Hey you!
If you can write and you love PC gaming we’d like to hear from you. Gaming Daily is a tight and fun community of respected writers that endeavour to bring the best PC Gaming articles to the internet: proper, opinionated reviews, editorials, retrospectives, and strictly no press-releases or rumors-as-headlines type rubbish.
Why you should
It’s voluntary work, which isn’t ideal for anyone but good things will come of it. If you’re worth your salt, you’ll get some excellent profiling with people that matter and some great experience in writing for a site with high standards and editorial processes.
Let me unashamedly drop some names and things that our guys have done: we’ve had Tim Edwards (PC Gamer editor), Richard Cobbett (PC Plus features editor, PCG freelancer) and Joe Martin (bit-tech/custom pc games editor) in podcasts (or even writing for us). Jaz McDougall, Tom Senior, Ed Fenning and Tom Hatfield all ‘worked’ for us (and still make appearances) for substantial periods before PC Gamer snapped them up as staff writers and pretty-much-full-time freelancers. Craig Lager (Editor) regularly writes for Bit-Gamer.net, Custom PC Magazine, Continue Magazine, and has appeared in PC Plus and Rock Paper Shotgun, and Chris Thursten splits his time between us, Edge Magazine and PCG.
Lastly, Graham Smith of PC Gamer has been known to tell budding new writers to come and work for us to learn the ropes. Out of all the sites out there, he recommended us. So, that’s why you should do it – if nothing else, Gaming Daily is a good thing to tell people you’ve worked on.
To start contributing:
Have a read of our style guide and send us stuff that fits. Hopefully you’re already well acquainted with the site and know the sort of stuff we do, but it’s still worth having a look. After that, send a sample or two to craig@gamingdaily.co.uk, or even better, link us to your blog and we’ll take a look. We do reply to all emails, so if you haven’t heard from us in a week then we’ve either not received it or we’ve forgotten – do feel free to remind us.
