keyboard and mouse research
"I will overlook sh**ty game mechanics for hours if I'm enjoying the story": Skyrim and Fallout veteran says RPGs "live and die" on narrative
News "RPGs live and die on story"
I think Keanu Reeves is in the new Armored Core adaptation, and I can't believe no one's saying anything about it
News Wake up, we've got a mech to burn
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Collector's Edition comes with 3 days' early access and a conspiracy theory-covered globe
News A touch of class, a touch of paranoia
Everything announced at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2024
LIVE Opening Night Live 2024 has come and gone, but what a showcase it was
Black Myth: Wukong Steam player count surpasses Palworld as the action RPG surges past Counter-Strike 2 to become Steam's second-biggest game ever
News It's Steam's biggest-ever single-player launch
Skyrim veteran says he got into fights with his Bethesda colleagues over the RPG's most notoriously heavy item: "You can't just give the player everything they want"
News You can blame Jeff Gardiner next time you're over-encumbered
Hollow Knight: Silksong reclaims its Steam wishlists crown, 3 years and 6 competitors since it last held the title
News Silksong is the most-wishlisted game on Steam...again
Manor Lords publisher says game devs and big corpos don't get on because making games is "fundamentally unpredictable"
News Hooded Horse's execs think self-publishing is a pretty good idea
Baldur's Gate 3 director turned his back on RTS for RPG at the start of his career - just before the strategy game boom that brought us StarCraft, Homeworld, and Age of Empires
News Swen Vincke thought "RTS was not something people were going to be interested in"
Fallout: New Vegas helped inspire Dishonored creator's new RPG hybrid: "We like the structure, the size, the humor, the possibilities"
News "It's simply one of my favorite Fallouts"
"We're brothers": Dishonored and Prey director reflects on 20 years at Arkane as he unveils his new RPG-infused immersive sim
News Raphael Colantonio understands the importance of Arkane DNA
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom mapper discovers a weird geographical plot hole that puts Hyrule in direct opposition to Skyrim
News There's not an estuary to be found in Hyrule
