We love a good ole GOTY list, don’t we folks?!
Join Natalie Raine as she highlights her highlights of the year.
All in GOTY
Santi Leguiza 2021 Was A Year of Endings and Beginnings | Winter Spectacular 2021
2021 being both the longest and shortest year of many of our lives has had us thinking a lot about endings and beginnings. No more so than for Santi Leguiza, who joins us again to discuss his Games of The Year for 2021 and how they revolve around bringing things to a close and starting anew.
Josh Broadwell Wants You To Celebrate Your Wins, Especially When You Don't Feel Like It | Winter Spectacular 2021
It is one thing to win with humility. It is a totally different thing to win and then put your fingers in your ears and shout “AH IT WAS NOTHING, ANYONE ELSE COULD HAVE DONE BETTER!”
Josh Broadwell slowly starting to accept that he might be pretty damn good at what he does.
The First Annual startmenu Awards | Winter Spectacular 2021
This article is just like 2021 itself; it will make you laugh and make you cry, it is way to long and will be gone in a flash, it was a lot of hard work and we’re not sure it was worth it, but we got through it all together!
Welcome to The First Annual startmenu Awards!
The Games Industry Has a Cynicism Problem… And So Does Ollie Luddy | Winter Spectacular 2021
It is very easy to be jaded in the games industry. In fact, you are probably right to be cynical most of the time.
However, Ollie Luddy has realised it is time both they and everyone else should give wide-eyed naivety a second chance.
Alexandra Day's Games Of The Year 2021 | Winter Spectacular 2021
It has been a great year for video games, especially indie games. However, it has been easy to miss some of the best experiences of the year when the world is still kinda on fire.
That is why we welcome Dreamfeel’s Alexandra Day to the site to highlight some gems you might have missed.
The Best Games I Played In 2021 By Tiffany Treadmore & Dov Grey | Winter Spectacular 2021
We asked our favourite Nintendo Leaker to send us their Top Ten Games of 2021.
Tiffany Treadmore and Dov Grey sent us a document titled “Get Back Inside!” and, yeah, that about sums this year up, doesn’t it?
Review | Epic Chef - Get It While It's Hot! | Winter Spectacular 2021
What is more adventurous than trying a type of food you have never had before?
A grand adventure, you say?
Well, Marie Pritchard is here to tell us about today’s specials and a game that serves up both!
Alex Green Looks Back at Xbox's Eventful Year | Winter Spectacular 2021
When you have been in the games industry for 20 years now 12 months might not seem like a big deal. But Xbox’s 2021 felt like a bit of a landmark.
Alex Green breaks down Microsoft’s 20th year selling attitudinal big black boxes.
Alex Orona and Super GG Radio’s Best Betas and Demos of 2021 | Winter Spectacular 2021
Spiders with laser swords? Fashion law enforcement? Mounds of flesh and garbage? 2022 seem like it will be an interesting time to play games.
Alex Orona is back with his and Super GG Radio’s best betas and demos from the last year.
Oisín Kuhnke's Games of The Year (Kinda) | Winter Spectacular 2021
What is a release date if not a miserable pile of numbers?
We welcome Oisín Kuhnke back to the site to award their games of the year. Were they released this year? WHO CARES!
Metroid Dread: The Game Jon Simpson Waited 19 Years For | Winter Spectacular 2021
Dread: to anticipate with great apprehension or fear.
Jon Simpson spent 19 years waiting for this game. Its title is truly apt.
Michael Leopold Weber's Top 5 Tips For Reaching Out To Game Devs | Winter Spectacular 2021
Gamers are not social animals. Which makes all the talking to other people for work when you are a games journalist feel like nails on a chalkboard. Michael Leopold Weber has returned to startmenu to give some advice for how to, you know, ummmm, talk to people…
Dave McAdam Says Carry On My Wayward Guardians | Winter Spectacular 2021
What could sum up the holiday season better than someone making a bunch of dad-rock jokes when they are meant to be having a serious conversation? Anyway, on a totally separate note Dave McAdam is here to tell you why you shouldn’t hold out for a hero. Instead, don’t worry, be happy.
Henry Stockdale’s Four Tips for Jumping Into Full-Time Freelance Journalism | Winter Spectacular 2021
It tough old gig, and even though he’s only been at it for a year and a bit Henry Stockdale already has plenty of things he wishes someone had told him before he made the jump to freelancing full-time.
Objection! Ruth Cassidy Asks What Even Is a GOTY, Anyway? | Winter Spectacular 2021
Rules are made to be broken and a Game of The Year can be whatever you damn want it to be. At least according to Ruth Cassidy… and we tend to agree!
2021 Has Taken Marie Pritchard Out of Her Gaming Comfort-zone | Winter Spectacular 2021
Video games are a comfort for many of us, but there comes a time when you need to step outside of the reassuring safe zone and try something different. Marie Pritchard pushed her gaming tastes this year and has discovered many a fine virtual cuisine!
Games Sam Harrison Wishes He Played in 2021 | Winter Spectacular 2021
Time makes fools of us all and video game backlogs make fools of time. We welcome Sam Harrison to the site to let us know all the best games of the year… that he didn’t play.
KillJoy's Vtubing Rollercoaster | Winter Spectacular 2021
2021 felt more like an arduous trek than anything else in many ways. KillJoy certainly had his fair share of challenges but he sure has ended up in a pretty damn cool place if we say so ourselves.
What Khee Hoon Chan Learned From Six Exhausting Years of Freelancing | Winter Spectacular 2021
You can do a lot in six years, you can also learn a lot of lessons, Khee Hoon Chan certainly has, and they want to share some of those lessons with you.