Meet the Team: Zack Stern

In the world of professional game blogging, the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important groups: the bloggers who investigate the stories and readers who make silly comments. These are the first group's stories.

Name: Zack Stern
Job Position: Contributing Editor
Past Experience/Education: I worked as an editor at Gamers.com in its (brief but glorious) 2000 heyday, and have since contributed to dozens of technology and gaming publications. Recent articles have appeared in PC World, PC Gamer, Maximum PC, Official Xbox Magazine, Mac|Life, Wired Test, Make, and many more.
Life outside of the 'Stiq: I'm an improviser, photographer, videomaker, and cook. Those all blend together into a delicious, sometimes metaphorical hooch.
Why I'm blogging: I'm entrenched in old media but want to maintain a presence online. The two styles inform each other; knowing their similarities and differences makes me better at both.
First game experience: I used to play Chinese checkers at my grandparents' house growing up, and the pinball machine at my mom's ad agency was better than day care.
Favorite games: Prince of Persia, Myth, Deus Ex, Pikmin, Kururin Paradise, Portal, Rock Band
Compact Flash or SD? Compact Flash.

There's more to come every Tuesday and Thursday.

Reader Comments (40)

Why is Rose Miller posting this instead of Zack Stern?

Who is Rose Miller? Does the Joystiq team have a new female member?

Viagra

Lol, that is all.

*Ross

=(

Baltar?

@fischju (in case the reply system breaks)

That's what I was thinking, heh...

Seriously, that was my first thought as well. Spitting image.

salud', Zack!

though... if you have a moment to answer, why CF over SD? :o

my guess is, since hes a photographer, he prefers the CF since it is faster for taking pictures.

I guess that's possible...

I prefer SD since it's smaller in form factor (Compact Flash is hardly compact anymore...) and cheaper (looking on Newegg, I can get a 1GB SD for $5 and a 1GB CF for $8).

Not a big deal in the difference between Compact Flash and Secure Digital. (Although the pro-DRM buzzing surrounding SD made me initially dislike it; that stuff fizzled out.) The biggest reasons I like CF is that my DSLRs use it, and it's bigger than SD. CF is small enough for me--especially relative to a DSLR--and I don't want anything smaller.

No way! that f*cking mustache is not real, right?

That's like a porn mustache.

Dude, thats a Niko mustache all the way.

Vlad*

What was your first video game experience. You dodged the question! C'mon, give up the goods!!!

Whats your Duke? Mine is Super Mario Bros/Duckhunt. I remember my friend getting the NES when it first came out and I fell in love. Deep love, lol. I guess thats why I will forever be a Mario whore. 4-EVERRRR :(

Mine was pitfall on Intellivision

My brother and I BEGGED my parents for an NES, but Noooooo. We got a used Atari 2600 from a garage sale and box full of games. I still enjoyed hits like Popeye, pacman, pong, frogger and there was a shmup I loved but dont rmember the name. Later on that year on Christmas we got the NES with Mario/Duckhunt and Track and Field with the pad. MY GOD it was glorious...

The ones that standout from the start for me are Adventure & Breakout on the Atari 2600 as well as Astrosmash, Pitfall, Tron and Stampede on the Intellivision. Those are the games I started with playing a whole lot of.

I've got the machines and most those games now too.

Yet my fondest memory was when my dad got me a NES when I got ill. I played the heck out of Duck Hunt & Mario.

Makes me feel young, my first experience was Super Mario 64, and that was three years after the fact, in 1999

Ah, a Compact Flash man! You have my heart, good sir.

I wonder if the kid playing the DS knows theres a guy with a pedofile stash standing beside him

Pick out the oxymoron in this sentence fragment:

"professional game blogging"

They get paid to blog about games...that makes it a profession.

*obligatory who gives a fuck about these people statement*

*obligatory reply to the "who gives a fuck about these people question." Who gives a fuck about you?*

*obligatory 3rd person agreeing with the reply and commenting on what ludwig's picture should be*

FERNANDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BUUUUUURRRRNNNNNNNNNNN

Wow, that was meant for above. I lose. :(

Somebody get this man a crowbar!

ok, it's a official--

Ross Miller and Zack Stern must have a "freeman-off".

THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!!!

[jumps off a cliff]

Make magazine? What an excellent publication! I'm kinda interested in which/what kind of articles you wrote for it.

1) PHOTOSHOPPED! (and Simpsons did it)

2) Kururin Paradise, huh? I think I played that before, but wasn't it only released in Japan? I know the first one was released in Europe, but I don't think the sequel was. Fun game, though.

Please now we can has Ludwig?

Come on now, you guys can't *all* look like Gordon Freeman.

WANNA BET?!

... actually, I can't grow facial hair like a real man, so you're right. We can't.

Seriously, Compact Flash? My Zen Vision: W supports it but...I don't like it.

Baltar!

anyone else think the rookie looks a little like gordon freeman?
welcome to the team dude

Meet the Team: Zack Stern

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