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Ben Sledge

@bensledge.co.uk
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Award-losing freelance journalist, reporter, and consultant. Head of Community, Journo Resources Words: Eurogamer, EDGE, GamesRadar+, The Guardian, IGN, NME, Kotaku, VICE, more ✍ he/him

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/09/2026
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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Satellite images show Gaza in ruins three years into Israel's genocidal war
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
The before and after it's even more haunting.
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 27/09/2026
been at an incredibly inspiring and creatively fulfilling indie tabletop games convention this weekend, called SpruCon. this is the only picture I took
Latex faces available to be traded for miniatures.
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 27/09/2026
new pinned skeet soz
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 27/09/2026
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
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Journalist, Narrative Designer, Consultant, Author - Ben Sledge
Ben Sledge's portfolio. Looking for an experienced reporter, narrative designer, or games industry consultant? You've come to the right place.
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 24/09/2026
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
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 18/09/2026
might finally be time to start an aos army
A Warhammer dwarf called thrynn
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 18/09/2026
might finally be time to start an aos army
A Warhammer dwarf called thrynn
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 17/09/2026
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
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Jordan Oloman @oloman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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...
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“I made Metal Gear at 23. A24 didn't call me until I was 59": Hideo Kojima & Kane Parsons at the Japanese premiere of Backrooms
What Kojima saw in Backrooms — an empty furniture store, an empty Shibuya crossing — and what a childhood in the Source Engine does to a person.
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kheehoon chan Still Needs Work @crapstacular.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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.
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 31/08/2026
it's frankly rude that i'm the only person in the entire world who hasn't played total war: 40k yet
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 19/08/2026
no ragrets
the cover of steps gold greatest hits album with the five band members wearing various shades of beige, presumably meant to look like gold.
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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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/...
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Wyrd Science – Tabletop Gaming Magazines, Merch & More
Everything that we have on sale including magazines, merch, t-shirts, art prints, books and more.
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 16/08/2026
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
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Jade King ✍️ OPEN FOR WORK @konayma6.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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.
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Jack Coleman @crustypants.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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 ✍️
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 11/08/2026
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.
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 11/08/2026
It seems I've been made redundant from my role as a columnist at TheGamer - I can no longer access Slack or the CMS. While I'm gutted with the manner I've been let go from a site I've worked with for nearly five years, this means I've got plenty of time to write words for you! www.bensledge.co.uk
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Journalist, Narrative Designer, Consultant, Author - Ben Sledge
Ben Sledge's portfolio. Looking for an experienced reporter, narrative designer, or games industry consultant? You've come to the right place.
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 30/07/2026
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
A pile of six books including Fair Stood the Wind for France by HE Bates, Circe by Madeline Miller, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, The Vegetarian by Han Kang, Hunger by Choi Jin-Young, and I Hear a New World by Alan Moore.
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 27/07/2026
this interview transcript is longer than any of my attempts at writing a novel
google docs word count saying 22,148 words
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 27/07/2026
for ay of my fellow wardollies sickos, I've been working on this dark mech conversion recently. still a lot of gaps to fill etc. but liking the silhouette
Belisarius Cawl Dark Mechanicus conversion
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 26/07/2026
been looking for this for longer than I care to admit
A shiny Mega Mewtwo Y in Pokémon Go
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 17/07/2026
the menacing montessori air fryer can't hurt you the menacing montessori air fryer:
A Montessori air fryer. It looks menacing.
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 17/07/2026
hopped on the hobby trend of collaging playing cards. accidentally spent 6 hours cutting up old copies of edge and gluing my fingers together
Collaged playing cards in a pile.
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 06/07/2026
living for the pokemon x j league collaboration
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 06/07/2026
just said "you too" to the taxi driver when he told me to have a nice flight ama
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 29/06/2026
wulfem dafoe
Sickos meme with Willem Dafoe's face on.
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 27/06/2026
I regret to inform you I don't like the Space Elves on Dinosaurs
A Space Elf on a Dinosaur
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Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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
The splash art for Lost in Cult's book VA-11 Hall-A: Design Works, written by me, displaying its front cover and slipcase.A magazine cover of Unwinnable Monthly #191, with the feature being my essay 'I Don't Want To Be This Kind of Animal Anymore' and art by Shafer Brown. 

An excerpt reads:

In the dark times, should the stars also go out?

'Revachol is still. Silent. Decades of unrest, corruption and capital gain have reduced it to a shell of a city. And yet, under these sullen skies, a miracle is happening. The limbed and headed machine of pain and undignified suffering is firing up again.'My essay 'No Good Options', published on Stop Caring.

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"God, it is just us talking now, and I worry about everything I can’t control. God, can you tell me how much longer I’ll get to be alive and in love. God, I am sorry for the times I didn’t want to stick around. God, there is a scroll of things I have taken for granted in order to survive this long, and it is endless." - Hanif Abdurraqib, On Seatbelts and Sunsets
Often, when I am struck with the awareness of my sinking into the freezing depths of depression and suicidal ideation, I turn to art that reflects it. It could be self destructive. It could make my sobs heavier, my tears denser, my arms wrapped tighter around my knees. But it helps to make it hurt less.My review of Yakuza Kiwami 3 for Video Games Chronicle.

