Gary Penn is a former British games reviewer

Videogames journalism

Video game journalism is a branch of journalism concerned with the reporting and discussion of video games. It is typically based on a core reveal/preview/review cycle...

 who wrote for Zzap!64

Zzap!64

Zzap!64 was a computer games magazine covering games on the Commodore International series of computers, especially the Commodore 64 . It was published in the UK by Newsfield Publications Ltd and later by Europress Impact....

 in the '80s and is a games industry veteran. He later was editor of The One

The One (magazine)

The One was a video game magazine in the United Kingdom which covered 16-bit home gaming during the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was first published by EMAP in October 1988 and initially covered computer games aimed at the Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, and IBM PC markets.Like many similar magazines,...

 and was Creative Director at DMA Design where he supervised the release of the first Grand Theft Auto

Grand Theft Auto (video game)

Grand Theft Auto is a 1997 action-adventure video game created by British games developer DMA Design and published by BMG Interactive. The game allows the player to take on the role of a criminal who can roam freely around a big city. Various missions are set for completion, such as bank...

 game in 1997.

Penn won the Games Media Legend award in 2007.

He is currently (September 2011) Head of Development at Denki

Denki

Denki is a 'digital toy factory', based in Dundee Scotland. The company is the creator of over 180 individual games, covering a range of platforms...

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Penn claims his magazine background helped him setting up a "Hollywood-style" studio system there:

External links

• Gary Penn at MobyGames
  MobyGames
  -Platforms not yet included:- Further reading :* Rusel DeMaria, Johnny L. Wilson, High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games, McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media; 2 edition , ISBN 0-07-223172-6...