About Wayne

Wayne Santos spent over a decade living and working in Southeast Asia. During that time he wrote for advertising agencies, television production houses and magazines, working with clients like FHM, Maxim, Disney and Discovery. He also wrote three novels SHIFT, BROKEN PRESENCES and THE PALE SUMMER.

He has also given commentary on BBC Asia as a gaming industry observer, lectured at tertiary institutions on game journalism, and written scripts for documentaries about gaming in Asia. He has attended E3 as well as gaming events in Asia and has interviewed personalities in the industry such as Ragnar Tornquist, Jay Wilson, Bill Roper and Jonathan Mak.

He now continues to write and live in Toronto, Canada with his wife and two cats, contributing to interactive entertainment publications, writing comics and working on new novels and interactive projects.

In his spare time, he enjoys inhaling pop culture in novel, film, comic and videogame form, and spends an unhealthy amount of time pretending to play rock music with plastic instruments.

Education

Highschool Diploma

Bachelor's Degree, Arts, English Major

Work Experience

DVG Whartons: Advertising Copywriter 1996-1998

Interruption Television: Writer/ Producer 1998-1999

FringeFilms: Writer/Producer 1999-2002

The Right Angle: Writer/Producer 2002-2003

Playworks Magazine: Editor 2003-2004

GameAxis Magazine: Staff Writer 2004-2006

Consoles owned and/or played

Owned:

Atari 2600, Atari 600XL, Amiga, Genesis, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Playstation, Playstation 2, GameCube, Playstation Portable, Nintendo DS, Playstation 3

Played:

Intellivision, Colecovision, Vectrex, VIC-20, Apple II, Commodore-64, Nintendo Entertainment System, TurboGrafx 16, Neo-Geo, Jaguar, Nintendo 64, Saturn, DreamCast, Xbox, Xbox 360, Wii

Favorite Games

Shadow of the Colossus, The Longest Journey, Psychonauts, Okami, Final Fantasy VII, Grand Theft Auto series, Metal Gear Solid series, Wipeout series, Tomb Raider series, Shin Megami Tensei series, Persona series, Xenosaga series, Resident Evil series, Katamari series, Ace Combat series, Suikoden series