Ben Sledge

Hello, I'm Ben! I'm an award-losing reporter and games consultant. Here's what I do: 🧑‍🎓 Writing and Reporting Lecturer at University of Greater Manchester ✊ Head of Community at Journo Resources 🤔 Consultant for hire at [redacted] 📝 Games industry reporter and critic www.bensledge.co.uk

A weekend of contrasts for Alexia Putellas. Last night, she won the Ballon D'or Féminin for the third time, arguably the crowning achievement of women's football, which cemented her at the greatest female footballer of all time. On Sunday she went to St Helens.

shoutout to the cafe I'm working from today for just playing dopamine chamber, start to finish, on repeat

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

sometimes reviewing games is a really tough job. for instance, when you really want to be playing star wars galactic racer

A cheeky reminder that I'm available for work and since going freelance I've done cool stuff for Gamespot, VGC, Techradar, GamesRadar, and more to come. If you need someone to cover the latest games, films, shows, and other releases please hit me up. Super eager to get some thngs on the docket 👋🔥

hearing that a main character has a scouse accent in star wars galactic racer versus actually hearing a woman from surrey trying to do a scouse accent in star wars galactic racer

Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.

new pinned skeet soz

Sable is probably in my top five games ever, and the Design Works book is just as beautiful. Really interesting to read these reflections and - as I'm off sick this week - might be time for a comfort replay

might finally be time to start an aos army

might finally be time to start an aos army

More true for 10 y/o me than 20, but I've always said I'd be amazed at the fact that I'm a successful* writer, but shocked at what being a successful* writer actually entails. *successful i.e. earning a living from it as my sole** income **transitioning away from it now but you know

Here's my write-up from the Japanese premiere of Backrooms, where @hideokojimaen.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp & Kane Parsons talked about analogue media, liminal horror & Kane's roots in the Source Engine. postmode.org/hideo-kojima...

This Sept marks my first year writing about tabletop games with @rascal.news! I'm immensely grateful, and have learned a lot from the Rascal folks who have taught me so much about the industry and being a better writer, so I wanted to share some of my fave pieces over the past year.

it's frankly rude that i'm the only person in the entire world who hasn't played total war: 40k yet

no ragrets

there are a mere 64 minutes remaining on our flash sale. use the code WeKilledTheSun at checkout and get 50% off every other item in your cart. wyrd.science/collections/...

finished my 30th book of the year and realised that about six of them have been great. not a good ratio give me your reccs. preferably fairly recent, not horror

I got laid off! 👋 There was no chance to say goodbye to my colleagues of several years before Valnet deactivated everything so I’ll just say it was a huge pleasure to be part of trying to build something unique within the games media landscape despite going up against so many challenges.

The 'ol email and deactivate after 5 years was expected, but still sad. Still, I'm proud of what I accomplished during my time at TheGamer (and DualShockers before that). Now I can spend my days writing ponderous blog posts ✍️

Thanks everyone for the kind words here. I'm one of the lucky ones in that this was just one arm of my freelancing. Other, full-time, staff have also been impacted, so please look to hire them first. But then hire me, too.

accidentally started an underground book swap ring at book club so I end up bringing about six books a week to hand out/give back

this interview transcript is longer than any of my attempts at writing a novel

been looking for this for longer than I care to admit

the menacing montessori air fryer can't hurt you the menacing montessori air fryer:

living for the pokemon x j league collaboration

just said "you too" to the taxi driver when he told me to have a nice flight ama

wulfem dafoe

your girl is, as ever, looking for work 💜 essayist, critic, journalist, published author hire me for crit, features, reviews, interviews, reporting, news, and entire books words: lost in cult, unwinnable, VGC, RPS, EDGE, polygon, mothership, stop caring, and many more ashlikeadragon.bearblog.dev

why did nobody tell me curaçao's national anthem was a saucy jazz affair

cannot articulate why, but this is a 100% correct pokemon take