June has come and gone but the scent of Summer Game Fest lingers… It smells like gamers… AND NEWS!
Alex Green rounds up all of last month’s biggest events in this month’s Update Patch.
All tagged Sonic
The Best Games Eoghan Watters Played This Year | Winter Spectacular 2023
2023 was a year so packed full of video games that it was hard to play even a fraction of them.
We welcome Eoghan Watters to the website to run down their favourite games from last year!
Update Patch | Summer Showcase Spectacular
It’s the summer so of course the video game announcements are coming quick and fast.
Alex Green tries to wrap up the highlights of the last two months in this latest Update Patch.
Best Of 2022: Maddie's Dance Beat | Winter Spectacular 2022
2022 was the year Madeline Blondeau rediscovered her love of writing about games.
These were the games that helped rekindle that flame.
Henry Stockdale's Top 5 Games Of 2022 | Winter Spectacular 2022
We tore Henry Stockdale out of virtual reality for just long enough for him to write about his favourite flat-games!
Update Patch | November 2022
The year is almost over but the video game news machine doesn’t stop no matter what. Alex Green is here with a rundown of everything that happened in the industry in November.
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.
Preview | startmenu EGX 2022 Roundup
There was a lot of awesome stuff at EGX.
Mainly the incredible startmenu crew that could attend… I guess the games were pretty neat too. Some of the gang rounded up our favourite games at the show!
Update Patch | August 2022 (Gamescom Edition)
This edition of Update Patch is brought to you by Kolsch, pork knuckle and big halls of sweaty gamers. But there was also plenty of other news this month outside of what happened in Germany.
startmenu Podcast Episode 17 - Why Does Anyone Like Sonic?
startmenu has assembled its finest minds in an attempt to answer the unanswerable.
What is up with Sonic?
startmenu Podcast 14 - Are There Any Video Game Movies Left To Make?
The gang assembled to talk about what video games we'd like to see turned into movies, but we quickly realised something... Are there any games left worth making into films?
Games, Mental Health and The Digital Realms We Escape To
Mental Health is a hard and complex thing and sometimes we just need a break from it all. Sometimes we just need to spend some time in another world.
Kelsey Raynor looks at the relationship between our mental health and the faraway worlds we spend time in.
Update Patch | August 2021
Last month felt like the beginning of a long reckoning and so it felt very strange to be “celebrating games” this month with Gamescom. Alex Green is back to help us run this strange gambit of news.
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Here's a Rundown of Everything At The Future Game's Show [25/06/2021]
Future Publishing had two separate E3 press conferences this year, which is kinda weird the more we think about it. But both were chock full of video game trailers. So we brought in Alex Green to break down the Future Games Show for E3 2021.
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Here’s a Rundown of Everything Show at The Summer Games Fest Kick-off Livestream [10/06/2021]
*slaps Geoff Keighley’s head* This baby can fit so damn many video game announcements in it. Ollie breaks down everything shown at the Summer Games Fest kick-off livestream.
Classic Comeback - Games of 2011 | Sonic Generations and Discovering 30 Years of Speed
Time for a quick maths lesson. Sonic turns 30 this year, 10 years ago Sega decided to release Sonic Generations to celebrate the Blue Blurs 20th Birthday, Sonic Forces was used to celebrate his 25th birthday. What are the odds of 2021 being a good year for Sonic? Ben Wincote isn’t interested in what may happen, he is here to tell us about how great Sonic Generations was
New Sonic the Hedgehog Trailer Released
It’s gotta go… fast…