Jay Weaver

Dartford, England, Exeter

Journalist and Writer at Freelance

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What Does It Take to Appreciate Turbo Kid (2024)? - Unwinnable

1 month ago | unwinnable.com | Jay Weaver

This is a feature excerpt from Unwinnable Monthly #187. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price. ———You’re a rocker, you’re a roller, and you’re out of control in the heat of an apocalypse – assuming that listening to synthwave on a BMX in a lukewarm-kinda heated apocalypse counts, that is.
Review | Phantom Breaker: Battlegrounds Ultimate – Thirty-Eight Eclectics from the Seventh Gen — startmenu

1 month ago | startmenu.co.uk | Jay Weaver

Phantom Breaker: Battlegrounds Ultimate (developed by Rocket Panda Games from earlier this year) opens with a gorgeously expressive and stylistic hand-drawn cutscene that alternates between depicting its action through cute, low-fidelity chibi-esque caricatures and expressive, high-fidelity combatant characters.
She, I

2 months ago | archivesabound.wixsite.com | Jay Weaver

Content warning: Death, Explicit Language I think, therefore She is. She thinks, I no longer am. She left the house this morning, mature, and ready toembrace She’s newly afforded independence. She kissedthe dog as She left the front door and turned around tosee him eagerly awaiting She’s return with a wag in his tail. That was the saddest that She has ever felt, forShe has never felt the feeling of significant loss or pain. She’s ex messaged She this morning.
Jay Weaver's Belated Highlights From A Day At EGX (28.10.24) — startmenu

Jan 4, 2025 | startmenu.co.uk | Jay Weaver

EGX (Eurogamer Expo) is an event held in the UK and Germany that uplifts independent creatives and brings people together to shine a light on games that can’t usually get the spotlight on their own. I approve of the plan, so, for those who couldn't attend, here are the games that I found most memorable from a day at EGX.
Jay Weaver’s Favourite Games From His Favourite Gaming Year Were About How It All Sucks, Actually | Winter Spectacular 2024 — startmenu

Dec 9, 2024 | startmenu.co.uk | Jay Weaver

Swansea, the character I related to the most from the game – depressingly, I suppose – foretold his decline and strove for change. In the game’s best moment, he makes it clear that after years of being a drunkard, years of stagnation, a “vision of [his] bloated body in some ditch” is what pushes him to be productive, enter the life of a blue-collar, and stagnate into capitalism instead. This May, Sunset Visitor released 1000xResist, a game about a lot.
Review | Great God Grove – Armed With An Oxford Dictionary And A Pack Of Children’s Crayons — startmenu

Nov 26, 2024 | startmenu.co.uk | Jay Weaver

Rodney – easily my favourite character from Great God Grove (LIMBOLANE, 2024) – is succinctly the perfect example of what I believe to be most of the game’s strengths to sell it as an experience worth experiencing. Using this elusive and omnipotent canine as a synecdoche of sorts to recommend the game may seem reductive, whereas it is actually a testament to how every moment felt whimsically distinctive and left its mark seared into my memory.
‘Shocktober’ Media Recommendations

Oct 25, 2024 | archivesabound.wixsite.com | Jay Weaver

Jay Weaver recommends more media for October:The Horror: MANSION (Lost in Cult, 2024)Purchasable from: Fangamer & Lost in CultDeparting from recommending video games, here’s a recommendation for a book about video games. While this compendium does not encompass the entire breadth of my media intake and interests, it does provide a fascinating insight into the development and creative processes of some of the interactive medium’s best horror hits.
Four new Horror Games for your Student Budget 'Shocktober'

Oct 25, 2024 | exepose.com | Jay Weaver

0 Seeing through any holiday is quite difficult as a student, but never is this more felt than funding an assortment of snacks, pumpkins, outfit parts, and horror media between a part-time job and preparation for the first load of assignment deadlines in the first term.
Review | Mouthwashing - Up Or Down The Corporate Ladder? — startmenu

Oct 24, 2024 | startmenu.co.uk | Jay Weaver

I first played How Fish is Made (Wrong Organ, 2022) early last year after having it hyped up to me by the many think pieces discussing it online. Despite the many writers and monotone British guys – like myself – that buttered it up to look like the shiniest of Steam’s free horror experiences, the game still floored me and surpassed all expectations I had.
'Shocktober' Game Recommendations

Oct 20, 2024 | archivesabound.wixsite.com | Jay Weaver

Jay Weaver recommends games for the spooky season:Mouthwashing (Wrong Organ, 2024)Playable on: PC (Steam)Apparently, suffering in the vastness of Space is as horrifying as suffering witha bad and low-paying employer. 2022’s How Fish is Made was a free-to-play experience that sought to capture the plethora of philosophies and beliefs people commit themselves to and condescend in their direction while also reaching out a hand of sympathy.