Jay Homes

Author and Editor

Jay Homes has been covering gaming for over a decade, bringing a perspective shaped less by press events and more by the hardware on his desk and the balance sheets published in quarterly earnings calls. He started gaming on the PS2 and has owned every major platform since, which gives him a reference point most outlets lack when a new console generation arrives and publishers start adjusting their roadmaps accordingly.From 2016 to 2018 he ran an independent gaming publication, handling editorial direction, contributor management, and the full publishing cycle. That stint taught him the economics of games media as much as the craft of it. He left to pursue a senior role in revenue management at a multinational technology company in the travel sector, where he spent years building pricing models, reading market data, and understanding how large organisations make platform decisions under margin pressure.That background drives the coverage at JayRespawns.com. When a publisher cancels a live-service game after eighteen months, Jay reads the quarterly filing before writing the post-mortem. When a new handheld ships, he benchmarks it against the devices it is actually competing with, not the ones the manufacturer listed in the press release.His hardware focus sits at the intersection of portability and performance. He has followed the Windows handheld market since the first GPD devices and has tested more portable PC configurations than most mainstream outlets have reviewed combined. The Steam Deck changed the category and he covered that shift in real time.He games primarily on PC with a Ryzen 7 and RTX 3060 and has completed The Witcher 3 more times than he will publicly admit. RPG mechanics, progression systems, and the economics of in-game marketplaces are recurring threads across his work.He founded JayRespawns.com to cover gaming the way he wanted to read about it: with numbers, with context, and without the PR veneer.