About Rob Fahey
Who am I? I was born in Dublin in 1981, which makes me just old enough to be worrying about hitting 30 soon. It also makes me Irish, although I’ve lived around London since I was 19. I’ve lived slap bang in the middle of the city for five years now, and am continuing a passionate love affair with the metropolis in all its varied hues.
What do I do? I write words and do my best to sound intelligent for a living – mostly I’m a videogames journalist who has dabbled in the business side of things for over eight years, founding and subsequently editing the well-respected GamesIndustry.biz site along the way. These days, I’m a freelance journalist, writer and editor, working mostly for British newspaper The Times, business site GamesIndustry.biz and top UK games site Eurogamer.net, but also for other publications including SFX, Neo Magazine and Disposable Media.
Through my work for The Times, GamesIndustry.biz and Eurogamer, I’ve become fairly recognisable as a games commentator, and have recently done TV appearances discussing the industry on BBC One, Sky News, CNN, BBC World and FiveNews, as well as being cited fairly frequently on the BBC News websites and in other UK newspapers.
I’m co-host of the Stage Clear podcast, which goes out in seasons of 15 weekly episodes and generally constitutes about 45 minutes of rude, sarcastic chat about what’s happening in the world of videogames – with an especially critical eye on the media industry that covers them.
In between times, I also do some PR and marketing work, which helps to pay the bills, and study Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). I’d like to be a fiction writer, and have been working on various projects on and off for about two years. I’ll get there in the end, even though every time I take three steps forward I seem to take two steps back, trip over a hidden wire and land painfully on my backside.
