Tag: gaming

2023 in review: London calling to the faraway towns

The past twelve months witnessed a lot of firsts for me, including my first peer-reviewed essay published in an academic journal and writing for the UK Games Expo.

2019: Ups, downs and in between

This was the year I celebrated my fifth anniversary as a full-time writer and journalist.  On the day itself – 20th August – I was a guest of Adam Rosser on his Game On show for BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss Cyberpunk 2020, including the forthcoming video game adaptation.  Pay attention – Cyberpunk will…
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2018: Branching out and all that

2018 has been another great year for me, at least compared with Theresa May’s.  I started the year writing for a new client (ITPro), as well as becoming a full member of the National Union of Journalists. I continued to write for the BBC and Computer Weekly, and started appearing on radio.  In January, my…
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Peter Ray Allison on the TV. Kind of…

Last month at EGX, the largest video games expo in the UK, I filmed my first video podcast for Geek Pride with website founder Matt Geary. During the forty-minute podcast, Matt and I chatted about some of the awesome games that had caught our eyes and retro games that we would like brought back, as…
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2012: The Apocalypse and All That

The past year, despite the apocalyptic prophecies, has overall been a positive one.  The highlight of my year would have to be my comic-fantasy short-story The Sound of Latex being published in the Fox Spirit anthology “Tales of the Nun and Dragon”.  My story has been well received, with reviewers asking for more tales of…
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