by Zack Stern May 15th 2008 12:30PM
Filed under: Meta (about Joystiq)
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.
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Lol, that is all.
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That's what I was thinking, heh...
though... if you have a moment to answer, why CF over SD? :o
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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).
That's like a porn mustache.
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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.
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"professional game blogging"
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Ross Miller and Zack Stern must have a "freeman-off".
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[jumps off a cliff]
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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.
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... actually, I can't grow facial hair like a real man, so you're right. We can't.
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welcome to the team dude
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