Scotsman columnist wins games award

A COLUMNIST on The Scotsman is among the winners at an awards ceremony celebrating the best in console and computer games media.

Dave Cook – who also writes for the Scotland-based games website, Square Go – was winner of the Best Regional Columnist title at the Game Media Awards.

The awards ceremony took place at the end of last week, in London.

The other winners were:

Specialist games writer, online

Ellie Gibson, Eurogamer

Rising star

Simon Miller, X360

Games sebsite

Eurogamer

Games broadcast

Games Night on Xleague.tv

National newspaper – best games coverage

The Guardian

Mainstream magazine games writer

Simon Munk, FHM

Specialist games writer, print

Tom Francis, PC Gamer

Games magazine

Edge

Games media legend

Steve Jarratt