[1] He is best known for launching and editing many successful titles in assorted markets during the 1990s, mostly on the subjects of computer and video games, and film and television.

Developing an interest in journalism, and magazines in particular, he was film editor of the University of Nottingham student newspaper, Impact, before getting a job at Emap in London in February 1988, as staff writer on Computer and Video Games magazine.

[citation needed] In addition, Bielby spent six months in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA, launching the US edition of PC Gamer (1994), and some time in Munich, Germany in the late 1990s, helping set up Future's German subsidiary.

[6][7] Death Ray was a science fiction and fantasy title,[6] created as a rival to Future Publishing's market-leading SFX.

Matt contributed to Future titles again, editing an SFX spin-off called Comic Heroes.