Scanlines’ Journal
Retro gaming reviews and technology with splashes of indie and free from dogma and hyperbole.
The Games Gen Z Grew Up With*
The RPG That Won't Die
Every N64 FPS #1: Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
Best Of Britain: The 10 Greatest Video Games Developed In The UK
Waging War In HOI4's Insanely Popular Fallout Mod
Putting You In Charge
The Greatest Bond Game Ever?
Coming Next: March 2026
The Hardest Game I've Ever Played?
The Great Bond Film Tier-List
Quick Read: The Other Goldeneye
Quick Read: A Trip To CEX
The Game That Made Me A Gamer
Quick Read: Switch 2 Or PlayStation 5?
Coming Next: February 2026
My Other Great Love: Literature
The Best Retro Games From Every Year (1985-1999)
My First 125 Hours Of Europa Universalis 5
Quick Read: I Prefer NES Metroid To Zero Mission
The Vampire Metroidvania That Birthed The Genre
Coming Next: Year 2 Of Scanlines' Journal
The Absolute State Of 2025
The 2025 F1 Retrospective
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Is A Mess
A Link To The Past Has Never Been Beaten
The Greatest Zelda Game?
The Best Game From Every Year Of The New Millennium
My Picks For The 2025 Game Awards
Turning The Tide In Hyrule
Popular Games I Just Don't Like
Battlefield Is Doomed
Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Are Tragic
The Final Episode - Resident Evil 0 Retrospective
Halo's Last Chance And Microsoft's Capitulation
Against The Grain - Resident Evil Code: Veronica Retrospective
Butchering A Classic - Resident Evil 3 Retrospective (2/2)
Better Than RE2? - Resident Evil 3 Retrospective (1/2)
Miary Zo Is Everything Wrong With Tekken 8
Risen From The Dead - Resident Evil 2 Retrospective (2/2)
Bigger And Better - Resident Evil 2 Retrospective (1/2)
A Big Resident Evil Fan's Hopes For Requiem
The Greatest Horror Game Ever - Resident Evil Retrospective (2/2)
Obsolete? - Resident Evil Retrospective (1/2)
Written in Blood 2025
The Other 'Silksongs'
Everything You Could Buy Instead Of Galaxy 1 + 2
Reboots And Remakes We Actually Need
The Worst Thing About Every Console Generation
The Greatest Saturn Racer, Arcade Memories And Getting Serious
Well-Known Games With Surprising Origins
The Greatest Video Game Ever Made
Imagining A New SEGA Console In 2025
The Game Where You Carve Up The World
Every Console* Ranked
We Need More Games Like This
The One Game I Can't Stop Playing
'New' Favourites List
The Phantom Pain Is Weird In Russian
Sega's Immortal Console (Ft. The Boss Level's M. Campassi)
No Flat Screen Looks As Good as CRT Feels
Wombo Combo 2: The Return of the Kong
The Kind of Seller I Will Never Deal With
Mediocre Game X Key Cards Commiserations
Console Evolved: A Halo: Combat Evolved Retrospective
The Xbox Legacy 2: Xbox 360
A Big Bond Fan's Hopes For 007: First Light
The Scanlines' Journal Article Graveyard
The Xbox Legacy 1: Xbox
The Grand Strategy Game That Rationalises Tyranny
What Is And What Isn't Retro Gaming?
There Are No Hard Games, Just Bad Teaching
The Wombo Combo
The Nintendo Lineage Finale: Wii-U
The Sandbox RPG Where Robots Deglove You Whole
The Nintendo Lineage 9: 3DS Family
The Space Game You're Not Allowed to Like
The Nintendo Lineage 8: DS Family
Twilight of the Blue Hedgehog Part 2
The Nintendo Lineage 7: Wii
Dreaming of Tamriel
The Nintendo Lineage 6: Gameboy Advance Family
Twilight of the Blue Hedgehog Part 1
The Nintendo Lineage 5: Gamecube
The Nintendo Lineage 4: Gameboy Family
The PS2's Foreboding Aesthetic
The Nintendo Lineage 3: N64
Sports Games Deserve Better
The Nintendo Lineage 2: SNES
I'm Playing My First JRPG
The Nintendo Lineage: NES
Metroid Prime 4 Reminds Me Of A Departed Friend
My Switch 2 Direct Post-Mortem
The Greatest Video Game Console Of All Time
I Hate Cosy Gaming
What's the Point in Playing?
Recording Video Game Death Noises Is My Dream Job
Scanlines' Monthly Scoop #2 (February 2025)
'Acting' In a Command & Conquer Cutscene Is my Dream Job
I Want Console Exclusives Back
Scanlines' Weekly Plays #2 (17-25th February)
The Only Switch 2 Article You Need
Scanlines' Weekly Plays #1
Scanlines' Monthly Scoop #1
20 Years of Learning to Love Resident Evil 4
Selaco: Indie Excellence? Or Just Another 'Boomer-Shooter?'
27 Years Later, is Goldeneye 007 Still Worth Playing?