Genres are both entirely made up, and also a very strong foundation to any work. On one hand, they can be restrictive, forcing you to fall into genre conventions in any game you make, but at the same ...

When video games first began, the only genre was sports, thanks to the very first title, Tennis for Two, in 1958. As time passed and technology progressed, the industry splintered into a multitude of ...

Mark has been thinking and writing about games since a Gameboy Pocket and a copy of Link's Awakening was first placed into his tender, seven-year-old hands. Since then, he snagged a creative writing ...

Daniel Trock is a Contributor at DualShockers specializing in PC games, lists, and reviews. He has been writing professionally since 2018 and covering games since 2020, with previous work spanning ...