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 ''

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'' and '' CVG'' before contributing a few reviews to ''

Mean Machines ''Mean Machines'' was a multi-format video game journalism, video game magazine published between 1990 and 1992 in the United Kingdom. History In the late 1980s ''Computer and Video Games'' (''CVG'') was largely covering the outgoing generatio ...

'' ('' Wrestle War'' in issue 9 was the first). Like

Julian Rignall Julian "Jaz" Rignall (born 6 March 1965, London, England) is a writer and editor. He has also produced content for corporate websites such as GamePro Media, publisher of ''GamePro'' magazine and ''GamePro.com'', marketing collateral and advert ...

and Richard Leadbetter, he tended to appear in both

EMAP Ascential (formerly EMAP) was a British-headquartered global company, specialising in events, intelligence and advisory services for the marketing and financial technology industries. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange until it was ac ...

magazines at the same time. He went on to launch ''

MegaTech ''MegaTech'' (sometimes styled with the katakana メガテケ) was a publication from EMAP aimed specifically at the Sega Mega Drive gaming market. The magazine was started in 1991. The launch editorial consisted of a small team including Pa ...

'' — the first UK

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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'' was a magazine that focused on the Sega Mega Drive video game console, but would also cover the Mega-CD and 32X. Launched by Maverick Magazines around the same time as Future's ''MEGA'' in August 1992, with issue ...

''. 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 Limited (formerly Domark Limited) was a British video game publisher based in Wimbledon, London. Among its franchises were '' Championship Manager'', '' Deus Ex'', ''Hitman'', '' Thief'' and ''Tomb Raider''. Domark was founded ...

from 1998 to 2000.https://uk.linkedin.com/in/paul-glancey-75a437142 He has worked as a Senior Producer at Electronic Arts'

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studio in Guildford, UK. Criterion has developed the best-selling '' ''Burnout'''' series and 'gun porn' shooter ''

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''. After that, Paul worked at BlackRock Studio followed by a period as Game Design Manager at

Ubisoft Reflections Ubisoft Reflections Limited (formerly Reflections and later Reflections Interactive Limited) is a British video game developer and a studio of Ubisoft based in Newcastle upon Tyne. Founded in 1984 by Martin Edmondson and Nicholas Chamberlain, th ...

. He was a Senior Designer/Producer at Criterion. In September 2021 Glancey became a Design Manager at Double Eleven Limited.

References

External links

Interview with Paul Glancey at the ''Mean Machines'' Archive
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