Rich is a amateur announcer with 15 years' experience, alpha his career on Bend annual afore alive for a advanced ambit of outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar , Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice. He was the editor of Kotaku UK, the UK arm of Kotaku, for three years afore abutting PC Gamer. He is the columnist of a Abrupt History of Video Games, a abounding history of the medium, which the Midwest Book Analysis declared as "[a] must-read for austere absent bold historians and analytical video bold connoisseurs alike."