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?
Amy Eastland's Time In Game Journalism Has Been a Whirlwind | Winter Spectacular 2021
It is really wild to consider that some of us have started whole new careers and chapters in our lives during this pandemic. Honestly, that has only made learning a lot of the lessons everyone has to figure out much harder. Amy Eastland shares with us her whirlwind games journo career.
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!
Arcane Is The Perfect Show For Jamie Nicholas And Other People That Don't Play League | Winter Spectacular 2021
League of Legends is known for having a… passionate fanbase. This makes it intimidating for newcomers to learn the gameplay basics, not to mind the lore. That is why Jamie A. Nicholas thinks Arcane is such a brilliant adaptation of gaming juggernaut.
Elizabeth Henges Is Moving On and Moving Fast | Winter Spectacular 2021
There is a term in speedrunning for when a game is being played at a marathon event and it has gone way over the estimated time and has to be cut short. It’s called “a mercy kill”.
Elizabeth Henges reflects on when it’s time to call a reset on a run or maybe a dream job.
Review | Echo Generation - Don't Call it a Callback | Winter Spectacular 2021
Echo Generation harkens back to charming turn-based RPGs of yore while also looking to recently released retro-indies. Does this modern-old-school style work? Ruddy Celestial investigates
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!
Matthew Glenn is Reckoning With His Backlog Outliving Him | Winter Spectacular 2021
There is something genuinely demoralising about games getting longer and longer as you get older and older.
We welcome Mathew Glenn back to the site to reflect on video games, backlogs and mortality.
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.
James Law's Writing Career Was Finally Taking Off. Then He Burnt Out | Winter Spectacular 2021
Welcome to Paradise City, where there are always more guides to write, podcasts to host, news to report, games to play, work to do, side projects to comp—.
James Law returns from that city with a cautionary tale.
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…
Update Patch | November 2021
We could write a spiffy strapline, but honestly, November was a pretty grim month for the video game industry. Alex Green is here to make sure you are up to date on everything that happened.
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!