About
Minus Marco (2026) is my professional brand name as a freelance video game journalist. Video games quickly became more than just a hobby in my childhood. Video games have shaped me into the person I am today and my aspirations.
I have a passion for journalism because I love writing about different viewpoints and accumulating all of it under one story. I come from a Mexican-immigrant household within Central California, where video games are undermined amongst minority communities and by the vast agriculture, higher education, and medical industries located here.
My mission as a video game journalist is to represent and inform a future for the underdogs, minority communities, and smaller aspects in or around the gaming industry by providing a platform for their voice and factual information to validate that future.
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If you are interested, please consider subscribing, following, or sharing my work with anyone who may be interested. Any support is truly appreciated!
My Goals
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Be a platform for voices or smaller aspects in or around the gaming industry.
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Help bridge the gap between the industry and smaller communities through education, information, and representation.
3
Nurture the health and future of the overall gaming community.
4
Cover the talented teams developing games, reviews, and other general industry topics.
Substack
My Substack will consist of my blogs, personal essays, reviews, opinion pieces, & articles that did not get picked up by media outlets. It will act as my main platform for content as a video game journalist.​
YouTube
My YouTube channel will consist of supplementary videos that further enhance or visually demonstrate my published stories. Event style videos will follow what I did for Anime Gaming Con, while other videos will fall along the lines of my personal essay video. ​
Podcasts
Coming Soon!
Social Media
The social media platforms Minus Marco can be found are Instagram, X, and TikTok. I am using social media mainly to promote my content posted on my Substack & YouTube channels. However, there are instances I will make content specific for this such as when I covered Anime Gaming Con.
Ideas Behind My Brand
The idea behind the name is that, as a journalist, the articles are never about the writer but of the story. It is "minus" Marco I want you to consider when reading my stories. My slogan, "The Expansion Pack To Your Game," refers to new content added later after a video game release, or also known as downloadable content (DLC). As a video game journalist, I am just that, where my stories are the main focus and I am only an expansion to their story.
My logo for Minus Marco symbolizes not only my growth as a video game journalist starting with nothing and working my way into the video game industry, but an example of life's journey. We all come from the bottom and climb up in our lives but there will be setbacks along the way. Those are the moments where we will learn, continue to move forward, and do better than before as indicated by the upwards arrow. Furthermore, the logo resembles what you see in a graph chart and this refers to the facts I aiming to inform as a journalist.
HUGE props to Sheng Xiong, creator of Ascend Designs, who helped me bring my brand to life. She did an amazing job and was excellent to work with. Please visit her page to view more of her work!
