Richard Leadbetter is the founder of Digital Foundry and a former Technology Editor for Eurogamer.net. He started work in the games business in 1990 on Computer and Video Games magazine, moving online in 2004 by launching Digital Foundry. The rest, as they sometimes say, is history.
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