Beep! Mega Drive magazine
For a brief period in the early 90s, Beep! Mega Drive was home to some of the best magazine cover art you’re likely to come across. A technicolour fever dream of jazz-era influences and abstraction.
The Al Nilsen interview. Marketing Sega in 90s…
Al Nilsen joined Sega of America in 1989 and was responsible for some of the 16bit era's most memorable campaigns including Sonic 2sday and the iconic Genesis does… what Nintendon’t.
Forgotten Worlds #1. Ask me anything…
Exhaustion, panic and creeping dread - ask me anything about publishing a magazine about old video game magazines.
The final days of the Sega Dreamcast
Five years after Sega pulled the plug on its hardware division, the Dreamcast has found itself in a weird purgatory. Neither alive, nor dead; the system has managed to sustain itself with a drip feed of import titles.
The Richard Monteiro - Paragon Publishing - interview
Richard Monteiro started his career as a staff writer with Amstrad Action, eventually went freelance, and ultimately co-founded Paragon Publishing - which was responsible for magazines like Sega Pro, Play, Games (™) and a bunch of others.
Raze magazine
I always liked Raze and its multi-format approach. But I was also fascinated by the chaos within the magazine. It felt like a mish-mash of several different publications thrown together, all competing with each other. I finally understand why…