Hey folks. So those of you who have been around the forums for a long time probably know me pretty well. I started on VGChartz way back in 2007 as a user and have since worn many hats around the site from moderator to community manager, reviewer, editor, and communications manager. I love this site, its users, and its staff, and one of my greatest regrets has been becoming so involved in the operations of the site that I lost touch with my community roots.
Luckily I should have a chance to get back to that soon. I'm heading up a new site for the almighty leader Brett called gamewise.co. Our staff has brought up the site on here before, but not in much detail. Basically it's going to be a community site, combining the features of a wikia (detailed game pages and information inclduing categories and subcategories), FAQ site (walkthroughs, individual game forums, cheats), and aggregator site (up-to-date news links from outside sources, review aggregates with an aggregate score and links to reviews, user scores and revivews).
This site will be community run, managed by only a small staff of DB Admins and Moderators and myself overseeing the whole thing. It's going to have great modern editing tools and tons of freedom in customizing each game page to fit the needs of that individual game. We want all the detail of Wikia but with far more user friendliness and all the features you could want for your daily game browsing needs.
With that we'll need a REALLY great community, and luckily there happens to be one just laying around over here to help give it a start. You guys. You'll all be given accounts on Gamewise, which will share your current VGC account screen names and passwords. Post counts and forum posts will not transfer unfortunately. We want Gamewise to be a fresh start for everyone. You can expect all the great community features you have on gamrConnect, with individual walls, game collections, wish lists, and achievements for posting and editing. Because the community is so essential, our staff, including myself, are going to be encouraged to be active in the forums, and the way the site evolves will be based heavily on your feedback and participation.
Gamewise will be my reintroduction into the community, and my chance to hopefully reconnect with the many friends I made here on VGChartz. I have posted sparingly over the last couple years on this site, but I still love it dearly. I hope you're all interested in and excited about the site. I'll be happy to answer any questsions you may have, and you can look forward to the full launch of gamewise.co in about a month. We're working diligently over the time between now and then to iron out the bugs and cram as many features in as possible, as well as flesh out 150 or so big game pages to make the site useful and fun right off the bat.
Thanks again,
Nick "Naz" Pantazis