About Rob Fahey
Who am I? I was born in Dublin in 1981, which makes me insufficiently old to be worrying too much about 30 just yet. 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 two years now, and am continuing a passionate love affair with the city despite being tempted by many of the world’s other great metropolis’.
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 six 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.
In between times, I also do some PR and marketing work, which helps to pay the bills. 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.
What do you look like? A bit like this, mostly:
If you see me in the street, stop me and say hi. I’m probably late for whatever I’m going to anyway, so it won’t make much difference.
