Jamie Moorcroft-Sharp, Staff Writer for Gamepur | Extended Author Bio

gamepur.com:

I’m terrible with openings and bad with introductions, so hi, I’m Jamie. I’m a Staff Writer for Gamepur and have been since 2021. I love games and always have, plain and simple. I grew up in the 90s reading the golden age of video game magazines like Official PlayStation Magazine, Official Nintendo Magazine, Games ™, and pretty much anything I could get my hands on. Something about the passion with which the writers spoke about each game in features, guides, and interviews just enraptured me.

In the past, I’ve written for quite a few sites, but now it’s just Gamepur, so I can focus all my attention on writing the best articles possible. You can still find me in print through issues of Lock-On from Lost in Cult, and I’ve been News Editor for Switch Player Magazine up until its final issue (#69). I’ll never stop writing for print games journalism where possible. I love what I get to do for Gamepur, but nothing compares to seeing my name in a physical book or magazine that I could show my parents and say, “look! I’ve made it!”

I’ve been working in games journalism for probably 10 years now. I’m 32 with two kids – time is just a blurred ball as soon as another day ends. When my wife and I were engaged, she went to university in Leicester, and I spent 2 years driving an hour and a half every week to see her until I finally moved there and, y’know, married her. I quit my stable job and got an awful job writing SEO copy that I literally fell into. It taught me to write well, and quickly, and I started a blog (now long dead) that gave me the confidence to put myself out there.

That blog gave me a portfolio to get some writing work in games for a wholesaler that I kept going until I started at Gamepur. Along