Alyssa Mercante
Alyssa Mercante is an editor and features writer at GamesRadar based out of Brooklyn, NY. Prior to entering the industry, she got her Masters's degree inജ Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University with a dissertation focusing on contemporary indie games. She spends most of her time playing competitive shooters and in-depth RPGs and was recently on a PAX Panel about the best bars in video games. In her spare time Alyssa rescues cats, practices her Italian, and plays soccer.
Latest articles by Alyssa Mercante
Bloodhunt is adding Team Deathmatch and ditching seasonal battle passes
News Sharkmob is changing its live-service model after both player and dev fe💝e💛dback
No game does pride like Apex Legends
Features For🥂 Pride Month, we spoke to Respawn ab༺out Apex Legends and its inclusive cast of LGBTQIA+ characters
From Ghost of Tsushima to Stray, here's how devs design the most realistic in-game animals
Features From mo-cap dog suits to using office cats꧅ for inspiration, here's how devs approach realistic in-game anima⛎ls
Overwatch 2 battle pass means no more loot boxes
News We don't have many details yet, butꦇ Blizzard is promising a comprehensive Overwatch 2 battle pass breakdown
Why the Overwatch 2 free-to-play model might be a mistake
Features Overwatc🅘h 2 free-to-play is great for access but could be a nightmare for♈ hero balances and gameplay
Just because Starfield has 1000 planets doesn't mean it'll have 1000 planets worth of content
Features Bethesda wants you to feel like a small part of a much larger universe, which is where the Starfield 1000 planet b🌼oast comes in⛦to play
As Dusk Falls is an interactive drama that will hold a mirror to your soul
Features I went hands-on wit♋h At Dusk Falls and learn🐼ed a lot about myself
A Plague Tale: Requiem gameplay is gruesome and gorgeous
Preview Expect A Plagueඣ Tale: Requiem gameplay to make you feel uneasy, queasy, ไand downright scared
The Modern Warfare 2 campaign seeks to strike a balance between provocation and pleasure
Preview Chatting with Infinity Warꦺd about what to expect from the Modern Warfare 2 campaign
Modern Warfare 2 has an MGS5-style inflatable dummy
News Infinit♐y Ward is leaning into wild field ꦰupgrades and equipment with Modern Warfare 2
How Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer is being shaped by Warzone's sandboxes
Preview We spoke with the team behind Modern Warfare💦 2 multiplayer, which is bigger and wilder than ever before
Stray is catnip for cat lovers
Preview Stray, an upcomi𝓰ng indie from Anna🌞purna Interactive, is a gamified love letter to cats
PUBG is no joke, even for a seasoned battle royale player
Features PUBG: Battlegrounds may be free-to-play but it hasn't gotten any easier to pla♋y for newcomers
I want Mass Effect 5 to star Commander Shepard, but I know it's not the right move
Features My love for FemShep knꦅows no bounds, but BioWare would have to do some serious back𝓀-bends to pull off her return
Inside Halo Infinite's iconic sounds with the audio wizards at 343 Industries
Features The sounds ♒of the Halo franchise are iconic, and so are the ways 343 Industries makes them
The Halo TV series is the gold standard for video game adaptations
Features Paramount Plus' 𝓡Halo series subverts expectations in brilliant ways, making for a meaningful and unexpected video game adaptation
New Daredevil series in the works at Disney Plus
News There were rumors of a Daredevil reboo✅t swirling back in March
Live-action Barbie movie reportedly features more diverse versions of Barbie and Ken
News 🌌The other versions of the iconic characters could be played by Issa ♌Rae, Simu Liu, Ncuti Gatwa, and Hari Nef
Apex Legends Ranked changes hurt solo players the most
Features The 🐻Apex Legends Ranked changes promote teamwork and📖 survival over anything else
Activision Blizzard hopes it can solve diversity problems with math
News The studio has released a "diver♔sity space tool" that it's using to "inspire game teams" to create more diverse characters
Warzone Operation Monarch is the king of all LTMs
Features The introduction of Godzilla and Kong makes Warzone the stuff of leg๊end
Netflix's Resident Evil series is carving its own path without leaving the games behind
News "The games are our backstory," says Netflix's Resid꧅ent Evil showrunner and writer, Andrew Dabb
