| Gary Penn | |
| Birth Place: | Berkhamstead,[1] England |
| Occupation: | Head of Development at Denki |
Gary Penn is a former British games reviewer who wrote for Zzap!64[2] in the 1980s and is a video game industry veteran. He later was editor of The One from 1988 to 1990[3] and was Creative Director at DMA Design where he supervised the release of the first Grand Theft Auto game in 1997.[4] Penn has described the game as taking years to develop and almost being cancelled.[5]
Penn won the Games Media Legend award in 2007.[6]
As of September 2011, he is head of development at Denki.[4] Penn claims his magazine background helped him setting up a "Hollywood-style" studio system there:[2]
Penn is the author of the book Sensible Software 1986–1999.[7]