Dave Cook is an award-winning video game journalist

Journalist

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 and former PR

Public relations

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 consultant from Edinburgh

Edinburgh

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, Scotland

Scotland

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, now living in Bournemouth

Bournemouth

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, England

England

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. Dave has written game reviews and features for a range of online and print publications, his previous work includes writing for gaming magazine, GamesTM

GamesTM

GamesTM is a UK-based, multi-format video games magazine, covering many video game platforms including PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, GameCube, Xbox, PlayStation 2, PC games, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS and Arcade machines...

, online magazine The Escapist

The Escapist (magazine)

The Escapist is an online magazine covering video games, gamers, the gaming industry, and gaming culture. Published by the Themis Group, it was edited by Julianne Greer up to June 30, 2009, then by Russ Pitts through September 2011, and is currently edited by Steve Butts. The Escapist was first...

 as well as SquareGo

SquareGo

SquareGo Magazine is an independent publication founded in Scotland in 2006 which reports on video game news, reviews and previews.-History:SquareGo originated as an offshoot from the The Skinny 's Digital Section...

, Ready Up, The List and The Skinny.

From January 2009 - April 2010, Dave was also managing director of video game public relations firm Ink Media.

He writes a weekly gaming column in The Scotsman

The Scotsman

The Scotsman is a British newspaper, published in Edinburgh.As of August 2011 it had an audited circulation of 38,423, down from about 100,000 in the 1980s....

, one of Scotland's longest-running national newspapers, scooping the author a Games Media Award in 2008 and 2010 for Best Regional Columnist.

Dave is also, currently writing for gaming 'super site' NowGamer

External links

• Collection of Dave Cook's articles for NowGamer - http://www.nowgamer.com/people/4331/davecook
• Collection of Dave Cook's articles for SquareGo - http://www.square-go.com/author/Dave%20C
• Collection of Dave Cook's articles for The Scotsman - http://www.journalisted.com/dave-cook