I’m somewhat of a pariah at work because I don’t really enjoy PC gaming. I’m not a big FPS player – I suck at Quake and older games in that genre tend to give me motion sickness any day.

I suppose the first thing that would come to your mind is as to why I even work in the video gaming industry?

Group Gaming!

I love group gaming. I love watching a group of people huddled around a TV with a console attached and trying to beat the crap out of each other. Call me old fashioned, but as much as there is to X-BOX Live and other such services, I cant seem to get enough of people getting all emotional together in front of a TV.

My brother and his wife spent a lot of time playing Sega Tennis for the PS2. Their marriage literally relied on it. If they had a conflict or a fight, they’d take it out with that game. And after going through multiple copies that were either lost or scratched beyond disc legibility, they had to resort to ordering copies from places as far as Taiwan.

My friends and I play Burnout 3 (X-Box) or Shadow of Rome (PS2) ever weekend at my place. We order pizza, get some beer and have Burnout ‘Crash Parties’ or contests of macho might on the ‘Gladiator level’ for Shadow of Rome – trying to prove to the other guy who can earn the most salvos (points).

This is exactly why I love to play games. I love to play games with other people. I hate playing games where it’s me on a PC all by myself with either my headphones or a 5.1 sound system vs. some other Tom, Dick, or Harry on a LAN or other network.

For me – it’s too aloof.

And that’s not what providing entertainment is about.