Alex Wiltshire

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Alex Wiltshire writes about videogames and design, is a former editor of Edge, is author of Minecraft Blockopedia and Mobestiary, and edited Britsoft: An Oral History.

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How Hades plays with Greek myths

Hell to pay

Aug. 17, 2021 Alex Wiltshire

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A character in survival game Valheim sitting by a campfire at night

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Why Valheim wants to stop you using portals

Portals are historically inaccurate anyway

March 25, 2021 Alex Wiltshire

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How The Impossible Bottle makes text adventuring accessible

Examine article

Feb. 10, 2021 Alex Wiltshire

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How Teardown made a great game from destruction

If you unbuild it, they will come

Jan. 6, 2021 Alex Wiltshire

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How Hardspace: Shipbreaker's devs made spaceships you can cut anywhere

And why they changed their minds

July 29, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

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How Satisfactory’s developers lied to their players, and why the players loved it

Pipemania

July 1, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

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How upgrading cards fuels Monster Train's wild ride

Train in vain

June 18, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

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Magic: The Gathering Jumpstart packs revealed: Minions and Rainbow

Exclusive info

June 17, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

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You might finally have time for Magic: The Gathering thanks to Jumpstart

Goodbye to deck-building

June 16, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

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The difficulty with Pathologic 2's difficulty

A game about struggle

June 3, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

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How I Wanna Run The Marathon riffed on Mario to draw a crowd

Some games are made to be watched

May 20, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

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How Raft’s shark feeds its survival game

Sometimes that shark looks right at ya

May 6, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

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How Untitled Goose Game made a game out of everyday items

From tulips to teapots

April 22, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

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Developers of your favourite games share what they're most proud of making

Raindrops on kittens and whiskers on roses

April 13, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

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How animation powers Ori And The Will Of The Wisps

See through the dimensions

April 10, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

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How American Truck Simulator recreates the grand American west

Keep on truckin'

March 25, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

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How Hunt: Showdown creates hot, dripping tension

Wascally wabbit

March 11, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

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How Generation Zero was fixed

334 hours played, do not recommend

Feb. 26, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

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How Shovel Knight's last boss was designed four times

Dig up, stupid

Jan. 29, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

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The unknowable chaos of physics in Totally Accurate Battle Simulator

Turns out that standing still is pretty hard

Jan. 15, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

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Exclusive: two new Magic: The Gathering cards revealed - including punchy goats

Punchy goats and magic soldiers

Jan. 8, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

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How Unity Of Command 2 balances game design with military history

Where abstraction meets accuracy

Jan. 1, 2020 Alex Wiltshire

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Portraits of Roblox: The view from the platform

Lonely at the block

Dec. 19, 2019 Alex Wiltshire

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How A Plague Tale: Innocence's rat hordes were made

I'll have you know they make very good pets

Dec. 18, 2019 Alex Wiltshire

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Portraits of Roblox's leading makers: the roleplayers

The building blox of life

Dec. 12, 2019 Alex Wiltshire

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