Staff | Culture of Gaming

Anthony Dennis

Website Owner & Manager

Anthony is the Owner of Culture of Gaming and he spends his days studying, gaming and working on the site. Anthony has worked for the past 7 years in the Video Game journalism industry and has worked for over 30 different sites in that time.

Taylor Evans

Media Manager & Website Co-ordinator

Taylor has been gaming for as long as he could hold a controller. He has hosted gaming oriented podcasts for four years, and has even started to dabble in writing about anime. Taylor almost enjoys discussing games more then playing them, and when not watching anime or playing games, Taylor can be found going off on rants about the technical details behind the games.

Sean Scalise

Graphic Designer

Sean is a graphic designer for Culture of Gaming, and likes to spend his free time playing video games, watching movies, and video/photo editing. Some of his favorite video games include: Super Mario World, Super Smash Bros., Uncharted, and Spyro the Dragon. You can find him on Twitter @Nerd_Awakens and on Twitch as nerdawakens.

John Powell

Community Manager

John is the Managing Editor at Culture of Gaming. He is a veteran Canadian entertainment journalist with 20+ years of experience. He is currently covering Big Brother USA, Big Brother Canada and Survivor for Corus and is the co-creator, editor, contributor at SLAM! Wrestling. Check out his comic book Cover 2 Cover blog.

Matthew. L Garcia

Writer & Streamer

HE STREAMS... AND STUFF!

Chelsea McPherson

Editor

Chelsea McPherson is a young self-published author with a perchance for writing dark fantasy or fanfiction. When she's not writing or studying she's playing games or reading

Stephen Till

Community Manager

Husband, Father, Teacher, and Gamer. Stephen Till is a Community Manager and Contributor for Culture of Gaming, and previously served similar roles and responsibilities at Destuctoid. A long time follower of gaming journalism (inspired by the great Jim Sterling himself), Stephen follows most major gaming publishers, and keeps up with trending anime as well.

Ahmed Lulat

Staff Writer

Covers all things nerdy, which if you're reading this, makes perfect sense. When he isn't raging on the PlayStation, you can catch him following the mighty Liverpool FC and re-watching Scrubs for the umpteenth time.

Kevin Alvarez

Staff Writer

Kevin is a Staff Writer at COG. He plays a wide variety of video games and writes reviews, editorials, and news. He's a huge transformer fan with a nice collection of Transformers figures of all shapes and sizes. Kevin loves all things geeky and is always seeking to expand his knowledge of various crafts and activities

Joel Yap

Staff Writer

I love writing anything, as long as I got my fingers on the keyboard. I enjoy games, stories, and the occasional good movie as well.

Mike Nigrelli

Staff Writer

I’ve been writing almost as long as I’ve been playing video games. I also do standup and improv. The game that made me realize that video games could be more than just a toy, was Metal Gear Solid 2.

Mike Sol

Staff Writer

How’s it going everyone, I’m Mike Sol and I am one of many contributing writers to Culture of Gaming. You can usually find me playing some of the latest games to come out, although I tend to avoid anything related to sports or strategy. I enjoy the big three and all the games on them but my main console is the Xbox One. I don’t have a specific preference in gaming, but any game that has fun action and beating up waves of enemies is usually my cup tea. If you ever want me to game with me or want me to write about something of interest, feel free to hit me up. I hope to have a personal blog set up soon, but my loyalties shall remain with CoG.

John Hansen

Staff Writer

When John was 4 years-old, his mom bought a Nintendo 64 with Super Mario 64 and the rest is history. Since that day, John has fallen in love with countless gaming franchises and has dived deep into the varied experiences of the many different gaming worlds. Nowadays, John has a beautiful daughter of his own who loves Minecraft, Pokémon, and Lego games. John spends most of his gaming time playing Overwatch or whatever new game has caught his eye at the time. Outside of gaming, John has just finished his online classes for Ashford University where he completed a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication. He has also started a Youtube gaming channel and is teaching himself how to edit videos and co-hosts a small hour long gaming podcast called the Pixel Street Podcast. With future goals of becoming a professional video game journalist, you can find John's blogs on multiple websites.

David White

Retro Podcaster/Writer

David primarily writes retro video game content for Culture of Gaming, he is almost exclusively a retro gamer and a collector of classic games and video game consoles. He fancies himself a bit of a video game historian with a deep love for video game and arcade game history and so is the host and creator of Culture of Gaming's Retro Rumble Podcast. He comes from Wales in the United Kingdom though absolutely loves the country and culture of Japan. He is a professional poker player and often listens to The Cure, metal, blues or jazz. When not, he spends most of his time gaming, hunting for classic video games, reading, practising the guitar, watching anime, sci-fi or horror movies and cooking Japanese food.

Jacob Scott

News Writer

I'm a 19-year-old from Australia, who loves movies, tv shows, and games! I'm passionate about writing, and I'm really interested in gaming news.

Braydon Sowell

News Writer

I have been playing games since I was 4, starting out on the legendary N64. I grew into PlayStation and have kept up with Nintendo and PlayStation. I have now mostly dedicated my time to PC. I am very intrigued by MMO's like ESO, certain teamwork FPS games like Overwatch, any RPG like Final Fantasy or any super competitive game that fits any of those playstyles. To express my love and passion for gaming, I had decided to write about it. I'm very fortunate to have this opportunity as a writer with Culture of Gaming to show my passion through words. Besides gaming and writing, I am going to college full time as a music education major. My primary instrumental focus is saxophone and developing my piano experience. I enjoy listening, writing, and playing music, and can't wait to start my career in it.

Nicholas Micevski

Editorial Writer

Howdy there folks! My name is Nicholas, I’m 19 and I love all things gaming related all the way down under in the treacherous lands known as Western Australia. One thing you should know about me is that I’m the biggest Lord Of The Rings fan out there. I have a deep passion for both writing and gaming so having some sort of writing career in the video game industry would be a dream come true. My favourite game of all time has to be without a doubt Shadow Of The Colossus

Joel Campos

Staff Writer

At the young age of 3 years old, Joel started playing NBA Jam on his father’s Sega Genesis. That's right, he was a Sega kid. With a degree in Architecture, he is now working as an Engineer in the great city of Chicago, IL. With gaming as a hobby for the majority of his life, Joel finds writing, podcasting, and streaming games a fun outlet for his thoughts on the gaming industry today. As a co-host for a small podcast titled The Pixel Street Podcast, he gets together with friends to talk about all the news happening in the gaming world. Some of Joel’s favorite game franchises are Halo, Gears of War, Madden, MLB The Show, Fallout, Sonic, Mario, and Splatoon.

Lee Holmes

News Writer

Hey. I'm an amateur photographer and video producer. Some of my hobbies include Journalism, Making videos, taking photos, and listening to music or a podcast. I hope to one day make journalism a job and hopefully, this is where my journey to that begins!