04.27.07

biographical ramblings

Posted in games, work at 3:01 pm by Rob Fahey

The biography feature of PlayStation boss Ken Kutaragi I wrote for Eurogamer has just gone live. It’s quite huge, but I think it’s pretty interesting - I found out lots of things I didn’t know about him while researching it, and then I put them all in one article so you don’t have to trawl through a million old interviews and write-ups, or chat with the estranged sons of former senior Sony executives, like I did. Which is good, because you probably wouldn’t do all that anyway, so you’d never find out those things.

Researching and writing this sort of feature is the kind of task that journalists with a real passion for a certain subject or sector dream of. Researching and writing it in about 12 hours flat because the guy has just unexpectedly retired, however, is a waking nightmare which has left me a hollow shell of a man. Hurrah.

First commenter to say “tl;dr” gets a slap, too.

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