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  • Announcing Nohighscores.com, from yours truly and some of my Gameshark colleagues

Announcing Nohighscores.com, from yours truly and some of my Gameshark colleagues

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Announcing Nohighscores.com, from yours truly and some of my Gameshark colleagues
There Will Be Games

Surprise, it's a new Web site that I've cooked up along with Gameshark EIC Bill Abner and some of our esteemed colleagues, Brandon Cackowski-Schnell, Todd Brakke, and Danielle Riendeau.

It was officially announced tonight on Jumping the Shark (which I missed the recording of so I could go help a friend of mine out with a project for his board game design class at SCAD), and we're now live and bursting with content.  Our goal is to make Nohighscores.com a no-nonsense, more mature gaming site so don't expect cosplay pictures, Legend of Zelda parody art, and all that crap like you might find elsewhere. We're mostly older and wiser, but Bill nixed my suggestion of calling the site Oldgamegeek.com right out of the gate.

We will be covering board games as well. Bill has already posted his Top Ten Board Games list, and he takes a jab at me for dissuading him from Imperial- even though almost every game on the list is one I either recommended to him or he asked me about.  Right now, the only board games material other than that is the Awful Green Things announcement which you've read here first.  In the future, I'm likely going to be documenting some of the exploits of both Swamp Castle and the Hellfire Club there in more detail.

Of course, there will be tons of video game material and I plan on doing more reviews there beyond what I'm already doing for Gameshark. I've just posted my review of Dead Space 2 since Bill did our write-up back at home base.

This is an independent site, we're not affiliated with Gameshark at all- we just all happen to work there.  My regular muckracking will continue to happen weekly at Cracked LCD as well as here as usual. Sorry.

I think it's going to be fun. Stop by and register, leave some comments. Nohighscores.com, obviously.

There Will Be Games
Michael Barnes (He/Him)
Senior Board Game Reviews Editor

Sometime in the early 1980s, MichaelBarnes’ parents thought it would be a good idea to buy him a board game to keep him busy with some friends during one of those high-pressure, “free” timeshare vacations. It turned out to be a terrible idea, because the game was TSR’s Dungeon! - and the rest, as they say, is history. Michael has been involved with writing professionally about games since 2002, when he busked for store credit writing for Boulder Games’ newsletter. He has written for a number of international hobby gaming periodicals and popular Web sites. From 2004-2008, he was the co-owner of Atlanta Game Factory, a brick-and-mortar retail store. He is currently the co-founder of FortressAT.com and Nohighscores.com as well as the Editor-in-Chief of Miniature Market’s Review Corner feature. He is married with two childen and when he’s not playing some kind of game he enjoys stockpiling trivial information about music, comics and film.

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Michael Barnes
Senior Board Game Reviews Editor

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