Darren Wells

The short version? I’m a writer. The slightly longer version? I’ve been in the magazine and publishing industry since the early 2000s, with a focus on writing reviews and analysis on PC and console video games — from extended feature articles and early look previews, to editorial opinion columns, developer interviews and everything in between. Today, gaming is still my jam, but it’s part of a range that includes writing across gaming, entertainment, movies and TV shows, lifestyle, and food. Throw in experience with sub-editing and proof-reading, and non-industry work in fiction writing and digital portraiture (still learning that one), and you’ve got Darren Wells: writer, gamer, reader, hopeful author, and several further et ceteras.

Photo credit: Katherine Cordwell

Photo credit: Katherine Cordwell

 
 
 
 

Writing background

• Staff writer/deputy editor, PC PowerPlay (nextmedia)
• Deputy editor, HYPER Magazine (nextmedia)
• Editor, Official Nintendo Magazine Australia (Future Publishing Australia)
• Editor, Official Xbox Magazine Australia & New Zealand (Future Publishing Australia)
• Games columnist, T3 Australia (Future Publishing Australia)
• Contributor, GamesRadar and CVG (Future Publishing Australia)
• Also appeared in: IGN Australia (Ziff Davis); Kotaku AU, Lifehacker, Gizmodo (Allure Media); Stellar Magazine (News Corp)

Media appearances

ABC News 24 - November 2012