Present / Staff
BXB Director
At the same time he was involved in an internet start up business from conception which became Price Engines (www.priceengines.co.uk) and in 1999 the company became a full-time job when a large PLC bought a controlling share. During his two years with Price Engines Ashley worked as Co-Techincal Director and designed over 400 websites including B&Q's website (www.DIY.com). Price Engines has become extremely successful and produces complex shopping carts for a wide range of business websites.
Ashley managed a team of programmers during his time at Price Engine and also dealt with the technical strategy of the company. He left Price Engines and started his own business in web design and hosting called dot.one which runs a variety of websites including BXB.
Ashley brings a wealth of experience to the site including graphic design skills, programming expertise and management experience. On top of this Ashley has been into console gaming since 8-bit consoles; he bought an Xbox on launch day and has been included in closed Beta Testing on Project IGI 2 and Xbox Live.
BXB Editor and LAN Manager
Michael joined his local newspaper 'The Coalville Times' at 18 as a Trainee News Reporter after completing A-levels in English Literature, English Language and Drama. After a few months with the paper Michael instigated the relaunch of the paper's Entertainment section "Weekending" and worked with local companies to provide a weekly music review column. Michael also wrote reviews of albums, videos, DVDs, books, film, local theatre, live events, games as well as a selection of features on hobbies, TV shows and historic sites around North West Leicestershire. Michael also did freelance work for clubbing website www.gurn.net as an album reviewer.
Michael was promoted to Reporter in 2001 and also worked on news reporting until 2002 when he gave up the role of Entertainment Reporter and was promoted to Lead Reporter during which he landed a series of exclusives for the paper.
He then moved onto North West Leicestershire District Council working as an Assistant PR Officer. During his time with NWLDC he successfully worked in partnership with the local press to present a series of interviews aimed at personalising the Council; he contributed to the forming of the Council's Media and Communications Strategy and relaunched, researched, wrote, designed and edited the Council's monthly internal newsletter.
Michael has since left North West Leicestershire District Council and began to pursue a career in retail with Tesco, allowing him to work on BXB at the same time. Michael's experience on both sides of the media fence as well as a wealth of writing experience and management skills have been pivotal in helping him in his role.
As well as this, Michael has been into gaming since 8-bit consoles and has enjoyed playing on a wide range of platforms and titles, with a keen interest in the gaming industry. He also bought an Xbox on launch day and took part in the UK Xbox Live Test Drive.
BXB News Editor
Bill has been working in the retail side of the games industry for almost 9 years, working with both console and PC software and hardware. He also is a field engineer with a medium sized PC manufacturer as well as experience working in a busy games store.
He joined the Britxbox community in 2003, and after posting many Xbox, and more recently Xbox 360 related news items to our forum, was asked to join the team as a News Writer in August of 2005.
Since then Bill has shown to be a highly competant writer and has helped BXB secure further support from a number of publishers. When the previous News Editor left his role, Bill was the first choice to take the relatively new post of BXB's News Editor.
BXB Reviews Editor
Andy has always had a big interest in video games, having been involved since the days of the Spectrum. He has since owned almost every console released, his favourite being the Xbox.
Andy is a house husband and as such, is able to devote a lot of time to Britxbox. He started out on BXB as a regular user and soon after joined the Moderating Team; he then began writing reviews and joined the Editorial team. Andy has been instrumental in the smooth running of BXB, putting in hours of work into keeping our Gamespaces up to date and writing a large percentage of the site's reviews.
Andy was given the role of Reviews Editor in July 2005 after showing an incredible dedication to BXB and continues to contribute regularly and positively to BXB. Andy visited Gamestars live in London Docklands last year and provided coverage to Britxbox. He has done Beta testing for Xbox Live and Earth and Beyond (on PC)
Lead Artist
Craig took on his role at Britxbox.co.uk in January 2006 when we realised that we needed support and expertise in the area of graphic design and art. Craig's job is to produce the graphical artwork; ranging from review banners to identity logos, to help unify BXB.
Away from Britxbox Craig has been commissioned by many other companies to produce different graphics: Website design, Identity logo design, print design and he can work towards the individual needs of the client to produce a piece of artwork in which they are happy with.
Craig shows a very versatile style of work and utilises both art and photography as well as computer technology to create his designs. Since joining BXB, Craig has shown himself to be a competent and professional artist and has created a range of banners and artwork for the site. Some of which you can see Here