Question: how is The Writer and Official Xbox Magazine connected?

Context articles: X-One
Jon Hicks (journalist)
Official Xbox Magazine
The Writer
Official Dreamcast Magazine (US magazine)
Xbox Rewards
Xbox 360 system software
Greg Horn
System Link
Project Gotham Racing 3

XONE (formerly "X360") was a monthly magazine produced by Imagine Publishing in the United Kingdom.
 XONE was the UK's #1 selling independent dedicated Xbox 360 & Xbox One magazine, covering news, previews and reviews.
 The magazine's community and Xbox Live also featured heavily in the magazine.
Jon Hicks was the former editor-in-chief of the UK edition of the "Official Xbox Magazine" between 2007 and 2014.
 He wrote the first published review of Rockstar Games' "Grand Theft Auto IV".
Official Xbox Magazine (or OXM for short) is a monthly video game magazine which started in November 2001 around the launch of the original Xbox.
 A preview issue was released at E3 2001, with another preview issue in November 2001.
 The magazine was bundled with a disc that included game demos, preview videos and trailers, and other content, such as game or Xbox updates and free gamerpics.
 The discs also provided the software for the Xbox 360 for backward compatibility of original Xbox games for those without broadband and Xbox Live access.
 As of January 2012, OXM no longer includes a demo disc.
 In mid-2014, the U.S. version was merged into the UK version on the website, which lasted only a few months until Future plc announced that it was closing its website along with all the other websites that Future has published, including "Edge" and "Computer and Video Games".
 In February 2015, "OXM" and all of Future's websites were redirected into GamesRadar.
 The magazine itself continues to be published in the UK, US and Australia.
The Writer is a monthly magazine for writers published by Madavor Media.
The Official Dreamcast Magazine was a video game magazine for the Dreamcast published in the United States.
 The magazine's initial issue "0" was released in June 1999, a full 3 months before the launch of the system.
 This issue featured Sonic the Hedgehog on a black cover, along with the launch date and some of the system's unique features.
 The magazine then ran for twelve issues from the September 1999 Dreamcast launch to March/April 2001, shortly after Dreamcast was discontinued.
 Each issue came with a GD-ROM with demos of Dreamcast games.
 The final issue did not come with a disc.
 This was explained as Sega looking for a new way to distribute demos.
 The cancellation was apparently unexpected as the magazine promised more information about demo distribution in future issues and had a preview for the next issue where Phantasy Star Online was to be reviewed.
 Many of the staff went on to work for "Official Xbox Magazine".
Xbox Rewards was a Microsoft program designed to give both casual and hardcore players incentives to play games on the Xbox 360.
 This worked by having gamers register online for specific challenges, with completion then tracked by the system whenever the gamer was connected to Xbox Live.
 Gamers who successfully completed a challenge, such as earning a certain quantity of achievement points within a given time period, could earn physical or virtual rewards.
The Xbox 360 system software or the Xbox 360 Dashboard is the updateable software and operating system for the Xbox 360.
 It resides on a 16 MB file system and has access to a maximum of 32 MB of the system's memory.
 The updates can be downloaded from the Xbox Live service directly to the Xbox 360 and subsequently installed.
 Microsoft has also provided the ability to download system software updates from their respective official Xbox website to their PCs and then storage media, from which the update can be installed to the system.
Greg Horn is an American comic book artist best known for his work as a cover artist for Marvel Comics and various other publications.
 Working primarily as a digital painter, he is well known for his pinup paintings of female characters.
 In addition to comic book covers, his art has been featured in posters for Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics, video game magazines such as "Official Xbox Magazine" and "InQuest Gamer", and several covers and illustrations for the comic book news magazine "Wizard".
System Link is a form of offline multiplayer gaming on the Xbox and Xbox 360 gaming console over a LAN (local area network).
 A network switch and standard straight-through Ethernet cables may be used to link multiple consoles together, or two consoles can be connected directly.
 Connecting two Xbox consoles to each other without a switch requires a crossover cable, while Xbox 360 consoles can use standard cables.
Project Gotham Racing 3 (PGR3 for short) is an arcade-style racing game that was released with the launch of the Xbox 360 on November 22, 2005 for the US market and December 2, 2005 in Europe, and was released on January 12, 2006 in Japan.
 Developed by Bizarre Creations, it is the third installment in the "Project Gotham Racing" series.
 "Project Gotham Racing 3" was rated by "Official Xbox Magazine" (OXM) to be Xbox 360 "Game of the Year" (2005).
 OXM also rated it "Best 1st Person (Not Shooter) of the Year", because of its realistic inside-car view.