Sega delivers a disappointing remake built on disdain, not reverence, looking to fix a game that wasn’t broken

Some remakes are a product of passion and respect for the source material being adapted. A few bells and whistles shed to streamline, but the heart of the original experience is maintained in a genuine, adoring attempt to revitalise and rebirth. Others are Yakuza Kiwami 3: Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio demonstrates little but condescension for Yakuza 3, the game it purports to be remaking.
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 23/06/2026
keep mistaking jordan ayew's bandaged head for another ball
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 18/06/2026
just got my tax rebate. trying desperately not to immediately click 'checkout' on a warlord titan for hit tabletop game warhammer forty thousand
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 14/06/2026
why did nobody tell me curaçao's national anthem was a saucy jazz affair
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 13/06/2026
cannot articulate why, but this is a 100% correct pokemon take
A Reddit post saying "I feel like Conkledurr has extremist views"
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 12/06/2026
I'm obsessed with 38-0, this cute browser game where you draft a squad from 11 randomly-chosen Premier League teams, with the intent to win every match in a season. This is the closest I've got with a cracking draft and a scummy 5-4-1 formation. Scored 100 goals and 105 points though.
A score card showing my record, 35 wins and 3 losses, as well as my squad of Wayne Rooney, Eden Hazard, Patrick Vieira, Steven Gerrard, Joe Cole, Wayne Bridge, Vincent Kompany, Rio Ferdinand, Sol Campbell, Pablo Zabaleta, and Petr Cech. Sorry there are so many Mancs in there.
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 10/06/2026
this is a ridiculous deal. in fact, I might buy it just to gift every game to various pals because they're all that good and the charity is well worth supporting
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 08/06/2026
Today is the last day of Dreams on a Pillow's main campaign. Despite Israel massacring people in several countries including Palestine - here's a courageous Palestinian-made game about where it all started -about the 1948 Nakba- and on how things were before it. www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...
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“Dreams on a Pillow” is in development - Help Us Tell The Full Story | LaunchGood | LaunchGood
Development of the stealth adventure game about the Nakba is underway. New game trailer headlines a final crowdfunding push for remaining budget until release.
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Kirk McKeand @mckkirk.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Watch or read my chat with Abubakar Salim for free. We talk about navigating hostile territory in video games, working with Ridley Scott, staying in shape for roles, and loads more. Subscribes and shares mean a lot and let me do more of these. www.gaming.firezidechat.com/p/firezide-c...
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Firezide Chat with Abubakar Salim
A chat about how game development is much harder than being an actor, what the industry can do to push back against toxicity and support diverse voices, and why he’d most like to be reincarnated as a ...
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 03/06/2026
John Blanche is the only real 'hobby hero' I've ever had. His art inspired me in ways no other visual artist has ever done and has impacted my life, work, and hobbies in innumerable ways. I'm saddened and honoured to write his obituary for TheGamer. www.thegamer.com/iconic-warha...
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Iconic Warhammer 40k Artist John Blanche Has Died
John Blanche was responsible for many iconic pieces of Warhammer artwork and epitomised the grimdark setting of Warhammer 40k.
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Quinn Rhodes (he/him) @onqueerstreet.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I have an incredibly specific request for cis journalists and editors: push for your publication’s style guide to be updated to include not only the use of they/them pronouns, but also of multiple pronouns.
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 31/05/2026
coffin flop: the game
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 22/05/2026
you thought I was joking
a path through a forest with green nettles and narrow pine trees
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Eteo Games @eteogames.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
We've now published all our articles for Volume 1 of Eteo Archetypes! Over the last 6 months, our video game articles have covered... 🏰 Flying Cities 🍂 Seasons 🌦️ Skyboxes 📻 Radios 🕹️ Minigames 🏃‍♀️ Chase Sequences And you can read them all for free by signing up to our newsletter: www.eteogames.com
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 21/05/2026
out of office is on. going to commune with the fae in a forest in the peak district and not even think about a computer for a week and a half
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 20/05/2026
QTP with a gif of the game you’re currently playing 🎮 (the critic's curse)
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kheehoon chan Still Needs Work @crapstacular.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Did a fun thing with Ben, one of my fave ppl in games media, at The Wand Report - we decided on a letter series format (very much inspired by the letter series I've done with the rest of the @rascal.news gang) - and talk about our feelings on Zero Parade
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 18/05/2026
Had the opportunity to do something cool for my Zero Parades review: collaborate with my favourite critic and good friend @crapstacular.bsky.social! You can read our conversation in Portofiro on The Wand Report report.wand.com/reviews/zero...
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Zero Parades Review - The Wand Report
An incisive, well-written spy fiction that may never shake the Disco Elysium comparisons.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Horrifying. 😥 "War has always been deadly to children, but now a new concern has arisen in Gaza, where they seem to be vanishing without explanation. Parents believe that they are being abducted, but no-one knows what becomes of them."
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Gaza’s new terror: the disappearing children - Bylines Scotland
Palestinian parents fear the worst as children vanish from the streets of Gaza amid claims that they are being abducted
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Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 06/05/2026
saw kneecap last night at a tiny venue in liverpool. incredible gig, and I respect them so much for taking so much time out their set to talk about palestine, hold the government to account, and chant "Maggie's in the mud"
Two young men dressed all in black dancing extremely aggressively on stage with the red word FENIAN behind them.A man in a green, orange, and white balaclava singing to the crowd.
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 05/05/2026
HAPPY CITIZEN SLEEPER DAY! 🎉 The series is 4 today and I have ⭐NEWS⭐ 🚀 Announcing CITIZEN SLEEPER: HELION RISING, a full TTRPG in the CS universe, coming 2027! ⭐LAST CHANCE to get CS2: DESIGN WORKS at Lost in Cult! ◼️What's next for JOTA? Something is growing in the dark, see it emerge June 7th...
Citizen Sleeper Day 2026. HELION RISING. CS2 DESIGN WORKS. And what's next for Jump Over the Age?
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