Steve is a veteran games, music and pop culture journalist as well as being the Editor-at-large of Checkpoint Magazine.

Steve has been writing about videogames since the early 1990s. His first console was an Atari VCS, and he misspent most of his youth in the 1980s in the arcades. As well as for Checkpoint, he can be found writing for The Guardian, Metro, Empire, TechRadar and Pocket-Lint. In the past, he has written for The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Mirror, Esquire and The Face. He’s currently having trouble deciding whether his favourite console is his Xbox One X or his Switch, and plays a wide range of games, but especially RPGs (he loves a good JRPG) action-adventure titles, shooters of all descriptions and driving games. He supports Tottenham Hotspur, often DJs and lies to tinker with analogue synths.