Chella Ramanan
Chella hails from the UK and joined Gameindustry.com around the year 2000. It was so many moons ago, she can't quite remember. Back then, the only women you saw in the games industry were in bikinis and vertiginous heels at trade shows - oh how times have changed, kind of. Chella started as a humble reviewer, but soon became our European Correspondent and keeps us on top of industry happenings across the Pond.
She tends to like the weird Japanese games we've never heard of, so that's good for making us look all-encompassing and stuff. Chella does like games, so don't be fooled by the copious amount of columns devoted to bemoaning the lack of variety in the industry. When she's not surfing (the sea, not the internet) or camping up mountains, Chella likes a good action RPG (especially if it's sci-fi), anything with a good narrative and like we said, the weirder the better. She's also a regular in the GiN Lounge, but that's just because we like her accent.
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Hello Chella and Drew. I love the new longer format. Great show. Actually one thing I wanted to add was that there were plenty of pretenders to Lara’s crown back in the day. It was almost becoming a Tomb Raider knock off competition along with Command and Conquer copies. Then they all died off and only left Lara standing. Uncharted came well after all that by a decade, but it came at a time when the owners of Tomb Raider had let the franchise slide into near oblivion. Plus being a PS3 exclusive helped to give it an inborn audience. Now Lara is back, but too late to stop Uncharted. I wonder if that is why the new Tomb Raider was an Xbox One exclusive, to make up for Uncharted being a PlayStation only series?
Hi Miles. Thanks for the feedback. We are going to go a bit longer on future episodes, but not this long, unless it’s a meaty topic that we want to go to town on.
I suspect you’re right regarding Tomb Raider and Xbox One.
Thanks for listening.