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More than just a content writer.
Magazine work:
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The King of Grabs (thekingofgrabs.wordpress.com) |
Practical Visual Nihilism Magazine |
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Featured Articles : PC Zone Supertests
The Supertest has always been a feature
of note in PC Zone - not only for the crazy photo spreads,
but also for the amount of swearing they managed to cram into six
or eight pages. It was pretty
groundbreaking for a computer games magazine...
I've always preferred the printed versions - mostly because the
writer was able to distil the best parts from
the conversation and present a discussion between four or six (or
more) people in a more coherent and
interesting manner, than simply listening to people talk. Not that
current Zone Supertests aren't any
good - they're still great and retain the edge they've always had
- though it's always better to see the team
members making tits of themselves, than not. I've always said: if
it gets a laugh - it's worth it.
Like any feature in a magazine: Supertests have their cost, and
when you look at some of the costumes and
locations we used you can see that some were fairly expensive to
produce. Fair play to Mark Higham and
Tim Ponting for seeing their value and allowing us to spend money
getting drunk and being idiots, and to
Jeremy Wells, Chris Anderson, Dave Woods and others for coming up
with ideas.
In terms of my involvement: from issue 74 (the first Supertest with
a photo spread) to issue 95 (RPG Supertest),
a period of around two years, I wrote and organised a good 70-80%
of them. Any chance to get in front of
a camera! Actually I thought that the Supertests were a top laugh,
and were avidly read, and knew that
making a tit out of myself in front of a camera was the way ahead.
Scroll down to see a selection of classic PC Zone Supertest moments... |
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