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Once I transitioned from game journalism to communications in 2012, all of my endeavors took place behind the scenes. Working with top-level press from Entertainment Weekly and The Wall Street Journal to Venture Beat, PC Gamer, IGN, Edge, Polygon and others, I've pitched and secured magazine covers, company documentaries, and profile-raising industry feature stories. My goal is to work hand-in-hand with media to create real stories, genuine engagement and memorable content.
Before working in PR, I wrote stories about games and the people who make them. I was the first managing editor for Next Generation Magazine and one of the founding editor at IGN. I've launched, founded, and co-founded several publications, broken major game news stories, secured dozens of exclusives, appeared on TV, and reviewed games with honesty and compassion.
During a freelance transition period, I consulted on dozens of titles for AAA publishers including EA, Ubisoft, Warner Bros., LucasArts, Take-Two, Sega, and more. In an earlier life, I wrote and published poetry and short stories.
As a Communications and PR professional, I've launched the PR components of Rocket League, ARK: Survival Evolved, Furi, Endless Legend, Kingston's HyperX headsets, Furi, and more. During its four-year peak, I directed all of the PR campaigns to expand and attract a broader audience to Warframe, the genre-leading free-to-play looter shooter from Digital Extremes.
When I'm not working, I spend time adoring my wife and children, playing beach volleyball, surfing, backpacking, playing games, reading, cooking and gardening.
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Canadian developer and publisher Digital Extremes is proud and excited to announce today it’s the first-time recipient of “Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Culture” award.
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We're feeling lucky today, Tenno. Warframe is seven years strong today, and we want to share our birthday in the most generous way we know how - by giving out free gifts and by calling on you to help create the next Warframe. Free Anniversary Dex Armor Set + To celebrate...
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Every December is an incredibly busy time for Digital Extremes and Warframe players. This year is no exception. At The Game Awards last night, Digital Extremes announced Rising Tide, a content update that lays the blueprint to create the powerful Railjack battleship, is live now...
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Play Confront Your Immortal Nemesis in Warframe's The Old Blood Update Video As a former game journalist, working on Warframe has been an eye-opening experience into the development of a living game. Warframe is in constant motion. This six-year-old games-as-a-service title cycles through constant expansion, re-tooling, balances, re-balances, engine overhauls, complete teardowns, you name it.
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Play Warframe's "Nightwave" Update Launches Today on PS4 Video "To all of you driftin' out there in the black, mark the frequency. The time has come to act together. To open our eyes and gaze with utmost clarity past the present and into a future we create. Shoulder-to-shoulder."
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Whether you're new to Warframe or a grizzled veteran, the upcoming expansion, Fortuna, has probably crossed your Twitter feed once or twice - something-something Venus, blah-blah hoverboards...giant mechanical spiders. Yes, that's us! We introduced the new open-world...
Less than seven blocks from Digital Extremes' London, Ontario studio resides one of the most important places for at-risk youth and vulnerable adults in the region. Anago, a registered charity...
For the ninth year in a row, Digital Extremes was honored by the Mediacorp Canada Inc. as one of the top 100 best Canadian companies to work for (2019). That's right, you should come work for us!
The fourth annual TennoCon set viewership records and highlighted 's explosive growth last weekend when more than 2 million combined...
Although it's only February, rest assured we're making plans for this year's TennoCon! We're ecstatic to announce ticket tier details our fourth annual Warframe® convention, and to announce our official partnership with the Canadian Mental Health Association, Middlesex Branch (CMHA Middlesex) of London, Ontario.
The year 2018 is a mighty important one for Digital Extremes. We celebrated 's fifth anniversary on March 14. Now, we're fast approaching the 25th anniversary of Digital Extremes this December. In light of this incredible alignment of events, we genuflect today on the first of many noteworthy events that helped made Digital Extremes what it is today!
At 9:15 am Thursday morning, Donald Mustard, the creative director at Chair Studios, sits next to me on a couch in a hotel in San Francisco. He unfurls a laundry list of the features from Infinity Blade II’s new multiplayer component, but it becomes clear after a few minutes he is...
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The Monetization Game: A panel discussion with Neil Young, CEO, ngMoco; Kai Huang, Founder, Guitar Hero; and Peter Moore...
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