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Hello! I'm Steve, a journalist and games writer with fluency in comedy, TV and games of board/video/card varieties. On the corporate side, I work as a PR and marketing content specialist for a software company. Both my B2C and B2B writing offers clarity about complex topics—I excel at distilling technical jargon and industry lingo into compelling, precise pieces of content.
Publications include: Rolling Stone, GQ, Fast Company, Variety, The AV Club and the Chicago Sun-Times.
Endorsed by Mel Brooks. Seriously!
How a Monday night comedy show in the back of a bar, boasting some of the wildest acts imaginable, transformed Chicago's stand-up comedy landscape and gave rise to some of the best comics working today.
During their nineties heyday, the Jerky Boys turned prank calling into a funny, filthy art form. Then they went quiet. Now, the group's co-founder and driving force, Johnny Brennan, is ready to hit redial on his career.
"The Old Man and the Pool" marks an evolution point for Birbiglia's comedic style.
Final Fantasy's airships serve more than a pragmatic purpose: they're plot-escalators, removing the filler of random battles in favor of rare loot or exciting new characters.
After some initial trepidation, it turns out Dark Souls' new director knows exactly what makes the series tick.
From Software games can feel overwhelming and isolating, but the Dark Souls II DLC invites others in.
The Czech performer, who has fooled Penn and Teller, engages his audiences with a show of personality and interactive tricks.
How a content marketer with a background in journalism is helping to reverse cannabis stigma—the result of decades of anti-drug propaganda—by focusing on the facts
The Annoyance Theatre’s savagely funny 30-year-old slasher spoof is a triumph of a certain schlocky stagecraft