"Dave Cook" is a video game journalist, author and former Public relations/PR consultant living in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has written game reviews and features for online and print publications. His previous work includes writing for GamesTM, The Escapist (magazine)/The Escapist, as well as SquareGo, Ready Up, The List and The Skinny.

From January 2009 to April 2010, Cook was managing director of video game public relations firm Ink Media. He writes a weekly gaming column in The Scotsman which has earned him a Games Media Awards in 2008, 2010 and one in 2011 for best regional newspaper writer.

Between April 2010 and July 2012, Cook served as games editor at UK-based multiformat gaming site NowGamer. He writes for video game website VG247 as Deputy Editor.

In October 2012, Dave Cook received criticism by video games writer Rab Florence and video game journalist John Walker (journalist)/John Walker for participating in a competition to win a PS3 by tweeting about a specific company's game.

On Boxing Day 2013, Cook and author Matthew Drury released collaboratively-written sci-fi novel Drifting.

Cook is also writing his first solo novel Seventh Circle.

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