Ben Maxwell

Background

About Ben Maxwell

Hello there! I'm Network N's Publishing Director. I oversee the company's publishing division, and the owned-and-operated sites within it. These include PCGamesN, The Loadout, Pocket Tactics, Wargamer, The Digital Fix, and PCGameBenchmark. Prior to this I was Group Editor, working within the senior management team to execute editorial strategies across our brands and deliver commercial content. I moved into that role after a two-year stint as PCGamesN Editor, and was one of the site's two Deputy Editors just before that. Increasingly long ago now, I spent seven years as Staff Writer and then Features Editor on Edge magazine, and broke in to the industry via Pocket Gamer. As well as in the various forms Edge has taken, my writing has also found its way into PCGamesN, Creative Review, Games Master, Official Nintendo Magazine, Official PlayStation Magazine, Official Xbox Magazine, Imagine FX, Pocket Gamer, CVG, GamesRadar+, and PC Gamer. Oh, and you'll find some of my musings in the hefty Tony Mott-edited coffee-table buckler 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die. During my time at Pocket Gamer I co-hosted the Pocket Gamer podcast for several months, too. I was painfully funny. Prior to working out how to play videogames for a living I helped build indie record label Motive Sounds Recordings, and played guitar in post-rock bands ctrlaltdelete and Mt. I now make digital music under the name Injuries, and band hop with my guitar. Most importantly of all, I make really good risotto.