I'm a second-year Cinema and Media Studies grad student at York University, specialising in video games and new media. I have been a media student for the past nine years, and have been a video gamer for the past twenty five years. Video games have clearly always captivated my interest, and when the medium started being taken seriously academically, an opportunity presented itself for me to merge my hobby with my discipline in a newly emerging field of study.
I am, admittedly, a console gamer, not having played PC games exstensively since the '80s. However, I am interested not only in the games themselves, but the culture which has sprung up around them. I am currently working to get a video game section added to the Sound and Moving Image Library at York University. I look forward to the readings ahead, as well as the developments sure to come over the summer.
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