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Hey friends, welcome to Beyond Episode 534. My name is Marty Sleeve. I'm joined by Andrew

Goldfarb. Hello. And Tina Meeley. Hello. You know, welcome. It's your first day at IGN.

It is. Yes. All of a couple hours. Who are you and why are you here? I am a human. I am on earth. I am here to lead the games

editorial team. Technically you're both. You're both. You're going to manage us. It's all going to be terrible mandates from here on.

No, that's sort of been our careers. But what's a little bit of a rundown sort of your history in the industry?

So I've been writing about games for too long now about like almost a decade, which is a weird thing to say. And makes me feel old.

I started like in college doing some, you know, typical like starting off doing news and doing some previews and stuff.

And at a small site. And then out of college, I started at Complex Magazine and ran the game's channel back when that still existed.

It no longer exists. Unfortunately mainstream is tough for games. Yep. Yeah. And then I was deputy editor at Kataku for roughly four years.

And then I was at Mashable doing leading the games content there. And here I am today. Yeah. Super excited.

A pretty good journey. Yeah. Yeah. You were injured. I was just talking about how we're both about to hit our milestones seven years. Yeah, we both started in 2011.

It just seems like such a long time. When you reflect on it, you're like, no, that can't be true. Yeah. I'm like, how have I been doing this longer?

That almost as long as like high school and college combined. Oh God. That's how you know you're getting older. I know.

I'm looking at you as you eat as all like babies and I'm just in constant pain. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. My knees. Yeah. My hips. Yeah. You guys are making me feel real good about being.

Oh, yeah. I have to. Yeah. For the Andrew. Yeah.

They're getting old today's Andrew's 30 second birthday. Yep. One step closer to death. I think you're one. Look and we made a picture for you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Well, I look very, I like that completely non-smiling photo that you use. Well, that's because it is very persona.

It is very persona. You know, you have to be intense. I have to be that's true. I have to steal hearts.

So if, if Andrew sings persona, do you have a thing? Do you have a game that you don't shut up about?

Not quite. I'm like, I'm all over the board. So like, at Kotaku, I was the Borderlands person.

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