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Gameplanet is New Zealand’s number-one destination for gamers and arguably the country’s premier gaming media outlet. My involvement with Gameplanet began with production/presenting duties on an episode of the Telefrag video series before extending to a couple of editorial features and a preview of Mass Effect 3 (that was syndicated by New Zealand’s number-one online news outlet, Stuff).

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From late 2008 until May 2011, I was fortunate enough to hold the editorial role at Game Console, for a time New Zealand’s only dedicated gaming magazine. The brand has been around in a number of forms for some years now, firstly as a free A4-sized magazine distributed for free at video-rental stores nationwide. At the time I came on-board with publisher Action Media (later renamed TechDay), Game Console was simply a supplement/section of popular consumer-technology magazine NetGuide. Eventually we were able to relaunch Game Console in the unusual format of a 64-page, A5 (small, reference-sized) magazine. It was an incredible experience, and in many ways it was a dream job, but it presented its own set of serious challenges. I’m proud of what myself and a small team of contributors achieved with Game Console, particularly given the lack of resources and the infrequent editorial opportunities. Unfortunately, though, one month shy of the one-year anniversary of Game Console’s relaunch as a standalone publication, TechDay decided to cease the printed publication. Below is a sample of my work on both the magazine and its associated website over that period. If you’re having trouble reading the magazine articles in your browser, you can right click the links and “save link as” to your desktop to view them in a more readable size.

Click here to read a digital version of the April 2011 issue in its entirety.

Editorials

Features and interviews

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Reviews and previews

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News

From the web

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Mass Effect 3 producer interview

For a brief while, I contributed to popular New Zealand gaming magazine Gamefreaks during parts of 2007 and 2008. Funnily enough, this was my first foray into gaming journalism; I’d been writing about one passion for a few years already by this stage, but for whatever reason it simply hadn’t occurred to me that I could write about my life-long favourite hobby. Given my background, they trusted me enough to take a punt on me. I loved writing for Gamefreaks, and it cemented video-game journalism as my passion. Fairly early on I was offered the opportunity to fly to Sydney to meet Ubisoft’s Patrice Desiliets at a preview event for Assassin’s Creed, the flexibility of my full-time job at TVNZ captioning working to my favour. While I lived in Melbourne, Australia for a brief three months, I also covered the Game On! travelling video-game museum for Gamefreaks! I was in talks with the editor about contributing once again upon my return to New Zealand, but it wasn’t long before the unmissable opportunity to edit the competition surfaced. Sadly, that was the end of my relationship with Gamefreaks other than bumping into the gang at media events. Like Game Console, it’s now online only, meaning there are currently no locally produced gaming magazines published in New Zealand.

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NZHerald.co.nz is the website for New Zealand’s most-read daily newspaper.

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Stuff.co.nz is New Zealand’s most visited news website. Through syndication arrangements with Gameplanet and PC World NZ, some of my work has occasionally featured here.