Ben Sledge

@bensledge.co.uk

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Award-losing freelance journalist, reporter, and consultant. Words: Eurogamer, EDGE, GamesRadar+, The Guardian, IGN, NME, Kotaku, VICE, more ✍ he/him

A playing card with a red and yellow background, red and brown stripes, and black text in a white box saying "limited palette" in poor ink printing.
A king of hearts playing card with collaged elements including Francis Bacon's Figure with Meat and blood effects.
A Montessori air fryer. It looks menacing.
Collaged playing cards in a pile.
Cyndaquil and the Nagoya Grampus badge
Sickos meme with Willem Dafoe's face on.
A Space Elf on a Dinosaur
A Reddit post saying "I feel like Conkledurr has extremist views"
An email reading, "Actually incredible that I somehow replied to our own alias, but not you"
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.
a snail climbing a tree
a path through a forest with green nettles and narrow pine trees
The word redacted with letters shifting
Knight of Umbar' on foot and horseback miniatures
The old and new chaos defilers next to each other to show scale
Assassin's Creed for the Xbox 360
Two young men dressed all in black dancing extremely aggressively on stage with the red word FENIAN behind them.
The cover of Wyrd Science, featuring a purple skull with mushrooms growing out of it.
Gollum in his cave lit by a shaft of light. The Lord of the Rings The Hunt for Gollum is written in gold at the top.
Edge issue 423 subscriber's cover
Illustration of two Ortolan birds.
A person with a sheet over their head riding a brown and green bird. Their title, Lord Ortolan, is painted onto the base.
an interview transcript reading "Cool. Stunning cock. Thank you very much for your time."
Timothy Dalton smiling in front of a picture of Timothy Dalton smiling in Hot Fuzz.
A new York times article with the headline: What are jacket potatoes and why are the English waiting hours for them?
A Lego box containing eight Lego gym badges.
The Pokémon Lego set of eight Kanto gym badges, boxed, in a child's pram.
A red cloaked tech priest with a glowing servo skull in a brown and gold frame.
Pokémon go journal showing Cobalion and Galarian Moltres feeling from successive encounters.
My top nine games, Disco Elysium, Celeste, Citizen Sleeper, Titanfall 2, Before Your Eyes, Sable, Heaven's Vault, Pokémon SoulSilver, and Fallout: New Vegas.
Google Docs word count showing 11,688 words.
A man with a moustache (me) takes a sip of a pint and nods in satisfaction.
Shelves of Warhammer themed spirits
Bugmans bar menu showing a range of thematic drinks
The pump badge at Bugmans bar in Warhammer world, labelled Boltgun pale ale 4.0000%
An illustration of a mum, dad, and toddler accompanied by the words "meet Alice, your AI-powered childcare guide for trusted advice and support."
Google trends graph showing interest in curling spiking alongside the winter olympics.
A city street in Seoul at night. A neon sign is in focus while cars and pedestrians zoom past in blurs.
A white plastic instrument on a table. It has three holes in decreasing size labelled 3, 2, and 1, each purporting to the number of servings it represents.
Leaderboard for a luge game showing 12 best times
a comment on a Google Doc saying "Pspspspsp should end with an 's', surely?
A Warhammer box for a Sister Dogmata
google doc word count showing 48 pages and 20,297 words
A screenshot of Spotify playing Sea Power's Disco Elysium album
an ultramarines techmarine with a head that is half-flesh, half-robot augmetics, a prosthetic arm, and multiple servo arms walks towards the camera.
A pro Palestine march through Liverpool city centre. There are lots of flags and a man, presumably Arthur, holds a sign saying: "Arthur says free Palestine"
A black and white drawing of a Napoleonic soldier in greatcoat carrying a bayonet except he has a bulb of garlic for a head.
The nominees for outstanding achievement in story at the DICE Awards: Clair Obscur Expedition 33, Consume Me, despelote, South of Midnight, The Drifter.
Cover art for Citizen Sleeper. A figure in the foreground looks at a towering, ramshackle cyberpunk city.
A yellow toolbox filled with drill bits, knives, and tape measures.
shocked peasant from kindom come deliverance 2
A quote from Pep Guardiola saying, "We tried to finish the game but we could not."
An old fashioned pub with red patterned carpet and twinkling Christmas lights. A pint of stout is in the foreground.
A screenshot of Kylie in the music video for Especially For You, feat. Jason Donovan.
Screenshot of Notes app that says, "PITCH: Bullshit"
A screenshot saying "you were the #1 buyer of Tangy Cheese Doritos in Brighton Western Road Local"
Saruman pouring black powder from a glass conical flask into a large metal bomb in The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers.
Ralph Fiennes in a buttoned shirt shouting, "You're an inanimate fucking object!" in In Bruges.
a scam email from a vanity publisher offering to publish my 'bestseller' in 90 days