Gaming Culture

Released in 1994 on the Super NES and developed by the Nintendo the game focuses once again on the pugilistic protagonist, Little Mac, ascending the ranks of the World Video Boxing Association to become the Grand Champion.

The yearly franchise is now a mainstay in the gaming industry. With the likes of Call of Duty cashing in each year Ubisoft and the Assassins Creed franchise followed suit. Both Assassins Creed 1 and 2 were games I thoroughly enjoyed with the latter being one of my favourite games to date.

  Only a few years ago, if a video game developer really wanted to make a game, they had to pitch their game to...

One of the most fun, yet least effective strategies in any real-time strategy game is turtling. Turtling refers to a player who wait for the late game to make any attacks, playing defensively early on with lots of defensive structures, while focusing on economic growth.

While Schilling himself may not have known too much about game development, I trusted that the combination of his significant fortune and such creative minds as Todd McFarlane and my then-favorite author, R.A. Salvatore would lead to great games. I was wrong.

Who knew that the best way to get me into video games was a magazine? Before 2007, video games were not a large part...