In my previous end-of-year blog post, I joked that 2025 would be year of the vampire, as I would be organising events for Dracula Returns to Derby. Little did I realise how this project was going to develop. I continued my technology journalism by writing for ITPro and Live Science, as well as Computer Weekly,…
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2024 was a busy year for me and my family. I continued writing for Computer Weekly and IT Pro, but I also started writing for Live Science about the latest advances in technology. I also wrote an eight-page essay for Secret Passages about the creation of Vampire: The Masquerade. This magazine recently achieved twice its…
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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.
2022 was a return to normal, or as normal as we get, for us…
A review of my year and of things to come.
Peter Ray Allison looks back on 2020 and tries to find some good…
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 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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2017 was a busy year for me, due in part to Caelia returning to work and leaving me holding the baby. I cannot complain too much though, as he is incredibly laid back, is already talking and loves playing with lightsabers. Despite juggling child-care and kiddies (not literally), I continued writing for the BBC. A…
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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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