Nazih Fares
- Additional Crew
- Producer
Fares started his career in 2003 for publications such as Time Out Beirut, T3 Middle East and At7addak.com.
He has covered several games-industry event, including the reveal launch of Assassin's Creed III where he interviewed the game's lead writer Matt Turner, but also conferences including E3 and Gamescom. Fares have interviewed Yves Guillemot, Noah Hughes, Tore Blystad and others. Gamescom 2012 was his last appearance as a gaming journalist, he resigned from his post as Editor-in-Chief of At7addak.com and accepted a job offer of a PR Executive at Pluto Games.
In 2014 he created VGProfessional.com, a compilation of successful video game industry professionals to share their work. He currently is the Editor-in-Chief of the website, and writes as author name of King Ozimandus. It has a seasonal podcast show, produced and co-hosted by Fares, Mazen Abdallah and Luciano Rahal, known as The VGP Radio Show.
After his career in video gaming journalism, Fares was hired by Pluto Games to handle public relations for international gaming publishers and manufacturers including Mad Catz, Xbox, Bethesda Softworks, 505 Games, NCSoft, Capcom, Konami, Disney Interactive and Tecmo Koei, for Middle East countries (UAE, KSA, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Lebanon, Jordan, Oman and Egypt).
In February 2014, Fares left Pluto Games to join Power League Gaming, the oldest esports operator in the Middle East as Head of PR & Marketing. He has managed the Marketing and Public Relations activity in regards to publishers such as Activision Blizzard, Warner Bros, Ubisoft, EA Sports and more during his tenure until August 2018. During that time, Nazih Fares was featured in Le Commerce Du Levant as one of Lebanon's "To Watch For" young entrepreneurs and tech professionals.
Fares was the Communications Manager for Blizzard Entertainment from September 2018 to January 2021, handling the RIMEA region which includes Russia & CIS Countries, the Indian subcontinent, Middle East and Africa, working based of Blizzard Entertainment International's offices in the Hague, Netherlands. Since 2021, he is the Head of Communications & Localization at The 4 Winds Entertainment in the Netherlands.
He has covered several games-industry event, including the reveal launch of Assassin's Creed III where he interviewed the game's lead writer Matt Turner, but also conferences including E3 and Gamescom. Fares have interviewed Yves Guillemot, Noah Hughes, Tore Blystad and others. Gamescom 2012 was his last appearance as a gaming journalist, he resigned from his post as Editor-in-Chief of At7addak.com and accepted a job offer of a PR Executive at Pluto Games.
In 2014 he created VGProfessional.com, a compilation of successful video game industry professionals to share their work. He currently is the Editor-in-Chief of the website, and writes as author name of King Ozimandus. It has a seasonal podcast show, produced and co-hosted by Fares, Mazen Abdallah and Luciano Rahal, known as The VGP Radio Show.
After his career in video gaming journalism, Fares was hired by Pluto Games to handle public relations for international gaming publishers and manufacturers including Mad Catz, Xbox, Bethesda Softworks, 505 Games, NCSoft, Capcom, Konami, Disney Interactive and Tecmo Koei, for Middle East countries (UAE, KSA, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Lebanon, Jordan, Oman and Egypt).
In February 2014, Fares left Pluto Games to join Power League Gaming, the oldest esports operator in the Middle East as Head of PR & Marketing. He has managed the Marketing and Public Relations activity in regards to publishers such as Activision Blizzard, Warner Bros, Ubisoft, EA Sports and more during his tenure until August 2018. During that time, Nazih Fares was featured in Le Commerce Du Levant as one of Lebanon's "To Watch For" young entrepreneurs and tech professionals.
Fares was the Communications Manager for Blizzard Entertainment from September 2018 to January 2021, handling the RIMEA region which includes Russia & CIS Countries, the Indian subcontinent, Middle East and Africa, working based of Blizzard Entertainment International's offices in the Hague, Netherlands. Since 2021, he is the Head of Communications & Localization at The 4 Winds Entertainment in the Netherlands.