Game People uniquely offers a whole range of varying opinions on the latest videogames. Each writer has their niche perspective and, like you, come from all walks and ages of life.

We are the antitheses of mass media. We are social, mini, friendly and failing. By side-stepping the need to be perfect, comprehensive and score-driven we hope to offer something more personal, intimate and interesting.

We are different to other sites:

• Less clicking: We value your experience over our wallet. Although most sites like us spread their content over as many pages as possible to maximise your clicks and their revenue, we put all the review text and screenshots on one page.
• No scores: We write reviews from various perspectives, and therefore don't offer a uniform score. What is a 7 anyway?
• Second opinions: We write multiple reviews about each game, from our different perspectives. These are linked from the grey box, top-right.
• Connecting players to games: We don't talk so much about good or bad games, rather about which types of people would enjoy which types of games. Think of us as the BBFC or ESRB in reverse - rather than keeping you from the bad games, we want to connect you to the good ones.
• Writer focused: We arrange our content in each writer's columns. This is so you can read all their reviews in one place.
• Specialist and Consumer: PR speak for the casual and hardcore gamers. Because we have writers from all walks of life we unusually encompass both camps.

Our artisan reviewers walk their own path, but are united by a desire to fit some games in amongst busy lives -- parents, young adults, mid-lifers, teenagers, retirees and artists. Read a few and you'll soon find someone a bit like you.

As well as the more common handwritten reviews, we also like to engage with more unusual ways of reviewing games. You will find us using songs, origami, photography, animation and even teletext to capture their feelings about a game.

We may be small, but we are heard a long way away. Game People writers have featured (stared?) on BBC TV and Radio, Arts Festivals, mainstream print like Official Playstation Magazine, write online for people like Wired, IGN and Game Pro. Then finally there's Game People Calling on The Escapist.

Encountering a community like this can mean it’s hard to know where to start. The front page will give you a taste of what’s fresh, but a lot of people find that browsing the different writers is a good place to start. If you are still stuck there is more help on how to get started.

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