THE FINALISTS GMAs in association with Award sponsored by RISING STAR


HOLLIE BENNETT Destructoid


Hollie currently works as the EU community manager for Destructoid.comafter she joined the site back in 2006 as a community member. Despite her biggest focus


JOHNNY CHIODINI GameSpot UK


Johnny started his career interning on ITN’s then-fledgling gaming show Game On, and refused to leave. Over the next few years he helped the format take shape, while also


SEB FORD GameSpot UK


After two years soaking up all that the games industry had to offer as a video producer at VideoGamer.com, Seb met with the guys at GameSpot UK, and after a few intimidating


MARTIN GASTON VideoGamer.com


Martin’s writing is more polished than a rich mahogany table after being given the once over by a cleaner with OCD. And while he is occasionally accused of being


ANDRIEN GBINIGIE XboxGameZone


Andrien started gaming at the tender age of six, and has never looked back since. A veteran of first and third-person shooters, he also likes to play RPGs, stealth action


DAN WEBB Xbox360Achievements.org


After leaving a potential career in law behind, Dan fell head first into the games industry, taking charge at what is now the biggest single- platform website on the internet,


JAMIN SMITH VideoGamer.com


Jamin claims to be ‘that guy who rocks up to preview events wearing a pair of white headphones’. It’s his ‘thing’ apparently, along with being


MATT LEES Official Xbox 360 Magazine


Matt got his first job in the games industry working as a market research analyst, before moving across to Frank PR to work on the Activision European account for two years.


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being on the promotion and building of the identity of the EU community she also hosts BritToid, Destructoid’sEurope-focused gaming podcast, writes for the site and directs the team at events. She also works as a full-time midwife in a big London hospital.


learning to edit video, finishing an English Literature degree and having a fairly protracted conversation about bestiality with Danny Wallace (on camera). In March 2011 he joined GameSpot UKas video producer and works on its Appetite for Distraction show.


interviews landed the video producer role there.


He now works on the successful franchise Start/Select, as well as some of the newer shows from the GameSpotstable including the mobile gaming focused Appetite for Distraction.


sarcastic he really does his best to get on with everyone in the industry. This year he was made previews editor at VideoGamer.com, and he also recently found out that all the other Games Media Awards candidates have made disparaging remarks about your mother.


games, racers, platformers and puzzle games. He takes great pride in getting achievements on Xbox Live. Andrien can mostly be found posting news, previews, reviews and more to XboxGameZone, battling with WordPress and tweeting.


Xbox 360 Achievements. With no experience in the games industry whatsoever, Dan learnt the industry inside out from scratch. He also helped spearhead X360A into the position of one of the biggest video gaming websites on the internet.


the ‘JRPG guy’, crafting hilarious puns, and defending poor Alan Wake from the industry’s army of haters, of course. He says he doubts that’s why he finds himself alongside the other talented people in this category, however.


Eventually he got fed up of organising events and having to buy drinks for other people, and sneakily burrowed under the fence into games journalism.


In his spare time he enjoys drinking too much tea and being an idiot on the internet.


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