Author: Matthew Arcilla

Matthew was abandoned in Virra Mall in the early 90s and subsisted on a diet of sugar cane juice, Magoo’s Pizza and DOS games. After successful rehabilitation at the turn of the century, he managed to become a veteran editor of various online and print publications. His coverage of videogames has appeared in GMA Network News, 8List, Too Much Gaming and Sirus Gaming.  

It’s been nearly 70 years since the first video game was revealed to the world and it’s been a wild crazy ride. While there aren’t nearly enough inches of column space available to me to tell you about the long history of video games, there is at least enough to dwell on the epic highs and lows of the past two decades. Video games have long been on par with other entertainment industries when it comes to attention and revenue, but it wasn’t until the twenty-first century that they began to outpace them. The rise of digital publishing and distribution…

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