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 in 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 It🅰alian, and plays soccer.
Latest articles by Alyssa Mercante
These are the best Prime Day deals for Apex Legends players
Deals Ch🌼eck out these Prime Day Apex Legends deals to upgrade your har♈dware or get your hands on some new collectables.
Our fave Razer gaming headset is at its lowest price ever thanks to this Prime Day deal
Deals The Razer BlackShark V2 gamꦓing headset is 35% off thanks to this gr𒉰eat Prime Day deal
Warzone Fortune's Keep has dethroned Rebirth Island as the battle royale's best map
Feature Warzone Fortune's Keep has lured me🦂 back to the battle royale with its beautiful visuals and pitch-perfect map layout
How Bloodhunt is evolving to avoid the battle royale graveyard
Feature Bloodhunt devs on staying fresh in the battle roy🌌ale genre, player feedback, and the Swedish art of jävlar anamma
Bloodhunt is adding Team Deathmatch and ditching seasonal battle passes
News Sharkmob is changing its live-service model af♈ter both player and dev feedback
No game does pride like Apex Legends
Feature For Pride Month, we spoke to Respawn about 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
Feature From mo-cap dog suits to using office cats✃ for inspiration, here's how devs approach rea🐎listic in-game animals
Overwatch 2 battle pass means no more loot boxes
News We don't have many details yetཧ, but Blizzard is p𝓡romising a comprehensive Overwatch 2 battle pass breakdown
Why the Overwatch 2 free-to-play model might be a mistake
Feature Overwatch 2 free-to-play is great for ac♒cess 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
Feature Bethesd𝕴a wants you to feel like a small part of a much larger universe, which is where the Starfield 1000 plane🅰t boast comes into play
As Dusk Falls is an interactive drama that will hold a mirror to your soul
Feature I went hands-on with At Dusk Fal𒁃ls and le⛎arned a lot about myself
A Plague Tale: Requiem gameplay is gruesome and gorgeous
Preview Expect A Plague Tale: Requi🦄em gameplay to make you feel uneasy, q🀅ueasy, and downright scared
The Modern Warfare 2 campaign seeks to strike a balance between provocation and pleasure
Preview Chatting with Infinity Ward about what to expe💙♑ct from the Modern Warfare 2 campaign
Modern Warfare 2 has an MGS5-style inflatable dummy
News Infinity Ward is leaning into wild field upgrades and equipment with Modern Warfare♉ 2
How Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer is being shaped by Warzone's sandboxes
Preview We spoke with the team be🥀hind Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer, which is bigger💜 and wilder than ever before
Stray is catnip for cat lovers
Preview 𓄧Stray, an upcoming indie from Annapurna Interactive, is a gamified love letter to cats
PUBG is no joke, even for a seasoned battle royale player
Feature PUBG: Battlegrounds may be free-to-play but it hasn't gotten ꧋any easier to play 🐈for newcomers
I want Mass Effect 5 to star Commander Shepard, but I know it's not the right move
Feature My loꦉve for FemShep knows no bounds, but BioWare would have to do some serious back-bends to pull off her return
Inside Halo Infinite's iconic sounds with the audio wizards at 343 Industries
Feature 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
Feature Paramount Plus' Halo series subverts e♛xpectations in brilliant ways, making for a meaningful and unexpec👍ted video game adaptation
New Daredevil series in the works at Disney Plus
News There were rumors of a Daredevi🍸l reboot swirlinဣg 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
