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Billy Berghammer | |
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Born | 1972 (age 46–47) |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Journalist |
Known for | Founder of Planet Gamecube (August 22, 2000) [1] now Nintendo World Report (September 4, 2006) [2] |
Billy Berghammer is the creator of former site Planet Gamecube, now named Nintendo World Report, and was the director of G4tv.com, [3] Berghammer is now a member of Nintendo of America's Treehouse division.
Berghammer had a job in video game journalism. In his free time, he had begun creating the website N64HQ, and running on March 7, 1999, for Nintendo's hardware product N64. A short time after, the site closed, and eventually, due to being let go from his job, he had a lot of free time. He used this time to create another news site titled N2000HQ. The idea behind N2000HQ was to become a news site that would completely and effectively cover the newly anticipated GameCube and Game Boy Advance hardware and software for those consoles. The N2000HQ.com domain was unfortunately taken already and Berghammer decided to work in the name of PlanetN2000. [4]
Video game journalism is a branch of journalism concerned with the reporting and discussion of video games, typically based on a core "reveal–preview–review" cycle. There has been recent growth in online publications and blogs.
Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquartered in Kyoto. Nintendo is one of the world's largest video game companies by market capitalization, creating some of the best-known and top-selling video game franchises, such as Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Pokémon.
The Nintendo GameCube is a home video game console released by Nintendo in Japan and North America in 2001 and Europe and Australia in 2002. The sixth generation console is the successor to the Nintendo 64, designed to compete with Sony's PlayStation 2 and Microsoft's Xbox.
During the transition from N2000HQ(dot)com to PlanetN2000(dot)com, the GameCube themed site OperatioN2000 had closed down. Justin Nation, founder of OperatioN2000, was offered to move all of the content that was on OperatioN2000 to the newly made PlanetN2000 and to work with the site, along with a few others who worked on the recently closed site. [4]
PlanetN2000 rounded up quite the readership for its site, and soon enough, other Nintendo news sites had shut down, increasing the number of visits and amount of bandwidth. After attending PlanetN2000's first E3, a gaming expo that reveals news and releases of new video games, the already excessive bandwidth usage had increased substantially. It was on Billy's N64's second birthday (May 7, 2001) they decided to move their site to a new domain: PlanetGamecube. [4]
The Electronic Entertainment Expo, commonly referred to as E3, is a premier trade event for the video game industry. Presented and organized by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), it is used by many developers, publishers, and hardware and accessory manufacturers to introduce and advertise upcoming games and game-related merchandise to retailers and members of the press.
After moving away from PlanetGamecube, Berghammer had bounced around different video game journalism and editing jobs from 2003 to 2012
Two years later after the launch of PlanetGamecube, on April 2003, Berghammer took up an offer at Game Informer Magazine and left Planet Gamecube. [4]
In 2009, senior vice president of interactive and new wedia Joshua Krane appointed Berghammer to be the director of G4tv.com for gaming editorial. [5]
In 2010, Berghammer was hired by Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM), in which he oversaw and managed both the print version of EGM Now and EGMi: The Digital Magazine. [6]
It is said by Berghammer himself on October 2012 that he was taken in to help with the release of the game Skulls of the Shogun. [7] Other sources may be needed to confirm this.