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Custom PC expands team
Custom PC levels up with three new staff members
As any RPG player knows, adding the right people to your party is crucial if you want to succeed in your adventure. Our quest for new staff, begun early in the Spring has now reached a conclusion, and we're pleased to announce we've recently added three new members to the CPC team, doubling the size of the full-time editorial crew.
Expanding the team means that we'll be able to write much more for both the website and the magazine, so you can look forward to more reviews and features online, more video, and more regular podcasts too.
Orestis Bastounis joins team CPC from a stint with Future Publishing in Bath as a Senior Staff Writer; he's a committed MMO player, and frankly evangelical when it comes to EVE, and more recently Conan.
We've also hired two staff writers: Antony Leather will be known to any regular users of the CPC forums. As Combatus, he's used his considerable knowledge of water-cooling to help out many a newbie. Mark Mackay joins Custom PC from Vadim, where he helped build some of the best PCs we've ever seen (have a look at Vadim's Dream PC entry from last year to see what we mean).
All in all, it means that as Custom PC heads towards its fifth birthday*, we couldn't be in better shape for continuing our tradition of hard-hiting, informative PC hardware and games coverage. So that you can give them a warm welcome when you see them on the forums, here are their user names:
Orestis: OB_Writer
Antony: Combatus
Mark: Cutter_McJib
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Combatus :) AKA Ant :) EVE is a great game, any insight on the newish expansion EMYPERAN age would be nice, however big or small the article :)
Comment by Lightning_Pete at 11:32am 4th July 2008
Cool. Looking forward to see how you can better an already great mag. Hope you'll have more time to sort out the website too, as the elite products page is a little out of date compare to the mag listings. Maybe a subcribers only section too and more competions so that I can eventually win something. Keep up the good work.
Comment by d4martin at 11:13am 4th July 2008
WOW is one MMO I haven't played much of, except beta. Eve, EQ2, Star Wars Galaxies, Planetside and now Conan are the ones I've racked up the most time playing. I'm also a big FPS fan, I consider myself a mean TF2 player, although I'm useless at CSS. I've been playing COD4 a lot too, and anything Quake / Unreal I dedicate my time to. Then there's strategy games... Civ4 and Supreme Commander being one my favorite ways to while away an entire evening (with a thermos of coffee and pizza). I also have a dirty console habit as well. All signs of a thoroughly wasted youth.
Comment by OB_Writer at 9:48am 4th July 2008
... we had a true mmo player amoung the ranks, just nee you to start playing WoW nw ; ). Gratz guys on the jobs, looking forward to some new fetures, and maybee an updated mmo survival guide?
Comment by intelc2d at 1:30am 4th July 2008
Despite my Greek name, I don't speak the language (Although I do love the country), except for Yiasou, Ti kaneis. and a few naughty words. They wont be printed in the magazine. But I'm glad we have some Greek readers.
Comment by OB_Writer at 11:11pm 2nd July 2008
a re Oresti, etsi, na exoume kai kamia ellhna sthn omada! ;)
Comment by gcd_638000846b0f at 9:25pm 2nd July 2008
Your mag. wil getting better and better...can't wait for next issue with new staffs. Well done guys.
Comment by Thanh55 at 9:38pm 2nd July 2008
Good news and good luck to the new team members. Looking forward to an even more interesting read!
Comment by _fac51_ at 7:35pm 2nd July 2008
Gratz to you all (Does that indicate I play MMOs too much?) Looking forward to consuming as much of the increased output as I can! And yes, getting to play with all the new kit must be cool, though I figure you'll end up with less time to actually use it ;) And I'm sure Alex is tough but fair... mostly :P Mmm, doughnuts.
Comment by countstex at 6:38pm 2nd July 2008
Will be looking foward to some more O/clocking and Water cooling features now. Good luck guys *rubs hands*
Comment by stuartpengs at 5:29pm 2nd July 2008
Thanks for the nice comments guys. Yup, it's pretty good fun here at Custom PC. Although Alex has us working really hard! Treats us mean to keep us keen.
Comment by OB_Writer at 4:21pm 2nd July 2008
Can we put them to work immediately to put an end to all the Intel/AMD or Nvidia/ATi talk that seems to infect every topic. Can the Phenom manage anything better than paperweight? Is Intel holding back it's greatest inventions just because it wants to? Can ATi release a GPU that does exactly what they say it can do? Is Nvidia here to take over Marks & Spencers because they heard it sells Chips? These are the important questions we need answering damn it!
Comment by crazyceo at 2:54pm 2nd July 2008
It just means an already perfect magazine just got better! Hope the new guys are settling in, you lucky *chaps*! You get to play with all the latest hardware... I hate you :-P ***Please keep it clean***
Comment by CPC_RedDawn at 1:26pm 2nd July 2008
All the best... and please do me 1 favour... Give us some really Amazing news!! :) thanx!!
Comment by NikoBellic at 11:41am 2nd July 2008
I look forward to a thicker, better issue of CPC next month with all these new staff members. Great work.
Comment by Scrit at 11:32am 2nd July 2008
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