{{Short description|British video game website}}
'''UK Resistance''' (also written as '''UK:Resistance''', or simply '''UK:R''') was a video games website founded in 1996 by Gary Cutlack and Jon M (under the pseudonyms Commander Zorg and Captain Jax). Originally a Sega news and reviews fansite, UK Resistance expanded its coverage across all formats, and developed a style depending more on satirical updates rather than its original UK news and reviews content. The site officially closed on March 29, 2011<ref>.{{cite web |url=http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/2011/03/closedown-march-29th-2011/ |title=CLOSEDOWN, MARCH 29th 2011 |author=UK:Resistance |date=2011-03-29 |accessdate=2011-03-29 |publisher=Gary Cutlack}}</ref>
==Reception== The website is frequently referenced by games industry media, and its exposure led to a writer's position at ''Sega Saturn Magazine'' for Gary Cutlack.<ref>{{cite journal| title=Rings of Saturn| journal=Retro Gamer| author=Damien McFerran | date=Christmas 2007| issue=45| pages=86–91}}</ref> The website has been described by ''Edge'' as the place where "Europe's Sega cognoscenti gathered to discuss the burning issues of the day",<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Requiem for a Dream: The Life and Death of Dreamcast|magazine=Edge|author=Edge staff|date=Christmas 2001|issue=105|pages=49–54}}</ref> and by ''Wired'' gaming blog as "the popular taking-on-the-industry slam page".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://blog.wired.com/games/2006/03/uk_resistance_u.html|title=UK Resistance, US Resistance, Sega Ads |author=Chris Kohler |date=2006-03-09 |accessdate=2007-02-03 |magazine=Wired}}</ref> The site was often linked to from other gaming blogs such as Kotaku and Joystiq.
==Campaigns== Notable updates from the website include the ''Blue Sky in Games'' campaign, a campaign to reintroduce light hearted environments and settings into video games, as opposed to the prevalence of "realistic" gang violence games such as Saints Row.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Offline Status Tool Built for Riot Games |url=https://deceive.gg/ |access-date=2026-03-13 |language=en}}</ref> As UK Resistance themselves put it, "We want to play in a HAPPY PRETEND LAND, not a shit version of an American slum full of mixed-race gangsters wearing licensed sportswear!". The campaign was picked up by websites such as ''Eurogamer'', who gave it their full backing,<ref>{{cite web|title=Bring blue skies back to games!|url=http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=61700|author=Ellie Gibson|date=2005-11-15|website=Eurogamer|accessdate=2007-02-03}}</ref> and ''PC Zone'', who called the campaign "a just cause... that we heartily endorse".<ref>{{cite magazine|title = Crime Life: Gang Wars review|url=http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=132231|author=PC Zone staff|date=2006-01-11|magazine=PC Zone|accessdate=2007-02-03}}</ref>
==Acquisition== UK Resistance was acquired by ''Shiny Media'' in June 2007,<ref>{{cite web|title=Shiny welcomes Gary Cutlack of UK Resistance fame| url=http://www.shinymedia.com/2007/06/shiny-welcomes-.html| author=Ashley Norris, Gary Cutlack| publisher=Shiny Media| date=2007-06-29| accessdate=2007-12-19}}</ref> before being returned to the sole ownership of Cutlack in June 2008 in lieu of money owed to him by Shiny.<ref>{{cite web|title=Shiny media has gone bust| url=http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/2009/07/shiny-media-has-gone-bust/| author=UK:Resistance| publisher=Gary Cutlack| date=2009-07-22| accessdate=2009-07-26}}</ref> In October 2007, UK Resistance was voted Best Non-Commercial Website or Blog at the inaugural Games Media Awards held at the Soho Revue Bar in London. Cutlack was also nominated for Best Writer In Specialist Media at the same event.<ref>{{cite magazine| title=Games Media Awards finalists revealed| url=http://www.mcvuk.com/news/28177/Games-Media-Awards-finalists-revealed| author=MCV Staff| magazine=MCV| date=2007-08-31| accessdate=2007-12-19| url-status=dead| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070913162151/http://www.mcvuk.com/news/28177/Games-Media-Awards-finalists-revealed| archivedate=2007-09-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=2007 Games Media Awards results |url=http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=29519 |author=GamesIndustry.biz Staff |publisher=GamesIndustry.biz |date=2007-10-12 |accessdate=2007-12-19}}</ref>
==See also== * Games Domain * Jay Is Games
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.ukresistance.co.uk UK Resistance Website] *[https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/chicken-road-game/helmkbbjmckkjmnfojlhgdnnnkobmcbp Chicken Road Game]
Category:Video game news websites Category:British entertainment websites Category:Internet properties established in 1996 Category:Video gaming in the United Kingdom Category:1996 establishments in the United Kingdom