With unique expressive flair, a mature tone and an adaptive writing style, Mark has penned considered reviews, conducted fascinating interviews and constructed interesting and objective news stories for multiple publications.
Below is a small sample of his editorial portfolio.
BritishGaming.co.uk
I co-founded BritishGaming.co.uk alongside two friends with the personal intentions of solidifying a place in the games journalism world, establishing a portfolio of work and adapting my writing style. Our success has allowed for review and preview copies, interviews and event coverage.
Feature: Profiles of games delayed into 2010 – “Early 2010 is the new Christmas ‘09″
Feature: History of Ghostbusters games – “Who Ya Gonna Call? The Ghostbusters History”
Feature: Funny piracy history – “Bizarre Bootlegs – The Lighter Side of Piracy”
Feature: Games not released in Europe – “Import Tax: Best Games Never Released in Europe”
Interview with Headstrong games – “The Making Of… The House of the Dead: Overkill”
Interview with Just Add Water – “Digital Britain – Just Add Water’s ‘Gravity Crash’”
Review – Ghostbusters
Review – Retro Game Challenge
Review – Killzone 2
Review – So Blonde
Review – Sonic Unleashed
Preview Feature – Epic Mickey
Preview Feature – The Characters of Epic Mickey
Ready-Up.net
I joined the Ready-Up team in 2009, and have since been promoted to News Manager. Alongside covering events and reviewing games, I also pen personalised blogs and features. I am very proud of joining the team – the position (which was advertised on the Xbox 360 dashboard) received over 700 applications, but apparently my “talent, dedication and professionalism shone through.” Go me, eh?
Feature: Overlord II Preview “Overlord – It’s Good to be Bad”
Article on Remakes and Sequels – “The Cost of Fandom”
Article on Oversaturation of Zombies – “Not Another … of the Dead”
Article on Oversized Sandbox Worlds – The Bigger They Come…
Review – inFamous
Review – Wallace and Gromit Episode 1
Review – Overlord II
Review – Lux-Pain
Resolution
“Resolution is the home of a collective of videogame journalists and critics based in … the UK.” They have a meticulous attention to detail and only publish the best content – so they’re a great place to write for.
Review – WET
Feature: Comedy in Games – No Funny Business
This feature explored how comedy and humour can be implemented into games, and reasons why its so often not. I talked to industry professionals to gain a thorough understanding of the topic. Kieron Gillen at Rock, Paper, Shotgun picked up the piece for the blog post That Joke’s Not Funny Any More?
GamesRadar
GamesRadar is the perfect place to kick back, stop thinking so hard and just write some fun features. They’d probably commission a feature on the “Top 10 Most Scatological Text Adventures” if you pitched it well. Wait, don’t steal that, I might need it one day.
Feature – The Top 7… weirdest music games ever – (Home page image)
Issue 231 Featured Story – The Littlest, Biggest Gift of All
MyInsideGamer
I’ve helped out the staff of MyInsideGamer with Xbox 360 reviews.
Review – Towerbloxx Deluxe
Review – Forza Motorsport 3
Game Mode Magazine
Game Mode International is “Pakistan’s First Ever Monthly Gaming Magazine”. No clips are available as of this time, but its available in Peshawar, Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad and Rawal Pindi… so go buy it!
Review – Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story
Contact
I am looking to expand my portfolio with more publications. I write reviews, attend events and pen features – usually at commercial rates. You’re best off emailing me, I actually check those.
Email: mcbacon (at) gmail (dot) com
Twitter: twitter.com/mcbacon
Friends
You should totally hire me, of course, but here are some people in this business that are totally cool.
Jonathan Cresswell – Phil Sykes – Kirsten Kearny – Mike Mason – Mark Boss – Lewis Denby