Roger Altizer is a former staff writer for Lifewire, where he wrote extensively about video games in general and PlayStation in particular for seven years. In addition to teaching game design and development, Altizer has given numerous presentations on gaming at academic conferences and received a grant from Microsoft to research the use of XNA in the classroom.
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Altizer has been involved in video games for some time, as a tester, journalist, and lecturer in the field. He has attended numerous academic and industry events. For many years, Altizer was a video game professor at the University of Utah, where he both studied and taught video game theory and design. He is now involved in the medical aspects of using video games as alternative medicine for pain management.
Altizer received his doctorate in communications from the University of Utah.
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