Nathan Birch
Nathan Birch focuses on long-running, mainstream video game franchises and their surrounding entertainment, with recent work spanning licensed sports and fighting series, racing titles, survival-horror remakes, and Nintendo-based animated films for Wccftech. He works as a news editor and staff writer on the gaming desk, combining reviews, previews, and daily news across games, entertainment, and online culture.
Licensed Sports and Fighting Series
Birch’s recent work leans heavily on licensed combat sports and wrestling games, treating them as evolving series rather than isolated releases. In his EA Sports UFC 6 review, he frames the game as a more well-rounded entry that still holds back in key areas, signaling a focus on how annualized franchises improve while retaining lingering issues.[anchor] His WWE 2K25 coverage situates the game within a rebuilding phase for the series, comparing it directly with WWE 2K24 and using that contrast to judge whether the newest installment represents real progress.
Across these pieces he sticks to clear assessments of mechanics, modes, and polish, and he is comfortable referencing previous entries to explain why a new release does or does not move the series forward.
Racing Games, Remakes, and Service Coverage
Birch frequently covers high-profile racing and action titles, often tying his reviews to ongoing platform services and broader commercial performance. His Need for Speed Unbound review is referenced in reporting about the game joining a PS Plus Essential lineup, where his earlier verdict is pulled into a service-focused news hook.
He previews LEGO 2K Drive ahead of release and later has that work cited when the game is abruptly delisted and its online servers are scheduled to be shut down, showing that his early impressions remain part of the story when a title’s lifecycle changes.
He has also reviewed the Resident Evil 2 remake, giving it a score of 8.5 out of 10 and having that evaluation mentioned in coverage of the game reaching three million sales in three days, a link that underscores how he connects critical response with commercial outcomes. These pieces show him moving between full reviews and shorter, news-oriented mentions, but consistently grounding commentary in concrete performance, series context, and platform availability.
Film and Game-Adjacent Entertainment
Beyond games, Birch writes about film projects that extend major game brands, handling them with the same franchise-aware approach.
His review of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is cited in coverage of the film’s box office success, where he examines the gap between critical expectations of “art” and the studio goal of visually driven entertainment. In that piece he characterizes the movie as light on deeper thematic ambition but attentive to presentation and crowd-pleasing character beats, and he uses that framing to explain why audiences embrace it even when critics are more skeptical.
This work fits with his broader remit of covering entertainment tied to gaming, reinforcing that his beat includes major animated releases and not only console and PC software.
News Editing, Online Culture, and Cross-Outlet Work
Birch has been covering games, entertainment, and online culture for over a decade and joined Wccftech in 2017, where he has written dozens of game reviews and thousands of news stories. At the masthead he is identified as a News Editor and Staff Writer focused on gaming, a role that combines frontline writing with responsibility for shaping day-to-day coverage.
His professional description notes that he crafts gaming news, reviews, and feature articles and relays stories from PR representatives and online sources to other writers on the team, placing him at the junction between incoming information and the outlet’s published work.
Outside Wccftech he lists bylines at IGN, GameSpy, Cracked, Uproxx, ComicBook, and more, and maintains a personal site that collects recent reviews written for multiple outlets. Earlier work at Cracked includes both articles and layout responsibilities, including selecting images and writing humorous captions, which points to a familiarity with internet-native humor and presentation that informs his coverage of online culture.
Taken together, this history shows a writer who treats gaming and its adjacent media as part of a wider entertainment ecosystem, and who brings long-running experience, cross-outlet perspective, and editorial responsibility to a beat centered on games and their surrounding culture.
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