Hi Everybody,
After spending 10 months with us running the PlayStation.Blog and providing you with your daily gaming news, I would like to say thank you and farewell to Jem Alexander, who has moved on from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. We will continue to keep you updated with as much content and breaking news as usual. Join me in wishing Jem all the best for his future endeavours. And here’s a few words from Jem for you…
Well guys, it’s been an amazing ride, but my time at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has now come to an end. Since I started here last year — the week before gamescom, where we announced the PS3 Slim, no less — it’s been my absolute pleasure to bring you the latest news from within the company, as well as from our third party partners. Since then we’ve announced and released some amazing games.
I truly appreciate the time you take out of your busy days to read the site, so as editor of the PlayStation.Blog I wanted every post to be about the games that you would want to play. Thankfully our first party line-up has been absolutely stellar, with Uncharted 2 sitting firmly among my top three games of all time, so we’ve had as many Heavy Rain, Modnation Racers, God of War III, Gran Turismo 5, Move and Uncharted 2 posts as our team could muster. Mostly because I’m as interested in hearing about them as I know you are — and don’t you worry, there are plenty more great first party titles coming that have yet to be announced.
As many of you know I was a blogger at Joystiq before I came here. I love games (I think that’s obvious), and I love talking, reading and writing about them. Although I’m moving on from the PlayStation.Blog, I won’t be moving on from that interest and I’m sure you’ll see me around.
As a Sony loyalist since the days of the original PlayStation, it’s been a pleasure and an honour working at Sony Computer Entertainment. From what I’ve seen, we Sony fans have a lot to look forward to over the next year or so and I’ve no doubt that the PlayStation.Blog will continue to be the number one place to hear each new announcement as it happens.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to play an obscene amount of ModNation Racers.
Wishing you all the best,Jem













43 CommentsAdd Yours
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 12:14 pm by BiosNova
Sad to see you go! Good luck in whatever you do!
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 12:17 pm by Flava18
Also sad to see you go Jem, keep in touch!
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 12:19 pm by Stipey
*wipes a tear*, I’ll make sure to wipe you out on the racetrack in Modnation … you know, so you won’t forget us. Sad to see you go, and have a good one!
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 12:19 pm by wotta
Good luck Jem, whatever your new role is
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 12:19 pm by GhostViper
Thats to bad. Good luck to you in the future
Thanks for the great time
Btw, you made me think it was something about the move
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 12:21 pm by samich2007
thanks for the updates!
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 12:21 pm by Suzzopher
Bye Jem
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 12:23 pm by CartBlanche
Good luck to you Jem!
Now isn’t this the second person in about 3 months that has left the blog? Or am I confusing blogs?
If there is a job going at SCEE to work on the blog, where do we send CVs?
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 12:23 pm by Jack-Bauer-89
Bye guv’na Playstation
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 12:25 pm by Apnomis
Goodbye Jem and good luck, as a blogger and a PlayStation fan I would have thought working at SCEE and running the official blog would have been your dream job – care to enlighten us who gave you a better offer?!
Will there be a direct replacement for Jem? Who’s going to host the EU blog video coverage now for example?
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 12:30 pm by Bearskopff
Bye bye, Mr Covert-Pie. You shall be missed.
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 12:42 pm by spatsnaz
Sad news, Jem. Good luck with whatever it is you tackle next!
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 12:51 pm by Brodiesan
Jem is one of the few people who “get” the industry and what we, the fans, want. This is a massive loss for Sony.
Best of luck Jem. I’m sure your future is bright whatever you decide to do.
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 12:51 pm by Jem Alexander
Thanks guys! Can’t say where I’m off to yet, but if you want to stay in touch I’m still on Twitter (@jemalexander) or you can shoot me an email ( jemalexander [at] me [dot] com ).
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 12:51 pm by V_Ben
Good luck Jem! best of luck wherever you go!
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 12:54 pm by Gamester101
All the best, you did a great job.
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 12:58 pm by fleinn
Mm. Another loss for Sony. Nothing else to be said, really. Good luck to you, Jem.
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 12:59 pm by Darkscorpius
Good luck with whatever you end up doing next Jem.
Hope to bump into you on the track in MNR!
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 1:00 pm by jonnytommy
Very best of Luck to you Jem!
Does this mean there’s a spot open at Sony Europe?
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 1:04 pm by Joe382
Ah Modnation Racers! Good bye Jem, I know you got good plans ahead of you.
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 1:14 pm by Bonyman
Sorry to see you leave Jem but i wish you the very best in the future!
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 1:18 pm by lcmnick
So where do I apply for the job?
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 1:20 pm by danielmccue
goodluck and farewell
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 1:22 pm by Snakeman94
farewell!!!
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 1:34 pm by mango1234
God bless America! D’:
Wait… <.<
Huh? O_o
Anyways… Good luck with your stuffs Jem! ^-^
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 1:39 pm by Slarth
Goodluck with whatever you decide to do, you’ll be missed!
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 1:48 pm by Lucreto
Good Luck Jem you will be missed and we all appreciated the hard work you have done.
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 2:29 pm by THC_PRITCHARD
jem if you are off to microsoft we will call you a traitor lol
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 3:34 pm by Dark-Twisted
Gonna miss ya mate!!
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 3:41 pm by Falcon1991
Aww, bye.
Hope you have fun with Modnation Racers and future brilliant games.
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 4:19 pm by Ragnarok-NZ
Man it’s kind of sad to see you go Jem, but alas, we all need to keep moving forward
I will be following you on Twitter though, so I guess I can still keep up with ya Mr.Alexander.
Happy Gaming.
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 5:05 pm by Orange_Wedge
Sad to see you go!! Thanks for your hard work Jem:D
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 5:35 pm by Silent_Gig
We hardly knew you as the Sony guy yet, you still had so much to offer at Sony! But alas everyone needs to stretch thier wings and do something different. I wish you the best on your next adventure!
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 6:44 pm by BalramRules
Just as Comment 33 had sed, stretch your wings and wave your friends goodbye, coz who knows, you might love ur new job MUCH more than this one, (as long as you don’t work for Microsoft, that is) =P
Jwkez! XD
Wherever you go, good luck X)
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 7:23 pm by JeffPS
It’s been great working with you, Jemothy!
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 8:14 pm by KAP
Good luck on what ever you do next.. see you on PSN soon dude
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 8:46 pm by DJMayhem
I’ll miss you, Jem!
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 9:04 pm by reakt
Jem – what happened? 10 months? Sorry to hear you’re leaving! I always wanted to work for SCEE and never got a chance to pass my CV on to you
Anyway, keep in touch dude! See you on PSN
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 9:31 pm by Panou
Best of luck, we’ll miss you
And thanks for all your work!
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 11:30 pm by mew_frenger
good luck 2 u
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Posted on 22 May, 2010 at 3:18 am by Tridentmorph
Sorry to see you go, all the best for the future. You will be missed.
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Posted on 22 May, 2010 at 8:17 am by DANNY3194
It’s a real loss with you leaving. I wish you the very best in the future Jem!
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Posted on 22 May, 2010 at 6:46 pm by SpiderMike_X
When Poland?????
Lol.
Bye Jem.
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