Jon Biggin

Jon Biggin

Founder and Co-ordinator of Bradford-based video gaming collective, Button Mash.

By Jon Biggin On Tuesday, July 1st, 2014
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Games: Spoiler Alert, You Win

Spoiler Alert at first glance appears to be just another generic 2D mascot platformer. Run, jump, land on enemies’ heads to defeat them, get to the next level and save the princess. What Spoiler Alert isn’t More...

By Jon Biggin On Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014
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Games: Always Sometimes Monsters is all about the journey

/* Kim is an Asian woman in her twenties. She’s a starving artist, a writer looking to land a book publishing deal. She’s just found out the love of her life is about to marry someone else, on More...

By Jon Biggin On Wednesday, May 14th, 2014
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Games: Extrasolar is light years ahead of the game

/* “Dream to worlds beyond” is the mantra of the Exoplanetary Research Institute. For people like me, that’s not a difficult task. The prospect of alien planets and what they may hold is easy More...

By Jon Biggin On Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014
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Games: Elegy For A Dead World is the most creative title you didn’t hear about at PAX East

/* PAX East is a loud, busy and frantic gaming convention. There are a lot of titles on show and you could easily be forgiven for having missed Elegy for a Dead World. A title currently in development More...

By Jon Biggin On Thursday, April 17th, 2014
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Button Mash 8 – A celebration of gaming in Yorkshire

/* Gaming returns to the New Bradford Playhouse this Saturday 19 April with Button Mash 8. A one-day celebration of video gaming and geek culture, the team responsible for such classics as Button Mash More...

By Jon Biggin On Sunday, March 23rd, 2014
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Games: Retro Game Crunch – Out with the new, in with the old

/* I think there’s a part of all of us that likes to indulge in nostalgia occasionally. This is especially true of Rusty Moyher, Shaun Inman, and Matt Grimm, who in August 2012 got together for the More...

By Jon Biggin On Saturday, March 15th, 2014
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Games: Tower of Guns - A Love Letter to Artillery

/* The original ‘Rogue’ game was released in 1980, and as such pre-dates my own existence, however Roguelikes as a genre have been with us ever since. It’s something of a niche genre typically More...

By Jon Biggin On Tuesday, March 4th, 2014
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Games: First Look at BeatBlasters III

/* You could easily be forgiven for having not caught BeatBlasters 1 and 2. This is mainly because they don’t exist. BeatBlasters III is the first title out of Canadian developer Chainsawesome Games More...