Paul Glancey is a video game producer and former journalist in the United Kingdom. He made his first steps into the videogame industry as a writer with Zzap!64

Zzap!64

Zzap!64 was a computer games magazine covering games on the Commodore International series of computers, especially the Commodore 64 . It was published in the UK by Newsfield Publications Ltd and later by Europress Impact....

and CVG

Computer and Video Games (magazine)

Computer and Video Games is a video game magazine and website published in the United Kingdom.- History :...

before contributing a few reviews to Mean Machines

Mean Machines

Mean Machines was a market-leading multi-format gaming magazine released between 1990 and 1992 in the United Kingdom. Its style was popular with gamers of the time for its irreverent humor, anarchic editorial tone and style, and its sometimes outrageously outspoken reviews.- Origins :In the late...

(Wrestle War

Wrestle War (video game)

For the WCW pay-per-view, see WrestleWarWrestle War is the name of a video game which was released in the arcades in 1989, and for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis console in 1991 in Japan, Australia, and Europe only...

in issue 9 was the first). Like Julian Rignall

Julian Rignall

Julian "Muppet" Rignall is a longterm publishing veteran with experience launching and managing numerous video game magazines and websites...

 and Richard Leadbetter, he tended to appear in both EMAP

EMAP

Emap Limited is a British media company, specialising in the production of business-to-business magazines, and the organisation of business events and conferences...

 magazines at the same time.

He went on to launch MegaTech

MegaTech

MegaTech was a publication from EMAP aimed specifically at the Sega Mega Drive gaming market. The launch editorial consisted of a small team including Paul Glancey and Mark Patterson ....

- the first UK Mega Drive only magazine. This was an impressive publication, which, at its peak, had a monthly sale of over 40,000 copies. Ultimately, its publisher, EMAP Images, sold the magazine to Maverick Magazines, the publisher of a competing magazine called Mega Drive Advanced Gaming

Mega Drive Advanced Gaming

Mega Drive Advanced Gaming was, as the name suggested, a magazine that focused on the Sega Mega Drive video game console, but would also cover the Mega CD and 32X...

. Shortly after MegaTech was bought, Maverick closed it down.

After ten years in videogames journalism Paul moved into the business itself by becoming the Senior Game Evaluator at publisher Eidos Interactive

Eidos Interactive

Eidos Interactive Ltd. is a British video game publisher and is a label of Square Enix Europe. As an independent company Eidos plc was headquartered in the Wimbledon Bridge House in Wimbledon, London Borough of Merton....

 from 1998 to 2000.

He has worked as a Senior Producer at Electronic Arts' Criterion

Criterion Games

Criterion Games is a Guildford, England based British video game developer. It is best known for its work on the award-winning, multi-platform Burnout series, the PS2, Gamecube and Xbox first-person shooter Black.Criterion Software Ltd was created in 1993 to commercialise 3D...

 studio in Guildford, UK. Criterion has developed the best-selling Burnout

Burnout

Burnout or burn-out may refer to:*Burnout , a psychological term for a syndrome characterized by long-term exhaustion and diminished interest, especially in one's career*Burnout , when a vehicle's tires are spun so they smoke...

series and 'gun porn' shooter Black

Black (video game)

Black is a first-person shooter video game, developed by Criterion Games and published by EA. It was released on February 24, 2006 for the Xbox and PlayStation 2 video game consoles...

. After that, Paul worked at BlackRock Studio. He is now Game Design Manager at Ubisoft Reflections.

External links

• Interview with Paul Glancey at the Mean Machines Archive