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Team Playfire

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  • Kieran

    Kieran O'Neill

    Co-founder/managing director/fridge stocker

    A diehard RTS fan, Kieran wasted much of his youth on StarCraft, Red Alert and Age of Empires. In between perfecting his micro, he started the video sharing site HolyLemon (which he sold last year), as well as founding PSU.com and PS3Forums.com with partner in crime Seb Hayes (below).

    Favourite game of all time: Deus Ex or Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun

  • Seb

    Seb Hayes

    Co-founder/chief operations officer

    Having bought all three PlayStation consoles on the day of release, it would be prudent to say Seb likes PlayStation. In fact so much so that he co-founded the largest PlayStation news & review site on the web (PSU.com) with Kieran, as well as growing PS3Forums.com into the 500th biggest forum worldwide.

    Favourite game of all time: Final Fantasy VII

  • Ben

    Ben Phillips

    Co-founder/chief technical wizard

    Despite a chronic addiction to Championship Manager during university, Ben managed to graduate with a degree in Computer Science from the University of Southampton. Some say he loves Python more than life itself, and that he'd have written his bio in binary if we had let him. With an eclectic taste, you'll find him playing anything from to PAIN, Heavenly Sword and Doom, to Syndicate, Lemmings and open source RTS games.

    Favourite game of all time: Doom

  • Aaron

    Aaron Sokoloski

    Developer

    Forgoing sunlight to spend his childhood playing games, Aaron is a shark when it comes to games: his innocent demeanor conceals the fact that he is about to rip you apart. In Starcraft, anyways. We didn't fancy playing him at any other games after that. Apart from gaming and coding, he practices Wing Chun and taught Chuck Norris all he knows.

    Favourite game of all time: Super Smash Bros.: Melee

  • Abby

    Abby Mutesasira

    Interactive designer

    Growing up in the land of blonde girls and meatballs, Abby has migrated from his Swedish roots to London, where he is responsible for making everything on Playfire pretty and easy to use. Never cooking so he has more time to game, you'll find him trash talking in the COD4 and Halo 3 lobbies on Xbox Live. He says his two favorite films are Swordfish and Brokeback Mountain, but we still can't quite tell if he's being serious.

    Favourite game of all time: Super Mario Galaxy

  • Chris

    Chris Lamb

    Developer

    Picking up a harmless-looking Game Boy as a kid, Chris contracted a Tetris OCD that troubles him to this day. However, after the medication kicks in, he reverts to a die-hard GNU/Linux fan who enjoys hacking, tinkering with servers and playing classical music.

    Favourite game of all time: Tetris or Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing

  • Brad

    Brad Abrahams

    Front-end developer

    A gamer since the age of about 12, Brad remembers saving up to buy a Sega Master System and playing Sonic when he should have been doing school work. Nowadays he favours the Xbox 360, and likes to get stuck into a good RPG. When not gaming Brad can often be found knitting or listening to aggressive jungle music (usually at the same time).

    Favourite game of all time: Deus Ex or The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time