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New Gaming Face at Wikia

KillHil December 2, 2011
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Hey Wikians, I’m Hilary Goldstein, one of the newest members of the Wikia Staff. I'm a lifelong gamer and I'm excited to join Wikia as the Gaming Category Manager.

I love talking about games. If you’re curious what I think about some of the big games that are out or coming out, want to read some insight into the industry, or just keep up with whatever the heck I am doing -- follow the Killhil blog. I will update it regularly with gaming goodness. In fact, next week I’ll be posting my personal picks for the top five game of 2011.

Arrival on a new planetEdit

I landed on this new world called Wikia to discover a few things. First, they don't have phones at the desks in this office. Seriously, no phones. How do things get done? I don't understand! Ah, but they have free Red Vines, so I've decided to stay. My role is to help video game wikis in any way I can. If you have a cool gaming wiki, lemme know; I want to check it out.

Past lifeEdit

I once worked at IGN.com. Actually, I worked there for a long time. My biggest success was launching a pretty awesome comic book channel now run by the charming Joey Esposito. My biggest flub was announcing Microsoft had recalled the original Xbox from Japan (blame it on a bad translation... they were just a teeny bit upset).

If you’re an IGN fan, you may know me as the voice of Hilary Goldstein on the Game Scoop! and Three Red Lights Podcasts. We don't have a Wikia podcast... yet. However, if you are part of a wiki community with a games podcast or want to get one started, give me a shout.

Why Wikia?Edit

I used to run an editorial group of about 20 people at IGN. What I love about Wikia is that there are tens of thousands of editors. It's pretty incredible when you think about how many folks create and maintain wikis here. I'm still pretty new to Wikia, but the wikis I've dug into so far have really impressed me.

The most important thingEdit

My favorite game of all time? Chrono Trigger

Yes, a lot of amazing games have been released, but this remains my one true love. It's the best RPG ever made, has amazing music, a great story, memorable characters, and tons of different endings. If you've only played the "sequel", Chrono Cross, you are missing out. Chrono Trigger is unique and still hasn't been topped.

I'm excited to get to know many of you, find out what you love about games (and what you hate), and help your wikis to become even more successful at Wikia. If you have ideas, thoughts, or think there's a game better than Chrono Trigger (it's OK to be wrong) - let me know!



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  • Hi. Do you think you could help here: http://mariokartwiitipsandcheats.wikia.com/wiki/MarioKart_Wii_Tips_and_Cheats_Wiki? Its for MarioKart Wii.

  • Hi there Hil. I'm an IGN fan, and the head administrator/bureaucrat at The Last of Us wiki. It's really cool that your a staff member now.

    • Thanks. First trailer for The Last of Us looked amazing. Glad to hear it isn't that far off from coming out!

  • Have you ever played/heard of the Fatal Frame series? I heard of it around this time last year and I was finally able to buy the console and games and they came today ^.^

    • Fatal Frame II is one of the freakiest games I've ever played! Creepy twin ghost girls...meeeeep

  • Warning about the DBZ wiki,it's full of crazies,anyways welcome to the team.

  • Do you play RuneScape?

  • Welcome welcome, I hope you enjoy wikia and come to dbz wiki anytime to talk. I play video games to but not all that much. What are your favorite games?

  • You like to play video games, huh? Identify:

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  • Bet you don't know what Need For Madness is...

    • Correct -- I dunno that game. Might I suggest you open the wiki with a statement of what NFM is? :)

  • Well, as God said somewhere below here, since everyone is asking about your gaming status, have you, by any chance, played any of the Sly Cooper series? You'll recognize my avatar if you have.

    • I have played the first two Sly's. I really loved the first one, even if it was pretty short.

  • I would like to ask you a question: being a former IGN employee, do you happen to know anything about Codename: Panzers: Cold War? Anyways, welcome and happy participation!

    • I happen to know nothing about Codename: Panzers Cold War. Isn't it out already?

    • I don't know what happened to it when CDN defaulted. I heard rumors that the developers stuck together with others and continued it, but nothing more. Thanks anyway!

  • Welcome to Wikia! As a gamer since the late '90s, it's great to see a fellow gamer joining Wikia. :)

    • What games do you game?

    • Well, I have an Atari 2600, NES, Sega Genesis, SNES, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and a gaming PC. I've had a Nintendo GameCube, Xbox, Nintendo Wii, and Xbox 360 as well. As for games, it's far too many to name, but I think it's fair to say that I have all the good ones! :)

  • Well, since everyone else is grilling you on your video game knowledge, ever played Ninja Gaiden?

    • The original series or the newer Itagaki series? Yes and yes. I mastered Ninja Gaiden Black. Didn't really love NGII and have lots of concerns about NGIII

    • Yeah, kind of worried about NGIII without Itagaki and the mass overhaul they did of everything but some of the new gameplay elements look interesting.

    • Yeah, I can only judge so far on what I played at last E3. And that was really disappointing. I played on hard and it was laughable -- but they said they tuned it easier for E3, so hoping it still angers me with its challenge.

  • Cool! Another meat shield! The tickers will be thrilled!

    But seriously, I rep the Game Ideas wiki, the largest and fastest growing wiki containing ideas for new video games. Drop by if you've got the time! Our community is smaller, but growing, and together we have a wide base to make such epic games. Personally, I could talk about Gears 2, A tiny bit of Halo/MW2:bc2/various other things, but mainly the Mario universe.

  • Since your a avid gamer KillHil, do you like CoD World at War? I feel it's the best CoD game made... so far. What are your thoughts?

    • I prefer Black Ops. I liked BLOPs' story and I really dug the MP maps. And zombie mode was great.

    • Yea, Black Ops, it has great graphics (on xbox 360), WaW (world at war) has fun/addictive maps though. PS: Zombie mode is epic when you have that lightning gun or cross bow.

  • Good to see a new face on Wikia :)

  • welcome. I am a chat moderator on the CoD wiki. drop by some time.

  • Heigh-ho! By the looks of it, we've had a great new addition to the team! Unfortunately, I'm between wikis at the moment, and so don't really have any links to provide in that instance.

    And my favourite game? Zelda: Ocarina of Time, for sure. Its depth and originality just drags you in, to say the very least. Though, funny enough, I've never gotten that far :P

    Though sometimes, I like to just pickup a controller and play what suits my fancy. Perhaps we'll meet in the near future!

    • Ocarina is one of my faves. Played Skyward Sword yet?

    • *butts in*

      Ocarina of Time is simply amazing, and was my favorite game for a long time, but I've gotten really into Majora's Mask.

    • I always felt Majora's was like Ocarina 1.5. That's not a bad thing, but wasn't like totally cool new Zelda.

    • Majora is like Ocarina's evil twin sister/brother ^.^

    • Ocarina of Time....one of Nintendo's finest. I really love Skyward Sword, but I can't classify it as the "best game ever" mainly because of how Nintendo omitted a left-hand mode. And I happen to be left handed.

  • Hey Hilary, welcome to Wikia. I’m also mostly on RuneScape, but I’ve been known to pick up a console from time to time (although I’m not exactly up to date :D). It’s good to see someone with so much editorial experience here. I’d love to talk with you some more about games, wikis and some other stuff.

    Favorite game of all time? Killer7. Honorable mentions to GTA SA and IV. Make of that what you will.

    • Thanks for the welcome. I've heard some good things about you! Killer7 hm? Very cool game. Suda51 is one weird dude. I am not much of a PC gamer, so I guess if you combined our knowledge you'd have the perfect gamer.

  • The more the merrier! Welcome to Wikia!

  • I'm just getting started on Arkham Asylum. I like to stay a few years behind the times.

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