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Need for greed

Don’t think for a second that the life of a videogame journalist was all fancy trips overseas, and glitzy junkets with glamorous celebs. There was a degree of that, of course, but you also have to remember that I wrote Digitiser for Teletext, which most games company PR people viewed as having all the contemporary relevance of a recently defrosted Palaeolithic

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