Hyper Light Breaker is more than a new direction for Heart Machine’s breakout indie hit it may as well be a new series.
Skeleton just can’t figure out who this new series might be for.
Review | Dynasty Warriors: Origins - Old Dog, New Tricks
Dynasty Warriors is back and while the new consoles enable plenty of new encouraging advancements some lingering series-spanning issues persist.
Alex Green reviews.
Review | Go Home Annie - Home Is Where The Horrors Lie
Go Home Annie isn’t the longest game but its bite-sized nature works for the game’s SCP setting, even if some of the puzzles are less than stellar.
Zackary Edwards reviews.
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[PATREON UNLOCK] Update Patch - January 2025
What a quiet and uneventful January for the world… yup hardly anything note happened…
Anyway Branford Hubbard did round up every bit of video game news from last month, so that was nice.
Review | Mindcop - Five Days, One Killer, And A Whole Lot Of Overthinking
Mindcop is a moody and strange detective tale with a great artstyle and killer conceit.
Tyler Denyer reviews.
Review | Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector - Bigger, Better, And More Existentially Challenging
Two and a half years after the first game’s release Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector successfully makes space feel even bigger.
Ali Rees reviews this must-play RPG.
Beautiful, Small Experiences Amidst Grief and Pine: A Story of Loss
Pine: A Story of Loss is less of a video game and more of a lightly interactive meditation on grief, yet despite this, or maybe because of it, David Cole found it to be a deeply moving experience.
Review | Slopecrashers - Crashing Through The Snow
Slopecrashers is a game where you can play as a penguin riding a snowboard so it’s off to a strong start.
Can this SSX-inspired arcade racer live up to that concept? Morgan Bordoni reviews.
Review | Tiny Terry’s Turbo Trip - Perpetually Postponed Playtime Periodical
It’s been a while coming but our review of Tiny Terry’s Turbo Trip is finally ready to go and with it, Vivian Winn has found a joyous romp of a 3D platformer.
startmenu's Very Busy 2024 In Numbers
2024 had it all on startmenu from Metaphor to Mouthwashing, Indiana to Indika, from Final Fantasy VII to umm… Final Fantasy XIV.
Alex Green breaks down startmenu’s year in numbers.
Review | Ravenswatch - An Unkindness of Ravens
Ravenswatch’s solid co-op action RPG comabt acts the backbone for a deeply satisfying roguelike.
Branford Hubbard reviews the next game Passtech Games.
Review | Super Waifu Ball - The Wrong Sort Of Monkey Business
Super Waifu Ball might be easy to brush off as cheap smut or another Steam “Hentai ____” game, but that’s a little bit unfair.
Sana engages with the Monkey Ball-inspired game on its own merits.
Review | Ganryu 2 - A Home Port Of An Arcade Game That Doesn't Exist Anymore
Ganryu 2 is a recreation of what we remember gaming being, flaws and all.
Is it good? Holly Redfield just thinks it is a home port of an arcade game that doesn’t exist.
Squidge Rugby Reflects On The Games He Beat In 2024 | Winter Spectacular 2024
Full time Antoine Dupont stan, part time rugby analyst, and Crank Starring Jason Statham expert, Squidge Rugby returns to the site to talk about video games, depression, and waking up to Mario music.
Jay Weaver's Belated Highlights From A Day At EGX (28.10.24)
Despite it being a comparably quiet year for the show, Jay Weaver found plenty of games worth highlighting from EGX 2024.
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[PATREON UNLOCK] Update Patch - December 2024
As 2024 came to a close there was no slowing down the news train.
Thankfully, Eoghan Watters rounded up all of December’s news each week to keep us all in the loop.
Jess Reyes Discovers There’s a Life Outside of the Games Industry | Winter Spectacular 2024
In 2024 Jess Reyes realised that she didn’t need to define herself by her work, and started to think about a life outside of games journalism.
Lex Luddy's Expanded Game Of The Year List... And Sonic 06 | Winter Spectacular 2024
2024 was a pretty terrible year for Lex Luddy, but turns out that despite already writing a Game Of The Year List for Giant Bomb, she still wants to talk about a few things before the year is out.
Branford Hubbard's Very Gamer Christmas Carol | Winter Spectacular 2024
Genuinely no idea what to write here… Just give this piece a read.
Branford Hubbard worked hard on it.
Khee Hoon Chan Breaks Down The Death March Of The Games Media | Winter Spectacular 2024
2024 was a brutal year for the video game industry with over 14,000 layoffs across the industry, but this number doesn’t take into account the devastating damage done to games media.
Khee Hoon Chan breaks it down.