Gary Penn is a former British
games reviewer who wrote for
Zzap!64
''Zzap!64'' was a computer games magazine covering games on the Commodore International series of computers, especially the Commodore 64 (C64). It was published in the UK by Newsfield Publications Ltd and later by Europress Impact.
The magazine ...
in the 1980s and is a
video game industry
The video game industry encompasses the development, marketing, and monetization of video games. The industry encompasses dozens of job disciplines and thousands of jobs worldwide.
The video game industry has grown from niches to mainstream. , ...
veteran. He later was editor of
The One
The ONE is a shopping centre in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is built on the site of the former Tung Ying Building at 100 Nathan Road. It was developed by Chinese Estates Holdings and opened in 2010. Owner Joseph Lau Luen-hung g ...
from 1988 to 1990 and was Creative Director at
DMA Design
Rockstar North Limited (formerly DMA Design Limited) is a British video game development company and a studio of Rockstar Games based in Edinburgh. The company was founded as DMA Design in Dundee in 1987 by David Jones, soon hiring former cla ...
where he supervised the release of the first ''
Grand Theft Auto
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'' game in 1997.
Penn has described the game as taking years to develop and almost being cancelled.
Penn won the Games Media Legend award in 2007.
As of September 2011, he is head of development at
Denki
Denki is an interactive television and console game developer based in Dundee, Scotland. The company is the developer of over 180 console and interactive television games, covering a range of platforms. Denki has worked extensively in the dig ...
.
Penn claims his magazine background helped him setting up a "Hollywood-style" studio system there:
Penn is the author of the book Sensible Software 1986–1999.
References
External links
Gary Pennat
MobyGames
MobyGames is a commercial website that catalogs information on video games and the people and companies behind them via crowdsourcing. This includes nearly 300,000 games for hundreds of platforms. The site is supported by banner ads and a small ...
British male journalists
British magazine editors
Living people
People from Hertfordshire
Year of birth missing (living people)
Video game critics
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