Rob Keyes-Founder & Builder

Staff Writer

Founder & Builder

January, 2009
Critics Choice Association, Bachelor of Commerce, Masters of Economics, The Game Awards & Canadian Game Awards, Business Elite's 40 Under 40 Canada
FPS, Star Wars, Rainbow Six: Siege
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About Rob Keyes

Rob Keyes manages content planning and processes, business development, social media, strategic partnerships, branding and PR for Screen Rant and consults for Collider, Comic Book Resources (CBR), and MovieWeb. You may know also him from various television and radio appearances covering the superhero beat, co-hosting the Screen Rant Underground and Total Geekall podcasts - and currently, PODCAST X - or founding and building The Best War Games. Find Rob on Twitter @rob_keyes or @failcube and if you need to reach either site, he's your guy rob [at] screenrant [dot] com.

Rob Keyes is Canadian, the longest serving member of Screen Rant, has a Masters Degree in Economics and degrees is marketing and computer science, is an Adjudicator and Judge for the Canadian Videogame Awards and The Game Awards, and is the world's best TIE Interceptor pilot. You can see and chat with Rob live in the evenings at twitch.tv/failcube or see his videos at youtube.com/failcube.

Industry Focus

Rob Keyes is Canadian, the longest serving member of Screen Rant, has a Masters Degree in Economics and degrees is marketing and computer science, is an Consultant and Adjudicator for the Canadian Videogame Awards, a Judge for The Game Awards, a member of the CAA and Canada's 40 Under 40, and is the world's best TIE Interceptor pilot. Rob makes frequent apperances on twitch.tv/failcube & youtube.com/failcube.

I set the fastest lap record driving a McLaren 720S at Silverstone Circuit for the Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw event.
I hit the highest G-Forces flying an Extra 330 stunt plane for the Top: Gun Maverick event.
I rode horses on a mountain during a thunderstorm, dove with sharks, and went on safari with National Geographic.
I won Valnet's Skeet shooting competition.

Favorite Games

‣ X-Wing: Alliance is the greatest Star Wars game.
‣ Battlefield and Call of Duty can both be awesome.
‣ X-Men Legends 1 and 2 are better than everything that came later.
‣ I miss the early StarCraft and Command & Conquer days.
‣ Morrowind is the best Elder Scrolls game.

Proudest Gaming Achievement

Setting up 16-player Xbox system link LAN parties in the summer with my friends, sending out custom newsletters to organize.

A gaming achievement that stands out is in playing Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike with my friend. We played the 2-player co-op mode based on Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader and the final Death Star level was so difficult that it took hours, both of us using maxed out speciality ships except for this mission where I had to fly the Millennium Falcon on the escape. When we finally achieved all the requirements for the gold medal, we not only got that, we got some special medal which represented us beating the internal devs' record. This was the ultimate and hard fought victory I will never forget.

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