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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The startmenu Podcast | 003 - Game Bass Fishing
With Dave back in the hosting chair for this week's podcast, Lex and KM talk about their experiences playing Wanderstop and discuss the latest news including a new mobile version Disco Elysium, Xbox's handheld plans, and the new Death Stranding 2 trailer.
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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.
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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.
Review | Indiana Jones and The Great Circle - Sacred, Ancient And Special
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is a lavishly loving ode to one of cinema’s greatest action heroes and while it’s gameplay isn’t always best in class, it’s ambition and story pass with flying colours.
Charlie Wacholz reviews.
Review In Progress | S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - A Long Winding Road
S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 is a vast game that we feel like we’ve barely scratched the surface of.
But the more Angus Law plays the more rewarding the experience is becoming.
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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.
Update Patch | August 2024
August has come and gone and seen plenty of game announcements, game releases and game news.
Alex Green rounds everything of note up in another Update Patch.
Update Patch | May 2024
There was so much gaming news over the last week you could be forgiven for forgetting what happened in the month leading up to SGF.
Thankfully Alex Green is back with another Update Patch, this time for May 2024
Update Patch | April 2024
THINGS ARE GOING GREAT IN THE GAMES INDUSTRY… WHY DO YOU ASK?
Alex Green definitely isn’t desperately looking for any positives in this month’s Update Patch.
Update Patch | March 2024
Things continue to be rough in the video game industry this year with more layoffs, controversies and confusion in 2024.
Alex Green takes a look back at March to try to figure out what is going on.
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.
10 The Wildest Video Game News Stories of 2022 | Winter Spectacular 2022
A lot of news happened in the games industry in 2022, and some of it was almost too wild to believe… and yet here we are.
Michael Beckwith has a top-ten-list-worth of wild stuff, that barely scratches the surface of this industry.
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!
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.
Review | Tunic - The Language of Zelda
𝓁ꕤ𒆩𒆩 𝓔☘ϟ𒆨☾♈︎ Finji’s Tunic! ♋︎₂«❀» Zelda-↺ ت𒆨𒆨ϟ 《☽☾².
Lex Luddy ♒︎♒︎♉︎☼ღ review ☽✺꧂ ♍︎【↓♋︎ ?
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?
Alex Green Looks Back at Xbox's Eventful Year | Winter Spectacular 2021
When you have been in the games industry for 20 years now 12 months might not seem like a big deal. But Xbox’s 2021 felt like a bit of a landmark.
Alex Green breaks down Microsoft’s 20th year selling attitudinal big black boxes.