After years of anonymity, gaming's most famous but least recognisable voice has broken cover to chat PEGI 18, AI acting, and his €200 paycheque

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One of Josh's first memories is of playing Quake 2 on the family computer when he was much too young to be doing that, and he's been irreparably game-brained ever since. His writing has been featured in Vice, Fanbyte, and the Financial Times.

If you've ever watched a game trailer in Europe, you've almost certainly heard Richard Wells' voice. He is, in his own words,"the guy who says 'PEGI 18' on all of your video games," which is to say he's the smooth baritone that lets you know a game's age rating right before its trailer plays; the British equivalent of that ESRB guy who says"" before E3 trailers.

The most recent video on Well's TikTok consists of him showing off the original studio recordings of each PEGI rating—a kind of videogame trailer equivalent of unearthing the Dead Sea Scrolls—and it's, well, just as understated as you expect. A man in a booth running through some lines, unaware he was about to etch himself indelibly on our collective psyche for years, maybe decades to come.

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