2024 has picked up where 2023 left off and we mean that in worst way possible.
Thankfully, Alex Green is doing his best to keep us up to date on everything going on in this trashfire right now.
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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.
Update Patch | November 2023
It’s been a while since we’ve had an Update Patch on startmenu, so of course, we have a lot of terrible and messy news to catch up on.
Alex Green returns to run everything down.
Update Patch - August 2023 | Gamescom Special
Gamescom was full of 300,000 sweaty gamers, six-euro pretzels, and occasional video games. We sent Alex Green to fight through the throngs of the public halls to find the best games of the show.
And after all that he rounded up the biggest news in August too.
Report: Nintendo Could Confirm New Hardware As Soon The End Of August
It seems like confirmation of the Switch follow-up could be coming sooner, rather than later.
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.
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 | March 2023
Another month filled with video games, news, and the continued Schrodinger’s acquisition.
Alex Green is back with another Update Patch!
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 | October 2022
The scariest time of year has come and gone… AND WE’RE NOT TALKING ABOUT TAX SEASON, AMIRIGHT?
But seriously, a lot of important gaming news happened in October.
Alex Green rounds it all up.
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 | 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.
Let's Unpack Bungie's Destiny 2: Lightfall Livestream
It is basically becoming a cliche to say this but, Destiny 2 is a very different game now to the one that launched in 2017. Now, almost 5 years later, it is about to transform again.
We asked Jon/Jenna Simspon to guide us through this next era of Bungie’s MMO.
Update Patch | July 2022
July was a month of game delays, executives saying dumb things and acquisitions.
Ok, so that sounds like every month in the games industry this year but there were definitely some stories you missed.
Alex Green rounded them all up for us!
UK Games Expo - Bring Pride To The Table
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.
Update Patch | May 2022
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.
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.
Update Patch | February 2022
It is nearly impossible to care about something as seemingly quaint as video games when what is going on in the world right now continues. However, oftentimes our hobby intersects with these important issues.
Alex Green highlights all the month’s biggest video game stories including the industries’ reaction to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Update Patch | January 2022
January is usually a pretty quiet news month, so we have told Alex Green to keep this Update Patch short.
…
Wait, what happened?
Update Patch | 2021 - A Big Year For Bad News
After 2020 we joked that there was no way 2021 could be any worse… Well, Alex Green is here to round up all the ways we were wrong.
At least 2022 has to be better, right… RIGHT?