Paul is a dedicated gamer with more than thirty years of experience in gaming, from Colecovision to PS4 and TRS-80 to Win 10. He specializes in RPGs and strategy/simulation, with occasional ventures into FPS and platformers. Paul has been writing professionally for over two decades and has worked as a sailor, a bartender, a systems administrator, and a network engineer. Paul is passionate about writing about games and game culture; he advocates serious study of gaming and sees it as rapidly becoming the most influential and powerful form of entertainment media . Paul is currently a graduate student at the University of Chicago and is pursuing a degree in Cinema and Media Studies, with a focus on narrative structure in early open-world games.