Max Davis's blog

  In a large ballroom in Houston Texas, two men sit across from each other on a large stage. There is a large monitor between them and a crowd of jeering people behind them, they both are playing the game Street Fighter 6 on the largest stage Texas has to offer. The game comes down to the very last round but a Dallas native under the the gamer name of Coosco clutches out a close set to move on in the tournament.  They are both at a tournament called Texas Showdown, held in Houston, Texas every year. This is the biggest tournament in Texas and it means a lot to Coosco who has been working to win it all. He has been a pillar of the fighting game community and looks to become more than that during each tournament he travels to. From the beginning Micheal “Coosco” Henderson is a Player and community figure for the fighting game community from Dallas, Texas. He originally started playing fighting games as a kid but was inspired when he watched the largest Fighting game in the world...

  UNT theatre alumnus Comona Lewin is a Smash Brothers tournament commentator and anime English Dub voice actor. They have traveled the country as a Super Smash Bros commentator, becoming well known, and have started to take on bigger roles in anime voice acting that has taken him as high as playing one of the main supporting characters in a show that started in January. As a voice actor and commentator, they have been on a journey to establish themselves as a   What do you consider your job or position to be? As far as jobs go, I'm a voice actor. Almost all of it at current is done with Crunchyroll. So it's anime dubs. Yeah. And there's some independent voiceover work,  I'll do indie projects occasionally, you know, sometimes I'll be doing voiceover work for, you know, like a YouTube content, you know, recaps and stuff like that. In theory, I do commercial voiceover work as well. I haven't been hired for anything like super official before. And if I had to lean...

  On a quiet Wednesday in Denton, Texas, many people are going toward a large sign that advertises Denton’s resident bar arcade, Free Play. Families, couples, arcade enthusiasts and competitors fill the bar arcade as many enjoy the thrills of unlimited arcade games that Free Play Denton possesses.  Bartenders, managers, and cooks serve guests while many sit down and enjoy the atmosphere in the unique bar arcade. Cabinet technicians roam around making sure that the games are all in working order. In a corner of the downstairs arcade, many gather to talk, eat, drink, and play to their heart's content in a place many consider to be a Paradise for video gamers off of the Denton courthouse square. Free Play Denton’s location on the courthouse square is the second in Denton after the first closed on Hickory Street back in 2020. Freeplay Denton is one of the many locations for the bar arcade after the first location in Richardson opened in 2015. Since then Freeplay has brought a uniq...