GAMETECH: Leitrim native Alan Walsh is a Forza to be reckoned with

TWO years ago, Leitrim native Alan Walsh had never been on a plane. Then he joined the AR12 Gaming team, writes Ronan Jennings. 

Alan has since flown to London, Seattle, and Cologne. And it all started with engines of a different kind.

AR12 Gaming began life as a platform for Canadian Nick Andrew to talk about Forza, one of the most popular racing games in the world. In 2012, Nick started uploading Forza videos to YouTube and streaming gameplay live on Twitch. But it wasn’t until 2014, with the launch of Forza Horizon 2, that his channel started gaining fans in the hundreds of thousands — and one of them was Irish teenager Alan Walsh.