John Sweeney

John Sweeney is a terribly British man with a background in engineering. He writes long-form editorial content with analysis of gaming, games media and internet culture. He also does the occasional video game retrospective with a weekly column about Magic the Gathering thrown in for good measure. He also does most of our interviews for some reason, we have no idea why. A staunch supporter of free speech and consumer rights; skeptical of agenda driven media and suspicious of unaccoutable authority but always hopeful for change.

Captain America: Civil War Review

(Update 5/13/2016: Author mis­tak­en­ly im­plied that Fox owns the rights to Spider-Man, when it is in fact Sony who owns the movie rights. The ar­ti­cle has been up­dat­ed to re­flect this.) Seen in 2D at a UK Vue Cinema, re­view­er paid for ticket. […]

Magic the Gathering Year in Review: Criticism Proof Windows, Controversy Safe Doors

Hasbro is a nat­u­ral­ly cau­tious com­pa­ny, and one ad­verse to con­tro­ver­sy. Their han­dling of Magic the Gathering — one of their flag­ship prop­er­ties — very much re­flects this. This has been a year of mar­ket­ing cau­tion turn­ing into em­bar­rass­ing over­re­ac­tions, and PR blun­ders both by Wizards […]

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