User:Fuzzie/UK Resistance

UK Resistance (also written as UK:Resistance, or simply UK:R) is a video game humour website. It was originally founded in 1996 by Jon M and Gary Cutlack as a lighthearted Sega news, reviews and discussion site.

It evolved towards a more generic humour website after the failure of the Sega Saturn and death of the Dreamcast, which left the site more embittered toward the videogame industry - particularly Sony, who the authors felt had ruined gaming by putting graphics quality and consumer brand snobbery above playable content. It has a cult following, particularly amongst videogame professionals and gaming media, and has spawned copy-cat sites such as US Resistance.

It has often been referenced by gaming media; ranging from mentions on Digitiser and in Edge - which the site frequently comments upon - during the beginning months of the site, to recent mentions by The Guardian's games blog , in the Wired gaming blog  (who described it as "the popular taking-on-the-industry slam page"), and in issue 2 of 360, after the first issue was rather negatively reviewed on the site.

The site was summed up in an article in Edge, where it was proclaimed as "Always capturing the critical zeitgeist and never afraid to stick the knife in when necessary."

It is currently run by journalist Gary Cutlack, operating under the pseudonym Cmdr_Zorg. Despite Cutlack's current day job as an editor with the Official Xbox Magazine, the site often disparages Microsoft and the Xbox.

While the site used to have a fairly popular forum, it has recently been disowned due to the offensive behaviour there, with the link to it removed from the main site. There is also a small, rather unserious wiki covering various issues mentioned on the site such as lies Sony have made about the Playstation 3.