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About
Northern Irish YouTube creator, video game analyst, and game developer known for his YouTube channel which covers gaming industry news, MMO updates, live service trends, and in-depth commentary and discussions on a variety of different games and gaming companies. He is also the founder and managing director of Saltstone Studio, which is the development team behind the critically praised survival narrative game The Pale Beyond that was released in 2023.
Before fame
He studied Computer Science at Queen's University Belfast where he met future collaborator Thomas Hislop. He created his YouTube channel in 2015 and uploaded his first public video in January 2019. His channel started gaining significant traction throughout 2022 with a spike in late 2024 into 2025 as several of his videos received more than a million views each.
Trivia
He has been associated with the "Stop Killing Games" movement, which is a consumer pushback against publishers removing or disabling paid games.
Family life
His real name is Michael Bell. He grew up in Northern Ireland. He was raised in the Derry area and later relocated to Belfast.
Associated with
He has discussed the head of Valve Corporation Gabe Newell on his channel in multiple videos.
