Latest articles by Alex Avard
After a year of silence, Techland is ready to talk about Dying Light 2 again
Feature How Techland used the Dying Light 2 delay to scale down the complexity of the game's ambition
The Walking Dead season 10 episode 22 review: "Made Negan a character we're not just invested in, but actively rooting for"
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Kena: Bridge of Spirits developers Ember Lab on stealing the internet's heart and making the most of PS5
Feature Why PS5 game Kena: Bridge of Spirits is more than just a love letter to Pixar animation
"I try not to think of it as a successor game": Axiom Verge 2 creator Tom Happ on why his long-awaited sequel isn't really a sequel at all
Feature How Axiom Verge 2 is more than just a sequel to Tom Happ's 2015 indie hit, but a "complementary piece of the overall puzzle"
How Quantum Error is targeting PS5 to make a horror game "unlike anything else"
Feature "We have a Metal Gear style story in a Halo world with a Dead Space twist": Inside PS5 "cosmic horror" Quantum Error with Teamkill Media
How Sifu is mixing authenticity, style, and the supernatural to deliver the ultimate Kung Fu power fantasy
Feature "You will have to use every tool at your disposal": Speaking with Sloclap on all things Sifu
The Walking Dead season 10 episode 21 review: "A gentle, affecting prelude to season 10's finale"
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Taking a look behind Death's Door, the upcoming Xbox indie that has you harvesting souls as a sword-slinging crow
Feature How Death's Door builds on the foundation of Titan Souls for Acid Nerve's "dream game"
Arctic Awakening brings the narrative adventure to the frozen north for an exploration of "friendship, isolation, and mental health"
Feature How Arctic Awakening is a climate change parable and sci-fi thriller wrapped up in one episodic adventure game
From Fall Guys to Valheim, how indie games are showing the AAA market what it takes to become mega hits
Feature "It is a very humbling experience": The rise of the zeitgeist games, and how developers are dealing with it
The Walking Dead season 10 episode 20 review: "One of the most needless episodes in the show's history"
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The Walking Dead season 10 episode 19 review: "One of season 10's strongest episodes to date"
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Apex Legends is the latest victim of the Nintendo Switch's multiplayer FPS problem
Feature The Apex Legends Nintendo Switch port reveals a console that continues to struggle with one particular genre
"We might have overachieved, to be honest": The making of Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
Feature The original Naughty Dog team look back at Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy as it turns 20
One year of Warzone: How battle royale changed Call of Duty for good
Feature Lockdowns, cheaters, and the twin Diamattis: Looking back over the last 12 months of Call of Duty: Warzone
Militsioner wants to make you feel like you're "playing against a real giant policeman" in its immersive escape simulator
Feature Militsioner developer Tallboys reveals more about the making of its surrealist Russian runaway sim
From Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War to Cyberpunk 2077, how DLSS could shape the next-generation of video game graphics
Feature Why you should care about gaming's new favourite acronym
The Walking Dead season 10 episode 18 review: "Fails to land with the impact the showrunners were clearly aiming for"
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Outriders demo preview: Behind a dreary prologue lies a cathartic and crunchy co-op shooter
Feature The Outriders demo suggests an old-school shooter that takes time to reveal its full potential
"It was the exact kind of left turn I needed": How the recursive design of Maquette inspired its creator to tell a modern love story
Feature Maquette creator Hanford Lemoore on workshopping lines with Bryce Dallas Howard for this month's PS5 PS Plus freebie
Red Dead Online needs an in-game gold rush if it wants to bring new players to the frontier in 2021
Feature Red Dead Online has found a solid niche with its western role-playing, but an austere economy continues to get in the way
Away from any Horizon Forbidden West and God of War 2 updates, State of Play was a welcome retreat from the PS5 hype cycle
Feature State of Play may not have given us Horizon Forbidden West or God of War 2, but 2021 isn't all about the PS5 big hitters
