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Mike Minotti Wants To Remind You That You're Doing Great | Winter Spectacular 2023
What a weird, fun, wild year.
Mike Minotti has proven himself to be the one man able to baffle Dan Ryckert, played a lot of Resident Evil 4, and dressed up like RoboCop… Like… A lot…
But he wants you to know that you’re doing great.
So You've Broken Into Games Journalism... What Next, Ask Jess Reyes | Winter Spectacular 2023
So you’ve broken into video game journalism… What now?
Jess Reyes might have some ideas for you.
Alex Green Posits 2023 Is The Last Great Year For Games | Winter Spectacular 2023
For the last three years, Alex Green has been writing a monthly news column for startmenu so you should listen closely when they warn of impending doom.
He looks back at 2023 and why it may well be the last great year for video games.
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.
Emma Park's 3 Easy Steps To Get A Games Industry Job That Might Take You 10 Years | Winter Spectacular 2023
Breaking into the games industry is hard, and there’s no set path, but Emma Park is here to outline three easy steps that definitely, might, maybe, if you are lucky get you are job in the industry… in ten years.
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!
Journalism Has A Skill Issue - Jason Coles | Winter Spectacular 2022
Every now and again discourse happens. And every now and again, despite every bone in your body knowing you should just move on you can’t.
And every now and again Jason Coles writes something for startmenu.
Burning Out On Your Passion And Rediscovering Your Hobby
Somehow Jamie A. Nicholas has burnout on playing games and just can’t put his finger on why. Maybe putting pen to paper might result in some answers?
Jessica Reyes' Advice For How To Spot Signs Of Abuse In The Games Industry And What To Do | Winter Spectacular 2021
No quippy jokes here. This is just a very important piece that everyone, especially folks trying to break into the games industry, should read.
Thank you to Jessica Reyes for writing it.
Josh Broadwell Wants You To Celebrate Your Wins, Especially When You Don't Feel Like It | Winter Spectacular 2021
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
KillJoy's Vtubing Rollercoaster | Winter Spectacular 2021
2021 felt more like an arduous trek than anything else in many ways. KillJoy certainly had his fair share of challenges but he sure has ended up in a pretty damn cool place if we say so ourselves.
What Khee Hoon Chan Learned From Six Exhausting Years of Freelancing | Winter Spectacular 2021
You can do a lot in six years, you can also learn a lot of lessons, Khee Hoon Chan certainly has, and they want to share some of those lessons with you.