About
That's me on the left with a Cosplayer from the 2008 Tokyo Game Show.
I’m a technology/gaming/features writer with The Press newspaper in New Zealand and write for both the newspaper’s weekly hardcopy technology tabloid, The Box, and for Fairfax New Zealand’s nationwide website, stuff.co.nz, where I also have a popular gaming blog, Gamejunkie.
When I started my journalism career almost 20 years ago I always had an interest in technology and gaming but never imagined that I’d be writing tech stories for a living years later. After cutting my teeth on sports stories, local council reporting and covering district and High Court trials, I started doing part-time game reviews for the newspaper’s weekly consumer technology page.
Fast forward to 2011, and I’ve been writing about video games for about eight or nine years and as have had articles appear in Game Console magazine, New Zealand PC World, The Sydney Morning Herald, Gamefreaks magazine, and website Gameplanet (I also reported on E3 2009 as part of the Gameplanet team).
I’ve attended E3 three times (2005, 2009, 2010), the Tokyo Game Show once (2008) and interviewed such people as Joseph Tung, from Bungie, Bruce Shelley from Ensemble Studios, two guys from Sony Santa Monica, a guy from the Creative Assembly and Peter Molyneux, from Lionhead, twice. I feel blessed to be writing about something that I love as part of my job.
Another interesting fact is that I remember when I used to load games on my ZX Spectrum computer using a tape recorder! Yes, I’m that old but I’m not really as old as you think.
I also haven’t restricted myself just to print. Every Tuesday I do a video game segment on KiwiFM with radio announcer, Glenn “Wammo” Williams where we discuss all aspects of video games and game-related hardware. I’d like to think I was one of New Zealand’s most respected video game writers. In my spare time I like to go walking in the rain, drinking pina coladas … oh, wait, never mind.
