THE FINALISTS GMAs in association with SPECIALIST WRITER PRINT
JON BLYTH Official Xbox 360 Magazine
After being freelance for a couple of years, Jon Blyth was forced to admit that he’s a retarded incompetent who can’t survive without a robot putting money into his bank every month. (He’s written the games column in Vicefor three years, and he hasn’t been paid for that since 2009.) At 37 years old, he’s currently a staff writer at Official Xbox Magazine. By the time he’s 40 he hopes to get a paper round.
MATTHEW CASTLE NGamer
The last award Matthew won was for ‘politest scout’ at summer camp ‘98. Thirteen years later he remains just as polite, though his knot-tying isn’t what it used to be. When he isn’t writing for NGamer (well worth a vote in the ‘Best Games Magazine’ category, he claims), he writes short words for GamesMaster, rude words for Xbox Worldand words he doesn’t really understand for Edge. Winning would make him very happy, if only to get his mum off his back about getting a ‘real job’.
CHRISTIAN DONLAN Freelance
Christian Donlan was born in Los Angeles, and writes about video games for magazines and websites. A regular contributor to Edgeand Eurogamer, he is also the co-creator of the forthcoming animation series, Everybody Loves a Moose.
STEVE HOGARTY Official Nintendo Magazine
Steve has been in the industry for six years, the first five of which were spent on PC Zone magazine. He started as a staff writer there at the age of foetus, before a sort of upwards job-vacuum hauled him into the position of editor. Despite this, PC Zonewent on to win the Games Media Legend award at last year’s GMAs. He had a brief stint as the UK editor-in-chief of GameReactor before returning to Future as deputy editor of the Official Nintendo Magazine, where he fills his days thinking of polite alternatives to crudeness, like ‘darker than a badger’s knapsack’.
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CHRIS SCULLION Official Nintendo Magazine
A Nintendo fan since the age of three, Chris’ love for gaming is matched only by his love for Irn Bru and Celtic Football Club. Now well into his fifth year at ONM, Chris is the longest- serving member of the mag’s editorial team. In that time he’s managed to amass a strong following of dedicated readers who eagerly await his every review, then ultimately call him biased and corrupt if it’s over 90 per cent. He is also the Future London games department’s token Scot, a role he accepts with a surprising degree of gusto.
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GWYNNE DIXON Total Video Games
Thanks to a ‘scare-easy attitude’ and the slow advancement of genetic modification, Gwynne’s initial dreams of becoming a fighter-pilot and/or Thundercat proved unattainable. And so, at the angsty age of 14, he started combining his love of video games and writing to build a games journalism career. He is now the deputy editor at TVG, having started there in 2006.
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JANE DOUGLAS GameSpot UK
Jane Douglas was appointed GameSpot UK section editor in May 2010 on the strength of never having asked which section. She has been knee-deep in news, previews, reviews and video scripts ever since and occasionally neck- deep in industry events coverage. She joined team GameSpotafter a spell as technology editor for MSN UK, partly spent moonlighting at Inside Xbox.
KEZA MACDONALD IGN
Since arriving on the scene as a 16 year-old staff writer at GamesTM in 2005, Keza quickly established herself as one of the brightest young video game journalists in Britain. After a successful freelance career brought stints at Eurogamer, Edgeand The Observer, IGN UKrecently hired her as its latest games editor. She lives in London, and dreams of owning cats.
GILLEN MCALLISTER Gamereactor
Even while hurtling towards the start of his seventh year in the industry, Gillen’s still enthusiastically spreading the word of gaming’s finest to the world in his own unique style – now taking the fight across Europe and beyond as Gamereactor’sUK editor- in-chief and GRTVhost. He’s looked at gaming’s doomed romances, wrote a guide to gaming
etiquette and quizzed the industry’s best on what makes them tick.
WESLEY YIN-POOLE Eurogamer
Wesley Yin-Poole’s journalism career began at the Mail on Sunday, where he hacked phones and handed police brown envelopes. After graduating he worked for United Business Media on trade magazines including Cabinet Maker. In 2007 he joined
VideoGamer.comas deputy editor, and managed to convince a lady at Argos to sell him Halo 3before its official street date. In 2010 he joined Eurogamer.
MARK WALTON GameSpot UK
Since joining in 2009 as a production assistant, Mark has gone from strength to strength at GameSpot UK. He has covered events such as Gamescom, appeared regularly on video show Start/Select, and taken over hosting and producing duties on the GameSpot UK Podcast along with presenting mobile gaming show Appetite for Distraction. He has also written high- profile reviews for British indie games.
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