Did you know he was nearly a professional footballer? If it hadn’t been for a shoulder injury when he was a teenager, we might well have seen him on TV playing for a top club. He had try-outs at a few of them. He might even have been England’s goalkeeper – who knows?!
know he’ll hate me saying that.
Nevertheless, fate intervened and we got him. is Chris Tapsell. He began writing guides at Eurogamer several years ago and his aptitude for critical writing – and Pokémon – was obvious, so his role evolved. He joined the features team, writing about how he appeared in Football Manager one year, the braggart, before sliding with more focus towards reviews.
He would go on to handle some of the biggest reviews in recent years, for games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Returnal, while behind the scenes taking on editor responsibilities in the area. And so it was that when he was named the new reviews editor in November last year, he was already off to a running start.