Sometimes gaming is at its best when you take the video out of video games.
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Fanny Moreaux Highlights The Best Art X Video Games Collab | Winter Spectacular 2023
A lot of video game marketing can feel quite dry and familiar, so when publishers, developers and PR go the extra mile to create something artistic and involve the community it is worth celebrating.
Fanny Moreaux showcases some of the best and most interesting video game collaborations in 2023.
Anni Valkama Examines How the Games Industry Failed Its People In 2023 | Winter Spectacular 2023
2023 was full of great games but it hardly matters how good the games were when we have failed the people making them.
Anni Valkama tries to make sense of just what happened in this historically tumultuous year for workers in the game industry.
Jess Thomas' 2023 Game Of The Year? Skyrim | Winter Spectacular 2023
It’s been a year of phenomenal, groundbreaking, genre-redefining games. So what has Jess Thomas been playing?
Skyrim… Obviously.
Jumping Onto The Rocket Ship Mid-Orbit - Owen Trett's Vampire Survivors Experience | Winter Spectacular 2023
It feels like only yesterday Vampire Survivors entered early access, such has been its meteoric rise.
poncle’s video editor, Owen Trett, joins us to explain what it’s like being on the team, why people in the video game industry have such imposter syndrome, and other garlic behaviour.
Henry Stockdale’s Five Tips For Mentoring New Writers In Journalism | Winter Spectacular 2023
Breaking into the games media is hard, and we all want to help the next generation. But giving good advice is easier said than done, so Henry Stockdale gathered up some tips for would-be mentors this Winter season.
The startmenu Winter Spectacular 2023 starts right here!
PRIDE 2021: The Definitive List of Queer Video Game Characters - 2021 Edition
We’ve crossed the i’s and dotted the t’s, tabulated the numbers and analysed the results. Now Oma Keeling is here to reveal the only 10 gay video game characters as determined by science.
Cyberpunk 2077 on Consoles is a Disaster and Sony and Microsoft Need to Take Responsibility | Winter Spectacular 2020
I doubt you’ve heard because it’s a pretty small news story but that new Cyberpunk game is kinda busted. We welcome Najib Hassan to the site to explain why this problem is just as much Sony and Microsoft’s as it is CD Projekt Red’s.
Matthew Glenn, Ollie Luddy and Will Sawyer’s Tales From the Backlog | Winter Spectacular 2020
DO YOU LIKE MEANINGLESS AWARDS?! You’re on the internet so the answer is probably yes! Ollie, Matthew and Will hand out the first annual Backlog-ies and write a bit about the games from yesteryear that resonated the most in 2020.
Jason Coles and Self Care When Covering Video Games | Winter Spectacular 2020
Jason Coles is here to sit you down and tell you to take a rest. Hey, maybe you could play some Hades!
Diego Argüello's Advice for Setting Up a Gaming Website | Winter Spectacular 2020
Diego Argüello is a busy fellow and we’d be lying if we weren’t a little surprised that the EIC of Into The Spine has time for us, so take a look at his advice for setting up a website.
Damien Mason and Becoming a Journalist (That Also Gets to Talk About Video Games) | Winter Spectacular 2020
Breaking into video game journalism is tough (trust us we know). But don’t despair! Damien Mason is here to tell you how you can write about video games without being a games journalist.
Ben Sledge and VR Fishing at the End of The World | Winter Spectacular 2020
Strap on your headset and dive into a virtual world of fishing, now that’s cyberpunk! Ben Sledge swings by to tell us about escaping reality in 2020.
Alex Orona and Super GG Radio's Betas of the Year | Winter Spectacular 2020
Alex Orona of Super GG Radio joins us to let us know what have been the best early access experiences this year and tip us off to some we may have missed.
Cole Henry and Skateboarding While the World Burns | Winter Spectacular 2020
We’ve all had a pretty shitty year and have had to find ways to cope. Cole Henry found comfort on the pavement.
Hung Hoang's Student Game Developer Anti-Guide | Winter Spectacular 2020
Hung Hoang is tired of people talking about how to become a game developer so he’s here to tell you how not to be one.
Tom Martin, Getting Involved in Uni Press and Inclusivity | Winter Spectacular 2020
College is a bit overwhelming and with a million new things flying at you, it can be hard to latch onto anything. Tom Martin is here to tell us why you should, at least try, make time to join your uni’s newspaper.
Ghost Of Tsushima's Non-Crafting System Is This Generation's Best Crafting System | Winter Spectacular 2020
To call 2020 trying is a bit of an understatement. That’s why Michael Leopold Weber took great joy in Ghost of Tsushima removing this minor annoyance.
Two Weeks With the Xbox Series S
Next-gen gaming is like boxes of chocolate. Sometimes the contents are great sometimes it pretty dubious (with a suspiciously short shelflife) and whoever makes them keeps making the packaging weirder and weirder. Anyway Alex Green has been playing the Xbox Series S.