Almost everyone comes to college in hopes of finding their “people.” Many satisfy this search through classes, others through Greek life and some through video game controllers and a Nintendo franchise classic. Smash Club, Washington University’s gathering space for players of Nintendo’s Super Smash Brothers series, has been on campus for eight years and attracts […]

It was the first game of the season, and Washington University was already down 2-0 to New York University in a best of five. The third game would be a departure from the opening matches: two-on-two instead of the typical one-on-one.

Last week, I documented my team’s now-legendary victory in Week 1 of the European “‘Team Fortress 2’” League’s Community Highlander Tournament. It was a defining point in my career as a professional gamer, and I was harboring plans of dropping out of school to hone the art of the Demoman. Enter Week 2.

Over the past two years, as I’ve become savvy in buying PC games through digital distribution, I’ve come up with a brilliant excuse to buy cheap games: Subway’s $5 footlong.

On October 10 and 11, I and 15,000 other video game geeks made a pilgrimage to Anaheim, Calif. to attend the third BlizzCon, a convention held by one of the most successful computer game developers, Blizzard Entertainment.