Articles by Alex Wiltshire

What happens when online games go down for maintenance

By Alex Wiltshire

Reboot

Level up by arguing with yourself in scintillating CRPG Disco Elysium

By Alex Wiltshire

bad cop

The art of making effective game trailers

By Alex Wiltshire

coming soon

How blockbuster games are written

By Alex Wiltshire

Word play

The joy of returning to the early days of the FPS in Ion Maiden

By Alex Wiltshire

Hail to the queen

The art of flavour text

By Alex Wiltshire

magic words

Scavenger SV-4 tells amazing space horror stories

By Alex Wiltshire

Space Oddity

Into the Breach review

By Alex Wiltshire

Tiny tactics

The latency problem: why modern gaming PCs are slower than an Apple II

By Alex Wiltshire

Not enough Hz

Opus Magnum review

By Alex Wiltshire

Alchemy

Why do indie developers sign with publishers?

By Alex Wiltshire

Interview

The best incidental animations in games

By Alex Wiltshire

motion slickness

Are indie games too cheap?

By Alex Wiltshire

Indiepocalypse?

Behind the addictive psychology and seductive art of loot boxes

By Alex Wiltshire

just one more

The most ambitious Quake map ever built has just been released in 2017

By Alex Wiltshire

E1M3 forever

The future of dialogue in games

By Alex Wiltshire

Good talk

The dark art of creating gorgeous death animations

By Alex Wiltshire

good kill

How many frames per second can the human eye really see?

By Alex Wiltshire

Alert to Hertz

A brief history of artificial intelligence beating humans

By Alex Wiltshire

AI is slowly but surely getting better than us at games. And other things.