There are a ton of great games journalists out there, but easily the most prolific of us all is GamesBeat’s Dean Takahashi. I’ve seen him at pretty much every event in the industry for the last decade (since I got my internship at OXM in 2011) and I can say with absolute certainty that Dean…
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Original Review)
Over the years I’ve written a number of game reviews – some of which have been better than others. Each one took a big chunk of my life and, as overly sentimental as this sounds, actually mean something to me all these years later. Take, for instance, this Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim review that I…
How to be a successful freelancer
Writing is hard. I’ve been doing it everyday for the last seven years of my life and I still have trouble filling the page with coherent, informative and entertaining thoughts. But the name of the game is perseverance. One day everyone catches the break they deserve as long as they’ve put in the work to…
Tropico 6: A 30-Second Review
If the SimCity franchise ever had a diabolical twin brother, it’d be Tropico. Where SimCity has always been a wholesome sandbox in which to play, Tropico offers collegiate-level political satire and complex engine building. When it works, the game is laugh-out-loud funny and makes you feel like you’ve got an Econ degree… until everything inevitably…
My Favorite Nintendo Switch Games (2019)
Long gone are the days when gamers called the Nintendo Switch a “Zelda machine”. Two years into the console’s lifespan, the Nintendo Switch has a lively and jam-packed assortment of titles to keep you occupied, whether you’re nestled into your sofa, linking up to your TV, or blasting quick gaming sessions on your commute. You now have…
My Favorite PS4 Games
The Sony PlayStation 4 is an incredible console, and possibly even Sony’s greatest achievement to date. It wasn’t hard to top the PS3, a console that saw Sony loose the lead in the gaming space, and while the PS2 remains one of the greatest consoles of all-time, its games are hard to revisit. Should you find…
My Favorite Xbox One Games
The Xbox One will never top the Xbox 360’s giant game library, the console delivered some incredible hits over its seven-year lifespan. I was lucky enough to be covering it from the day it launched, all the way through to the release of the Xbox Series X/S. From solid third-person shooters like Gears 5, to…
@Gamer Magazine Work
@GAMER Magazine shuttered back in 2014 and while it never gained quite the same readership that TechRadar has now, it remains an absolute gem of a publication. (And I’m not just saying that because they were the first publication to offer me a full-time job!) From December 2012 until April 2014 I helped put out…
Freelance Work
Over the years, I’ve freelanced for a half-dozen publications including OXM, GamesRadar, PC Gamer and Mac|Life. Here’s the best of what remains online from those ventures! NEED FOR SPEED: RIVALS REVIEW Need for Speed is what I like to call EA’s most well known “hot-potato” franchise. Every few years it jumps to a new…
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