Latest articles by Ali Jones
The Witcher 3's deadliest foe might just be The Bloody Baron's Gwent deck, which has spent 10 years kicking our collective butts across 458 million matches
News The Baron "sure can hustle"
Switch 2 games like Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza "could not be realized" on Switch 1, says Nintendo president to hardware doubter
News Nintendo is catching up on 8 years of processing power
Baldur's Gate 3 Lae'zel actor had a little chair in the booth because she was still recording 2 days before giving birth: "My waters broke after the session"
News "I'm gonna be here right up until the due date"
My new favorite detail in GTA 6 trailer 2 is best-in-class cloth animation that rivals an acclaimed scene from The Last of Us 2
News Rockstar's got me all heated up over realistic creasing
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 could "top 8-10 million" sales, says Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead as he shouts out his fellow RPG's "incredible achievement"
News Prepare for "a conservative 6" million sales, Sandfall
PUBG creator's nails-hard survival game flips genre staples on their heads: "Have you tried chopping down a tree?"
News Hunger and thirst meters are also less deadly than you might expect
Switch 2 price could still rise, as Nintendo president says the company is racing to beat new tariffs
News Nintendo "will consider" price adjustments
Hideo Kojima prefers casting actors he vibes with irl, and that's not going to change for his upcoming horror or spy games
News OD and Physint are still on Kojima's mind
Death Stranding 2 devs worried it was "getting a little Metal Gear-ish," but Hideo Kojima himself says you don't have to be sneaky: "I don't even use stealth myself"
News Kojima Productions is simply aiming for "more enjoyable combat"
Borderlands 4's lead writer is desperately trying to keep a lid on the toilet humor: "the rejected names for this system would make a dockworker blush"
News And he won't even tell us what they were
Elden Ring DLC and Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero made up for Bandai Namco's disastrous 2024, spiking profits nearly 1000%
News But a terrible MMO disaster helped too
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's performance woes didn't hold back its sales, as Gen 9 overtakes Sword and Shield to become the series' all-time runner-ups
News But Red and Blue still reign supreme
The League of Legends MMO gets its yearly mention, as Riot's co-founder offers another tiny hint as to its continued existence
News I'll take any old scrap at this point
Dragon Age veteran says his team was "jerked around" because EA didn't care about big RPGs like Mass Effect: Andromeda, just Anthem
News And look how that turned out...
Hades 2 devs are getting "closer to the finish line" as the roguelike sequel celebrates its first early access anniversary
News Is Supergiant nearly there?
This Sonic Frontiers-style free-running simulator is already my favorite roguelike of 2025, but it was almost a very different game: "We were like, 'maybe we'll make it into a battle royale'"
Interview | Catching up with the team behind Steam's breakout hit Haste
The 25 best Steam games for 2025
Best List Here are the very best Steam games to play in 2025, whether you love RPGs like Baldur's Gate 3, extraction shooters, or puzzle games.
Mario Kart World might be the Switch 2's big launch game, but The Duskbloods is Nintendo's real system-seller
Opinion Opinion | A FromSoft exclusive is a huge coup
Nintendo's ditching OLED support for Switch 2 screens in favor of a return to LCD, and I'm not sure I'm 100% convinced by its explanation
News Switch 2 OLED when?
Nintendo won't compare the Switch 2's battery life to the OG Switch, but admits it's got a way bigger battery to make up for its beefier CPU
News But it's almost impossible to compare the two consoles like-for-like
FromSoftware is in its multiplayer arc: After Elden Ring Nightreign, The Duskbloods brings 8-player PvPvE chaos to Nintendo Switch 2
Miyazaki's live-service push is here
Nintendo wants the Switch 2 to "stand the test of time," which is something that the original Switch hasn't really managed
News Looking at you, Scarlet and Violet
Nintendo nearly called the Switch 2 the "Super Nintendo Switch" as a throwback to the NES, but "it didn't feel right"
Nintendo "really struggled to find" the right name
