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.
We thought about making the subhead of this review, “What is old is new again” but that could be almost any Pokémon game if we are honest.
We welcome Kyle Moffat to the site to break down what has changed and what hasn’t for BD and SP.
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.
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!
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.
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?
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
Dread: to anticipate with great apprehension or fear.
Jon Simpson spent 19 years waiting for this game. Its title is truly apt.
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…
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.
