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About Ian Charles McCollum
25-year-old Ian Charles McCollum is an alumnus from Temple University with a Bachelor of Arts in English. He is a writer and musician based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. All of his interests collide into one through the medium of video games. The world of gaming opened up to Ian at the age of 3 when his dad came home with a Nintendo 64 and a copy of Super Mario 64. Nintendo will always feel like home to Ian, but that does not mean he doesn't enjoy many other games on several different platforms such as Sony, Micosoft, and PC gaming.
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