GAMES MEDIA AWARDS: THE FINALISTS 52 MCV 10/09/10
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Rock Paper Shotgun
Rock, Paper, Shotgunis the world’s leading PC games blog. Or, at least, the world’s leading PC games blog called Rock, Paper, Shotgun, which is nearly as good. Since launching in 2007, it’s grown to the point where getting on for a million readers use it as the marketsquare of all that’s new, radical or controversial in PC gaming. Formed by veterans Kieron Gillen, Alec Meer, Jim Rossignol and John Walker, RPS covers everything in PC games while pushing the frontiers of non-review- writing.
GamesBrief
GamesBriefis a blog about the business of games. From Activision to Zynga, author Nicholas Lovell analyses the companies making waves in the games industry and new platforms like Facebook, iPhone and Unity, that are changing the market. It’s not just about games, either. It covers the changing role of copyright, how financiers get games wrong (and how little the industry understands finance) and provides solid, no-nonsense advice on self-publishing games in the emerging digital world.
Guardian Games Blog
The Guardian Games Blog features prominently on
Guardian.co.ukin conjunction with the well- established Technology blog. Written by a team of veteran contributors that rivals more specialist blogging sites, Guardian Games Blogcontinues to grow and attract new readers beyond the paper’s traditional demographic.
Daily Girl Attack Panic Super HD Remix
Daily Girl Attack Panic Super HD Remixis a games blog by Lauren Wainwright. Offering an insight into the life of a gaming-obsessed writer making her way in the industry, the blog contains discussion of past and present games, press events, trends and culture. Lauren covers gaming from an irreverent, colloquial, often nostalgic angle. With a growing community of followers, DGAPSHDR(yes, really) offers a fresh-faced take on the often cynical world of the games industry.
Ready Up
Ready Upis staffed by industry professionals and passionate amateurs. With daily updates to the blog, review pages and regular coverage of conferences and launches, Ready Up’s large staff work closely together to produce fresh, topical content with a personal slant and with passionate style. With a policy of maintaining roughly equal numbers of female and male staff, Ready Upclaims to offer the broadest range of experience you’ll find in games writing.
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Matthew Handrahan (GamesTM)
Matthew Handrahan started work on GamesTM after a disastrous (his words) stint at the now defunct Highbury Entertainment. His burning ambition to become a film journalist has apparently died away, replaced with his pride in being an integral part of Imagine’s games team and making GamesTM’s features section the best in the business. He points out that GamesTM’s ‘hive- mind’ approach means you won’t knowingly have read any of his work, but: “Trust me, all the good stuff is mine.”
Matthew Castle (NGamer)
Four years of reviewing Wii and DS games has given Matthew the wrists of a champion jar opener and an allergy to virtual pets. Life on NGamer keeps him on his toes – in the last year he has written 20,000 words about Mario Galaxy 2, pretended to be the ghost of Geoffrey Chaucer and stalked the creator of Phoenix Wright. He loves that he gets paid for all this nonsense, and thanks colleagues and readers for putting up with him.
Gillen McAllister (OXM)
In his five years in the industry. Gillen’s notched up a diverse range of achievements, from quizzing film directors over failed video game adaptations to making the JRPG hardcore’s hit list for raising issues with the genre’s trappings. Whether discussing morality questions raised by Red Dead Redemption in online columns or keeping a 60K-strong readership abreast of the latest developments via OXM’s news section, Gillen has maintained a voice of authority and boundless enthusiasm.
Tom Francis (PC Gamer)
Tom Francis is a writer and editor for PC Gamer magazine and its website,
PCGamer.com. He’s written the industry’s nerdiest coverage of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, the mag’s nerdiest feature about a ten megabyte platformer, and the world’s nerdiest game diaries about leading a race of sentient rabbits in Galactic Civilizations 2. He freelances occasionally for Edge, Official Xbox Magazine, PC Format, Official PlayStation Magazineand Xbox World.
Alex Wiltshire (Edge)
Alex Wiltshire is currently editor of Edge’s website, having previously been the magazine’s deputy editor, but contributes to all aspects of the publication. He developed his career as a member of the launch editorial team of design and architecture magazine Iconand as an editor on the Channel 4 website. He has also written about games, design and architecture for magazines including New Statesman, PC Gamer, Official Xbox Magazine, Design Week, Gamesmasterand The Architects’ Journal.
Jon Blyth (Freelance)
Having gone freelance, then mental, Jon Blyth spent a couple of months writing about chainsaws and hedge trimmers for the Mail On Sunday. He currently says “yes” to every commission, on the basis that his current lucky run of buying enough food to remain morbidly overweight could end at any moment.
VG247
VG247is the fast-growing news service for those looking for a quick yet comprehensive read. The site features hard news, exclusive content, breaking stories, informed gossip and public domain information from around the world. Since launching in early 2008, it has achieved a reputation as a leading games news site, employing a team from Europe and the US to provide unparalleled coverage of global gaming developments.
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