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.
All tagged Cyberpunk 2077
Did Microsoft Win Summer Games Fest 2023? (Spoiler Alert: It’s Very Likely)
What a season. What a season. The Summer of video games is really in full swing, but has Microsoft already won the news season of 2023?
Tal thinks so.
Update Patch | September 2022
This Update Patch is late?
A monthly news update is never late. It gets posted exactly when it means to!
Or a few days after Alex Green gets done writing it.
Update Patch | April 2022
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.
Video Games Still Have a (Body) Image Problem
Video games don’t have a great history of portraying realistic bodies and despite years of change, Jamie A. Nicholas believes the industry still struggles to present anything other than buff men.
Update Patch | July 2021
Huge content warning, some truly awful things came out about the games industry this month. However, we and Alex Green felt it was necessary to cover it in our monthly round-up.
Update Patch | June 2021
Just because we were all occupied with E3 doesn’t mean there wasn’t lots of other video game news. To catch us all up Alex Green is back with this month’s Update Patch.
PRIDE 2021: A Brief History of Modern Trans Characters in Games
We have come a long way for the region dependant, uncertain and offensive portrayal of Poison in Street Fighter II but there is still a long way to go. As part of our month of LGBTQAI+ articles this Pride, Natalie Raine looks at eight important trans characters in modern games - from the good, to the yikes, to the “it’s complicated”.
Update Patch | February 2021
Controversy, Metallica, movies, bad games and Phil Harrison. February had a lot of news, so it is a good thing Alex Green has summarised all down into one nifty article for you to read.
Cyberpunk 2077 on Consoles is a Disaster and Sony and Microsoft Need to Take Responsibility | Winter Spectacular 2020
I doubt you’ve heard because it’s a pretty small news story but that new Cyberpunk game is kinda busted. We welcome Najib Hassan to the site to explain why this problem is just as much Sony and Microsoft’s as it is CD Projekt Red’s.