Ben Maxwell
Ben’s first experience of gaming was at three years old, sat on his dad’s lap playing Revs on a BBC Micro. He went on to write for a wide range of outlets, including PC Gamer, GamesMaster, and Games Radar (not on his dad’s lap), and was a staff writer on Edge magazine for seven years. More recently he put in a stint as editor of PCGamesN before being promoted into a publishing director role at Network N Media. He went freelance in 2026 and loves racing and horror games, Rainbow Six Siege, and anything indie, weird, and wonderful.
Phil Iwaniuk
Award-winning writer and journalist Phil made his start in print media, and has subsequently spent the last 15 years un-learning the compulsion to add a pun to every line of copy. He’s now a correspondent at BBC Top Gear and creative strategist, with bylines in The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Eurogamer, IGN, PC Gamer, Rock Paper Shotgun, TechRadar, Tom’s Guide and Edge, among many others
Nic Reuben
Nic Reuben is secretly several Skaven in a trench coat that have somehow made a career in freelance writing. A former staff writer for Rock Paper Shotgun, you can also find his work in Edge, The Guardian, PC Gamer, and more. He loves weird fiction, onion bhajis, RPGs, immersive sims, and strategy games that tell emergent stories.
Grace Dean
Grace’s love of both games and writing has been strong since the ’90s. Studying journalism at university and then running a gaming YouTube channel before making short-form content for television, she went freelance in 2021 and has been writing about games while finding a beautiful balance between her busy work and family life. Grace is a glutton for genres, loving FPS, adventure, sim, RPGs, battle royale, and more.
Grace Benfell
Grace is a freelance writer at large and has written for some websites and publications you’ve heard of and others you haven’t. She is equally drawn to the grime and terror of Silent Hill and the romantic granduer of Final Fantasy. In her spare time, she writes horror fiction about bad Mormons and troubled women.
Diego Arguello
Diego Nicolás Argüello is a freelance journalist and critic from Argentina. Video games helped him to learn English, so now he covers them for places like The New York Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, and more.
Niv M.Sultan
Niv M. Sultan is a writer whose work has appeared in Slant Magazine, the LA Review of Books, Paste, The Drift, Public Books, Unwinnable, and elsewhere.
Ashley Schofield
Ashley Schofield is a freelance journalist and critic, and the author of VA-11 Hall-A: Design Works for Lost In Cult. You can read her words in Unwinnable, VGC, Polygon, Rock Paper Shotgun, EDGE, GamesRadar+, Into the Spine and many more publications.
Reid McCarter
Reid McCarter is a writer and editor whose work has appeared at outlets like Wired, Kotaku, The AV Club, GQ, Playboy, The Washington Post, Paste, and VICE.
Paul Younger
Paul has been working in the industry since 1994 and founded sites such as IncGamers and PC Invasion. His work has appeared on both those sites and also publications such as NetworkN, The Scotsman, The Times, The Herald, and more.