Simon Carless

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Simon Carless is a video game industry journalist, editor and game designer. He was born in London, England, but has since moved to San Jose, California. Simon commutes to San Francisco where he works for CMP Technology as the Editorial Director in the CMP Game Group including editing both Game Developer Magazine and the Webby Award winning Gamasutra. Simon is chairman and a judge for the Independent Games Festival and in 2007 led the Independent Games Summit as part of the Game Developers Conference. Simon regularly contributes to GameSetWatch.com, an alternative video game web log which is part of Gamasutra.

He was formerly the editor of the games page on Slashdot, and he has also worked as a lead game designer at Kuju Entertainment, Eidos Interactive and Atari, to name a couple. His best known work is probably Gaming Hacks, a book published by O'Reilly Media.[1]

Carless has also operated the netlabel Monotonik continuously since 1996.

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