{"id":66505,"date":"2014-07-01T10:01:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T08:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=66505"},"modified":"2014-07-01T11:10:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T09:10:08","slug":"mygaming-editor-james-etherington-smith-spreading-his-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/66505-mygaming-editor-james-etherington-smith-spreading-his-wings","title":{"rendered":"MyGaming editor spreading his wings"},"content":{"rendered":"

MyGaming editor James Etherington-Smith<\/strong> has announced that he will henceforth be known as former MyGaming editor James Etherington-Smith.<\/p>\n

News of his departure has been met with a great wailing and gnashing of teeth, shortly followed by calls to deliver swift pwnage on whichever noob is responsible for this travesty.<\/p>\n

Addressing MyGaming forumites in a\u00a0brand spanking new thread<\/strong><\/a> in the Announcements sub-forum, a teary-eyed Etherington-Smith revealed that he is pursuing a life and career in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

And let\u2019s be honest, with a name like \u201cJames Etherington-Smith\u201d who in Britain can compare to his British-ness (other than The Queen, of course).<\/p>\n

\u201cI am handing over the responsibility of keeping the site awesome to Kevin [Lancaster]<\/strong>, whom has now completed his rigorous training and can almost do 10 pushups without crying,\u201d Etherington-Smith said.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Butcher (from Diablo 3), by SeungHwan Jang<\/p><\/div>\n

Ahh, fresh meat!<\/h3>\n

Lancaster joined MyGaming<\/a> on 1 March 2014 and while helping to keep the site on the rails will be part of his job, he will also step into Etherington-Smith\u2019s shoes as sub-editor and newsfeed-checker extraordinaire for MyBroadband.<\/p>\n

However, Lancaster alone can not stand against the coming apocalypse (i.e. Christmas release season).<\/p>\n

The upset of losing Etherington-Smith to the siren song of London\u2019s mostly-working wireline broadband infrastructure has necessitated the trundling out of the big guns.<\/p>\n

(No Quinton, that wasn\u2019t a reference to your weight. Don\u2019t be so sensitive, gaaah!)<\/em><\/p>\n

Quinton Bronkhorst<\/strong> rejoins MyGaming\u2019s ranks after two years\u00a0of working full-time on BusinessTech<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He will still work as business and technology journalist at BusinessTech, but will devote some of his time to something, you know, fun.<\/p>\n

\u201cFew things excite me more than a company\u2019s HEPS and EBITDA, but Final Fantasy 8 comes close<\/a>,\u201d Bronkhorst said.<\/p>\n

A new editor for MyGaming<\/h3>\n
\"Team<\/a>

Team MyGaming, from left to right: Jan Vermeulen, Kevin Lancaster, Quinton Bronkhorst<\/p><\/div>\n

Last, but certainly not least, there is I: Jan The Magnanimous<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I shall assume the heavy burden of MyGaming editor, though my role will largely prevent me from contributing articles to the publication (other than this masterpiece).<\/p>\n

Though this means that you may now refer to me as Grand Poobah of MyGaming, I stay on as Senior Journalist at MyBroadband.<\/p>\n

I have been with MyBroadband since April 2010 and will still spend most of my time there, writing the technology news that helps make MyBroadband the greatest IT website in the country.<\/p>\n

Wikipedia says that this makes me a \u201cmanaging editor<\/a>\u201d of sorts, which is fancy-talk for \u201cguy who takes the flak, but doesn\u2019t actually do much else other than look important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Which brings me to another important announcement! Kevin, Quinton, you\u2019re going to have to take pay cuts. I may or may not have blown the entire MyGaming budget on new superhero cosplay outfits<\/del> suits.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, Jan\u2026 what the h*ck do you know about gaming anyway?\u201d you might ask.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m glad you asked, hypothetical reader used for my devious narrative ends. See, my gaming history begins around 1987\u2026<\/p>\n

[snip]<\/p>\n

Kevin\u00a0here. One of the perks of my job is I get to\u00a0cull Jan’s ridiculous, flowery monologues, thus sparing you all the pain of what I just had to read.<\/em><\/p>\n

Good gracious Jan can yammer on when you give him half a chance.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here are the highlights:<\/em><\/p>\n