Eurogamer says farewell to Chris Bratt
About three and a half years ago, when we were looking to expand Eurogamer's video team, Wesley and I had lunch in a pub in South London with a young man called Chris Bratt. We knew him from videos in which he would play a confused and adorably awkward stooge to the comic creations of VideoGamer's Jim Trinca. The man we met was confused and adorably awkward, but also passionate, idealistic, smart, and willing to berate his prospective employers about the greatness of strategy gaming for a really surprising length of time. We hired him.
Chris slotted in so naturally at Eurogamer that it was soon hard to imagine what the office had been like without his impish humour, tidy jumpers and excellent tea. He's worked hard with the rest of the video team to drive our YouTube channel to where it currently sits, just shy of half a million subscribers. He tried VR porn in public, gave an award to a sandwich stand and set a list feature record by finding 112 things to say about an XCOM expansion. On the site, he wrote about Total War a lot and used review straplines to indulge his man-crushes on XCOM's Jake Solomon and Overwatch's Jeff Kaplan. Above all, he's been a talented, dedicated, sweet and hilarious colleague and friend. So it's with great sadness that I must announce that this is his last day with Eurogamer (as you may already know from Twitter).
Chris is leaving to start a Patreon-funded new video series called People Make Games. It's modelled on the video journalism he's been producing here at Eurogamer, on and off, for the past 18 months, under the title Here's A Thing.
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