Strategy RPGs are having a bit of resurgence but the genre has changed so much over recent years. Symphony of War is a throwback to classic SRGPs like Orge War but with plenty of its own new ideas. Alex Branagan lets us know if it can scratch their very particular itch when it comes to these games.
Sometimes you need to turn off the console, play some analogue games and go on super gay adventures with your friend. Jamie Nicholas explored the queerer side of the UK Games Expo and wants to tell us all about it.
The startmenu Podcast returns... AGAIN!
In our first episode back the gang discusses if we still even need an E3, our favourite E3 moments (good and bad) and what exactly all those E's stand for?
Grab your lab coat because this is a very serious investigation into the scientifically proven gayest things to do in video games this Pride.
Junior scientist Lexi Luddy and Dr. James Troughton* investigate.
*Honourary PhD sneaking gay photoshops into articles at TheGamer.
There is no shortage of Metroidvanias these days and there is no shortage of retro platformers either. So can Souldiers survive in this crowded battle? Jason Coles lets us know.
Character creators are becoming a theme of this year’s Proud Pixels event. But this time we are creating a true version of ourselves in space!
We welcome back Alexandra Day of Dreamfeel to discuss their trans identity and Jedi Academy.
How do you adapt a run and gun shooter into VR without causing players to paint their walls with the inside of their guts?
Get locked in a small room, with some big guns and allow Jason Coles to tell you.
Even as (not) E3 was fast approaching last month, that didn’t stop the video game news from happening and millions of dollars being thrown around.
Alex Green is back to fill us in and let us know who is still playing Babylon’s Fall.
Borderlands has always been loud and proud, but Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands is something much more - it is authentically queer.
We are delighted to welcome Jordan Black to the site to share their experience.
We’ve heard Final Fantasy XIV has everything you would want in an MMO: transmog, non-gendered jobs and classes, catgirls, bunny people and deep personal revelations about your gender… Oh, and controller support!
Sometimes we discover things about ourselves in the most unsuspecting of places. Sometimes that is out in the Mojave Wasteland or, as it was for Jamie Nicholas, during a Minecraft Let’s Play.
It has been 16 years since the last Kao The Kangaroo game. Can this marsupial go another round a decade and a half later? Or is it time to hang up the gloves? Marie Pritchard investigates in our review.
Ten years on and Corvo’s quest for revenge is still one of the greatest stealth games of all time. Matthew Lanceley guides us through the dying streets of Dunwall to explore why Dishonored still holds up.
Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
Don’t touch that cactus.
Seriously it will kill you.
We welcome Eloise Evans back as they turn their green finger to video games and review Strange Horticulture.
After a month off Update Patch, Alex Green returns to the site with a bumper round-up of all of April’s major video game news.
Season One of Telltale’s The Walking Dead recently turned 10 years old, making us all feel like decrypted rotting walkers. Amy Eastland returns to the site the discuss why Clem and Lee’s journey is just as impactful now as it was then.
We’ll Always Have Paris is as brief as it is beautiful. We welcome Odhrán Johnson to the site to review this short but memorable holiday.
It may not be any special anniversary but sometimes you just GOTTA GOD HAND.
Scott McCrae highlights just what makes this forgotten cult hit so good and why we may never get another game like it again.
WASD is the first new major in-person gaming convention since the start of the pandemic. With that comes a lot of questions. Will it be here next year? What were the games like? How do you pronounce that name? We sent Jack Richardson to investigate.
