Angus Swan is a successful writer and editor who has worked on magazines such as Mean Machines, Mean Machines Sega and Official Sega Magazine. Mean Machines was a market-leading multi-format gaming magazine released between 1990 and 1992 in the United Kingdom, much loved by gamers of the time for its irreverent humor, anarchic editorial tone and style, and its extremely accurate, if sometimes outrageously outspoken reviews. ...

'Gus' was a Mean Machines reviewer for one issue only, stepping on board for issue 24 - the final one before the split into Mean Machines Sega and Nintendo Magazine System. Mean Machines was a market-leading multi-format gaming magazine released between 1990 and 1992 in the United Kingdom, much loved by gamers of the time for its irreverent humor, anarchic editorial tone and style, and its extremely accurate, if sometimes outrageously outspoken reviews. ...

Gus got his first job by answering an advert placed in MM for a staff writer. He sent in a review and was called down to EMAP’s offices for an interview. However he was rejected in favour of Rob Bright. However two months later Julian Rignall contacted Gus again and offered him the job – more staff were needed for the upcoming split into two magazines. EMAP plc is a British media company, specialising in the production of magazines, and the organization of business events and conferences. ... Julian Jaz Rignall was a reviewer for the seminal Commodore 64 magazine ZZap! 64. ...

After the split Gus worked on Mean Machines Sega, eventually becoming and remaining editor until the magazine was combined with Official UK Sega Magazine in January 1997.

Gus was then involved in the planning and launch of Game-Online, a multiformat games internet site which combined content from Emap's games magazines with a 24-hour news agenda. Game-Online ran from 1997-1999 and was then rebranded as Computer and Video Games (magazine), as an online partner to the print magazine. It was eventually sold with the C&VG magazine to Dennis Publishing in 2001. Cover of C&VG from 1991 Computer And Video Games (C&VG) was a video game magazine in the United Kingdom, published monthly between November 1981 and 2004. ... Dennis Logo Dennis Publishing Ltd. ...

Gus Swan has continued to work at Emap on numerous web and technology projects in his capacity of Business Analysis Manager, in addition to writing freelance for titles including Heat Magazine Heat Magazine is a weekly celebrity gossip magazine based in the UK edited by Mark Frith. ...

External links

• Interview with Angus Swan at the Mean Machines Archive