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2 August 2013updated 12 Oct 2023 10:13am

New Statesman bloggers nominated for Games Media Awards

Helen Lewis and Phil Hartup shortlisted.

By New Statesman

New Statesman videogame writers Helen Lewis and Phil Hartup have been nominated in the Games Media Awards.

Lewis is shortlisted for mainstream magazine writer of the year, and Hartup in the blogs category for Killing Time, where he has written about being embedded in Eve Online, the secret of scary games, and asked: what if you feel sorry for the people you’re shooting?

New Statesman contributors Simon Parkin and Cara Ellison have also been nominated. You can read Parkin’s essay on game violence and Ellison’s satirical “There’s No Sexism in Gaming” on the New Statesman site by following the links.

Lewis said: “People thought it was weird when they first started noticing articles about videogames in the New Statesman. But we treat television, film and theatre as serious cultural subjects, so why not games? It’s been a pleasure to publish so many talented writers over the last year, in a range of styles. The best videogame writing is up there with anything else other genres produce. Phil’s blog has been a huge success for us and his articles are regularly among our most-read. It shows there’s an appetite for funny, incisive, intelligent commentary on games, even if the games themselves are sometimes quite silly.”

The winners will be announced on 10 October. Here are the nominations in full:

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