Well… that all escalated quickly.
September was a quite, um, eventful month for the games industry, so it's a good thing that Branford Hubbard kept us up to date with all the industry news every week with his Update Patches.
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The startmenu Podcast | 016
Silksong is out, and with Lex out on assignment and Dave and KM woefully underinformed, the wonderful Mik Deitz and Ashley Schofield have jumped in to talk us through one of the biggest launches of the year. Also, NIntendo get letigious, Sony make anti-consumer moves, and KM eats lunch like a goat.
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[PATREON UNLOCK] Update Patch - August 2025
August saw the continued battle against payment processors evolve, while Gamescom hearlded several noteable accountments.
Sana SMW rounded it up each week for our ongoing Update Patches.
Review | Nintendo Switch 2 Launch Two Months Later: I Want My Switch 2 To Be My Last Traditional Game Console
The Switch 2 has been out for over two months now and after hours of play, testing, and trying to figure out why Game Key Cards exist, Sana SMW is finally ready to review the console’s historic launch.
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[PATREON UNLOCK] Update Patch - June 2025
June was a bumper news month with a new console, Summer Game Fest, and countless announcments and stories.
Good news then that Adam Wescott rounded it all up every week in our Update Patch.
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[PATREON UNLOCK] Update Patch - April 2025
An eventful month for the games industry saw Marathon getting shown off, Oblivion Remaster getting released and the BAFTAs handing out awards.
Joe Richards rounds up everything that happened in April.
The startmenu Podcast | 005 - Tom Hall Killed Xalavier Nelson Jr With A Chainsaw In Galway
Lex, Dave and KM gather to discuss the FÍS Games Summit, Trump's Tariff Chaos and its effect on the Switch 2, and the BDS boycott on Xbox and Microsoft.
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[PATREON UNLOCK] Update Patch - March 2025
Despite the Switch 2 not being announced until April, March was full of gaming news.
From Split Fiction to Tomodachi Life, Amy Eastland rounds it all up in last month’s Update Patch.
The startmenu Podcast | 004 - Supermassive Giants
On this week's podcast Dave, Lex and KM are joined by Ashley Schofield to talk about the Nintendo Direct before the Nintendo Direct and talk about Lex's adventures with her RetroTink… oh… and Sonic 06…
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[PATREON UNLOCK] Update Patch - January 2025
What a quiet and uneventful January for the world… yup hardly anything note happened…
Anyway Branford Hubbard did round up every bit of video game news from last month, so that was nice.
Squidge Rugby Reflects On The Games He Beat In 2024 | Winter Spectacular 2024
Full time Antoine Dupont stan, part time rugby analyst, and Crank Starring Jason Statham expert, Squidge Rugby returns to the site to talk about video games, depression, and waking up to Mario music.
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[PATREON UNLOCK] Update Patch - December 2024
As 2024 came to a close there was no slowing down the news train.
Thankfully, Eoghan Watters rounded up all of December’s news each week to keep us all in the loop.
Branford Hubbard's Very Gamer Christmas Carol | Winter Spectacular 2024
Genuinely no idea what to write here… Just give this piece a read.
Branford Hubbard worked hard on it.
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[PATREON UNLOCK] Update Patch - November 2024
Join Ali Rees as they wrap up all the news from last month, week by week, in this months [PATREON UNLOCK].
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[PATREON UNLOCK] Update Patch - October 2024
In our first [Patreon Unlock] we take a look at Michael Beckwith’s huge weekly rundowns of October’s news.
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Here's a Rundown of Everything at The Nintendo Indie World Showcase [11/08/2021]
Short and sweet! Nothing like a surprise deluge of cool indie games to get you through the end of a long week. Ollie rounds up everything Nintendo showed at the latest Indie World Showcase.
Review | Pokémon Sword and Shield: Isle of Armor
The Isle of Armor is exactly what the Wild Area should have been
Classic Comeback | Advance Wars: Dual Strike
Aza Hudson takes a look back at the old days, before the Advance Wars franchise was unceremoniously dumped by Nintendo.
E3 Nintendo Round-Up
Calypso Mellor gives a fresh take on the conference you’ve already heard everything about. Take a look
Review | Cadence of Hyrule
Cadence of Hyrule is the crossover we never knew we needed. Jon Simpson’s review lets us know why.