Jesse Collins

Background

About Jesse Collins

Jesse, known also as Arthur, started his game career by taking a chance at 19 years old, starting a small game community, and by using his entire savings to travel to Philadelphia for the VGXPO 07, where he met Bill "The Game Doctor" Kunkel, Hal Halpin of the ECA (Whom he had done some minor work for in the past), Tommy Tallarico (Composer), and Lorne Lanning (Oddworld Inhabitants). From there, he only grew. Afterward, becoming the Ad Executive of J2Games, Arthur has been developing his skills and knowledge in the gaming and journalism industries, as well as honing networking abilities, having gotten access to the Game Developers Conference 08 and 09 as journalist and advertising consultant In recent years, Arthur has been the Editor in Chief at Twin Galaxies Editorial (managed by Greenlit Content) before sliding into the creative strategy team at Greenlit Content as a Senior Manager and Project Manager. Over the past few years, he started a business, running a brick-and-mortar local gaming shop called Geek Side. They specialize in vinyl collectibles, trading card games, anime, and tabletop games. In the past, he was the Owner of We The Gamers and The Geek Side, Ad Executive for J2Games.Com, the St. Petersburg, FL Chapter President for the ECA, Account Executive at Themepark Studios, PR rep for the Games and Media Expo 09, as well as a freelancing game journalist and PR consultant across several games and companies over the years. Specialties: Journalism, Creative Writing, Public Relations, Marketing for Indie Developers, Writing, Editing, Game History Knowledge. Generally anything geeky.