Steve McNeil

In September 2018, it was announced that Steve had written his first book and that it will be released on 19 April 2019 by the publishers Headline Publishing Group. McNeil's book, Hey! Listen!, focuses on video games starting with the humble origins of games like Pong, through arcade cabinets and eventually home consoles, leading up to Sony's launch of the groundbreaking PlayStation. The book covers not only games but their developers, artists and writers who poured endless energy (whilst making some hilarious mistakes along the way) into satisfying a generational desire for new and unique, but also accessible, entertainment.

In March 2018, as a reward to supporters on Patreon, he began a new podcast called Let's Do A Gaming! where he talks about games and gaming and has a guest on each episode from the worlds of videogames or comedy.

Wi-Fi Wars itself has now branched out with the creation of The Video Game Game Show Show by Steve McNeil and Rob Sedgebeer. Launched on 24 October 2017, The VGGSS works similarly to Wi-Fi Wars, except with celebrity team captains and some of the stages of competition replaced with a head-to-head match between the two team captains. Notable team captains have included James Acaster, Phil Wang and Ed Gamble amongst others. The rest of the program follows the same format and people can play along both in the audience and from around the world, using cellphones and streaming.

In July 2017, Steve featured on an episode of gaming podcast That King Thing where he spoke about how Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit came about, as well as some of his own experiences in gaming.

His next project was Wi-Fi Wars where instead of comedians being the players on stage, the audience including two team captains play the game using their smartphones. This uses the technology from Go 8-Bit and advances it for mass playing. The new show began when the duo appeared on the BBC's coverage of the 2014 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. Wi-Fi Wars was and is still used as a way of road testing technology for future presentations. As part of Wi-Fi Wars, on 22 July 2016 Steve became a Guinness World Record holder in the category of "Most people playing a single game of Pong".

On 18 September 2015, a new podcast launched which featured McNeil as part of its four-man group. Game Friends launched to number two on iTunes 'Games and Hobbies' chart, as well as 'videogames'.

Also in 2015, he was nominated for a Games Media Award for his podcast Twomorewhiteguys, as well as Videogame Nation which Steve contributed to.

McNeil began his career as a contributor to Ginx TV in 2013, and from 2014 to 2016 he was promoted to guest host for some of their programming. He left Ginx TV in 2016 to co-create Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit alongside Sam Pamphilon, initially proposed as weekend fun but later turned into a mix of comedy and videogames roadshow. Comedians such as Sara Pascoe and Marcus Brigstocke have participated as guest members of either Team McNeil or Team Pamphilon. The show aired for three seasons on Dave; however, in September 2018, McNeil discovered on Twitter that the show had been cancelled.