Scott Jones

Scott Jones has cast a jaundiced eye on videogames since the Atari 2600 era. Despite forays into football (12 years) and poetry (M.F.A., three years), Jones never stopped haunting game stores and studying screenshots in all the latest videogame magazines. During a five-year stint at a men's sophisticate magazine in the late '90s -- which Jones refers to as "My Years Among the Depressed and the Damned" -- he began secretly penning game reviews for GameCritics.com over his lunch hour. After finally parting ways with the men's sophisticate world, Jones began filing game reviews and game-centric editorials -- and actually getting paid for game writing -- for Maxim and Stuff's Web sites on a freelance basis. He's since written for Playboy, Sports Illustrated for Kids, USA Weekend Magazine, GameDaily, Blender, The A.V. Club and Time Out New York, among others. He currently lives in New York City with his two sideburns.