I knew this would eventually happen and it would appear that the day is drawing near where someone is going to delete the Game Zero entry for on Wikipedia. I know there are problems with the entry and how it got created. I don’t consider it a promotion piece though, I consider it a supporting piece to other content within the Wiki where the magazine was relevant.

The key problem as I note on the talk page:

“The key problem here is that most of the web from 1994/1995 is no longer available. Some of the promotion we did within the newsgroups is still locatable, but none of the IRC based promotion we did is archived. Also, most if any of the early links to the magazine are no longer on the web anymore. Archive.org only has 1996 and on for the most part. I can personally vouch for all of these statements as can the entire staff of the magazine as we were pretty proud to be setting these milestones. Some notable examples of sites referencing Game Zero were the NCSA What’s New page which is now gone, as is Iway Magazine (which was an early Internet spotlight magazine) which ranked Game Zero as one of the top 25 gaming sites/top 500 on the web in 1996.”

The magazine was a staple read for most game studios, we were the only one of two non-traditional news publication invited to the Meridian 59 launch party thrown by Trip Hawkins after Studio 3DO bought them out (yes, I got to shake hands with Trip and talk with him for a few minutes). The other was a Canadian TV based videogaming program.

It is with great distress that I can’t locate supporting information about this magazine and I fear that Wikipedia’s shitty content protocols will consign the historical significance of this magazine to the delete bin.

I just added a new group of links to my sidebar called “Eye candy”. These are blogs that I have run across that do nothing more than collect series of artistic images and photography that are great to look through. Generally you can count on loosing an hour on any of them just going back through their archive of posts.

Not that many of you care, but I think it helps to document these things sometimes for perspective.

I have been involved in the publishing industry in some form since the late 80’s. In 1994 I launched the first video game review magazine on the web (Game Zero magazine). I designed and deployed several corporate Intranets and customer facing web sites over the course of the 90’s. I currently spend the majority of my time in a Director position for a Fortune 500 company based in Phoenix, Arizona where among my many tasks I speak to groups about issues related to Social Media/Enterprise 2.0 deployments (both technical and marketing) and have been promoting the use of these technologies.

Personally I have been involved in exploring online communications for marketing and community building going back to the very beginnings of the medium. Starting off in the modem based BBS communities of the late 80’s, transitional spaces such as CompuServe and Prodigy at the start of the 90’s and adopting nascent Internet platforms such as Newsgroups, IRC, the World Wide Web and many others.

Additionally I assist my wife with her video game development studio (TFPSoft, LLC) providing Project Management and IT assistance as well as other duties as needed.