The Ramp (or as I like to call it “chill lo-fi trucks to slap concrete and relax to”) is a digital toy with modest aspirations. However, Harry Boulton believes it does everything it tries so well it is almost impossible not to keep coming back to.
Horizon Zero Dawn's Sidequests Are More Important Than You Think
Marie Pritchard joins us for the first time on startmenu to explain why the sidequests in Horizon Zero Dawn are so much more than meets the eye.
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.
Review | Omno - Not of This World
Beautiful worlds? Check. Cute creatures? Check. Vibes? Check. Cee Andrews is here to let us know if there is anything Omno doesn’t have!
PRIDE 2021: Mass Effect Legendary Edition’s Lack of Queer Recompense Just Doesn’t Cut It
13 years on and one of the greatest series in video games still bares the scars of a bad faith right-wing campaign to remove its sexual and queer content. Mass Effect Legendary Edition should have finally mended things but James Troughton argues it just reopened old wounds.
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Here’s a Rundown of Everything at This Summer's EA Play Live [22/07/2021]
THE ELECTRONIC ARTISTS ARE BACK! After a year of almost silence, we finally got a look at what EA has been working on and Ollie is here to break it all down.
Review | Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights - A Familiar Friend
Indie Metroidvania Souls-like is one of the most crowded mini-genres. While Ender Lilies does not do much new, Joshua Jarrett believes that what it does do, is done nearly flawlessly.
WHY CAN'T I QUIT YOU?! - My Strained Relationship with Strategy Games
Always have a plan. That’s the key to any strategy game. Dave McAdam’s plan is to play the game wrong and quickly get annoyed.
We never said it was a good plan.
Review | Chicory: A Colorful Tale - Portrait of a Mind in 16:9
The world is full of colour, the world is full of darkness and Chicory is one of the best games of the year.
According to Ollie at least…
Review | Avorion - Ground Control to Me
Space… The final frontier… The beyond… The place where I can make a ship that looks like a doggo. Jamie A. Nicholas thinks this regularly updated 2020 release is shooting for the moon, but does its find itself among the stars?
Classic Comeback - Games of 2011 | An Ode to Skyrim
Returning to the land of dragons ten years later is a very different experience. But Eloise Evans feels that a lot of Skyrim is timeless… Mainly being able to spin around 3D assets in the loading screens, that is still very good.
So What Did Bandai Namco Actually Show At Its E3 Showcase in 2021?
Bandai Namco and Fromsoftware rocked the end of Geoff Keighely’s Summer Games Fest with the first gameplay trailer of Elden Ring. So we brought Adeola Oisnaike into breakdown its full E3 showcase… And… well… things didn’t go as planned…
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Here's a Rundown of Everything at Sony's State of Play [08/07/2021]
State of Play returns with a look at Deathloop, more Norman Reedus and a lot of punching. Ollie recaps everything shown.
Review | World's End Club - 12 Friends at the End of The World
From the creators of Danganronpa and Zero Escape, World’s End Club arrived on Apple Arcade in 2020. Now that it is on Switch Michael Beckwith is here to tell us if the game lives up to its spiritual predecessors.
PRIDE 2021: My Complicated Relationship With The Queer Characters of Assassin's Creed
The Assassin’s Creed franchise spans 12 main games and 17 spin-offs since 2007, so it makes sense that they have had several queer characters. Louise Chase is here to explain the series’ rocky representation and her relationship with it.
Preview | Magic The Gathering: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (and New Cards Reveal)
We were invited to a preview event to discover the new cards being added to Magic the Gathering in the Adventures in the Forgotten Realms update. So we sent resident MtG expert Santi Leguiza to check it out!
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.
Preview | Sable
Steam Next Fest recently ended and we are joined by Harry Boulton to tell us about one of the most striking upcoming games.
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Here's a Rundown of Everything at Nintendo's 2021 E3 Direct [15/06/2021]
We welcome Adeola Osinaike to the site for the first time to rundown everything shown at Nintendo’s E3 2021 Direct.
PRIDE 2021: The Definitive List of Queer Video Game Characters - 2021 Edition
We’ve crossed the i’s and dotted the t’s, tabulated the numbers and analysed the results. Now Oma Keeling is here to reveal the only 10 gay video game characters as determined by science.