NOTE: This article was originally published on Gamasutra on 09/15/2015. Immersion. It’s the state of consciousness that we feel when we are deeply engaged and involved in a certain activity. In the case of video games, it is...

NOTE: This article was originally published on Gamasutra on 08/27/2015. Picture this: you are a game developer, and you are currently working on a shooter. Obviously you are going to design weapons that pack a punch, program the AI so ...

NOTE: This article was originally published on Gamasutra on 08/25/2015. What’s the thing you remember most from that game? That’s the question I always ask myself when I put down the controller and turn off my TV to do some...

Ever since its widespread popularization in the early 1990s, the first-person shooter has developed a reputation for delivering heart-pounding experiences in which the avatar is dropped in a virtual space awash with enemies, and t...

NOTE: This article was taken directly from my academic paper, “Effort Upon Effort: Japanese Influences in Western First-Person Shooters”, which was originally published on December 17, 2015. In the early 2000s, the Japanese governmen...

Fellow members of the gaming community, I would like to take this moment to reveal a project of mine that has been in the making for a very long time. For the past several weeks, I’ve been hard at work on a research paper that covers a t...

In case you didn't know, classes are about to start in a matter of weeks, which means that I'll be heading back to college as a junior at the end of this month. Unfortunately, that also means that I won't really be able to post blog articl...

  A lot of shooters try to empower the player by giving him/her an arsenal of realistic and/or fictional weapons, and letting them loose on a battlefield/arena chock-full of hostile NPCs that are all too happy to riddle you w...

I’ll be honest with y’all: I love listening to music in my spare time. It’s the kind of thing that gets me pumped when I’m working out on the elliptical trainer, and that keeps me entertained and busy while staring ...

IF YOU HAVE YET TO READ MY FIRST ARTICLE, THEN FOLLOW THIS LINK: http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Michformer/why-anime-first-person-shooters-can-be-a-match-made-in-gaming-heaven-297489.phtml In this edition, I’m going to be looki...

Before we begin, let me make one thing perfectly clear: I LOVE anime and first-person shooters. In fact, I've been watching and playing them respectively since my pre-teens, and I've always been captivated by the former's depth (when done r...