Miles Jacobson stumbled into the games industry by chance. As a music promoter on a small salary during the Britpop boom of the 1990s, he would often swap gig tickets for video games.
Once, he offered tickets for a Blur concert — the band was represented by his company, Food Records — to staff at Domark, makers of the Championship Manager game. In return, he received a free tester copy of the second version of the hit game. He had been a fan of the first but had an eye for detail and would fax glitches he had spotted to Paul and Oliver Collyer, the brothers who invented it.
He went on to work for them.
“I’ve managed to merge all of my hobbies into
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