25 years ago this week, two brothers from Brighton helped set up a website about video games. They based the fledgling operation in their parents’ converted garage and named it Eurogamer – a spin-off of a Quake 2 tournament they used to run, EuroQuake.
By the time I joined, in 2010, Eurogamer was a household name in the global games industry, and that small garage-based gang had grown into a team soon to fill a three-storey office in the centre of the city.
Eurogamer had carved out a reputation for writing fearlessly about video games, and earned itself a brilliantly engaged, knowledgeable and loyal audience as a result.
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