About Us

Gamezebo is your home and community for casual games on the Internet.

Every day, we feature reviews, tips, news, and videos of the latest and greatest in casual games. Our mantra is simple: if a casual game is released online, you’ll hear it first on Gamezebo.

We also provide you with the social tools to rate, share, and connect with people who are just as passionate about casual games as you are.

Founded by industry veteran Joel Brodie, former head of business development at Yahoo! Games, Gamezebo is a Webby Nominee for Best-Games Related Site of 2008 and our content is translated and viewed by millions online through our Web site and syndication partners.

Who We Are
Our elite team of contributors has written for such publications as USA Today, CNN, the New York Times, and more, and all have one thing in common --- we love casual games. Here's a short list of who we are and our illustrious biographies:

Joel Brodie
Joel is the founder and the self-appointed Chief Gamezebo. Previously, Joel was head of business development for Yahoo! Games, where he was responsible building numerous enterprising products, including Yahoo! Games Downloads, Games on Demand, and Video Games. Before that, Joel worked business development at Simutronics, a games company that was doing massively multiplayer games before they were cool. Joel graduated from University of Maryland with an undergraduate degree in economics and political science, and dreams one day of going back to school to get his MBA or writing the great American novel, once he has made his first couple million (I mean, billion). Joel is the most prolific person at Gamezebo and can type more than 101 words per minute.

Erin Bell
Erin is a Toronto-based writer and the editor of Gamezebo. Besides Gamezebo, her articles have appeared in publications including Crispy Gamer, Globe & Mail, the Toronto Star, CBC.ca, CommonSenseMedia.org, PC World Canada and Mac World Canada, Ziff Davis' Pocket Games magazine, Microsoft Home Magazine, and GameCritics.com. Erin has been a gamer since the age of seven, and got her start playing PC classics like Starflight, King's Quest and Lode Runner. She credits early text-based adventure games for her ability to type more than 102 words per minute.

Jim Squires
A freelance journalist and geek culture fanatic, Jim has been writing about video games and related nerdery since 2004.  His articles have been published in a variety of online publications including MacApper, The Tanooki, Gadget.ca and Bits Bytes Pixels & Sprites.  He has been a regular contributor with Gamezebo since April 2008, performing duties as both writer and social media manager.

Debbie Gage
Debbie Gage (or granny123 as she's known on the forums) is Gamezebo's friendly neighborhood community manager and forum moderator. She's a huge fan of hidden object and point-and-click adventure games. When she's not playing games, Debbie enjoys reading, baking, and spending time with her two sons, four grandchildren, and a white chihuahua named Shakey.

Keith Andrew
Keith Andrew has been writing since 2004 for publications including Pocket Gamer, SlideToPlay.com, Jolt Online Gaming, 360 Gamer Magazine, and the U.K. trade magazine MCV. He ranks Broken Sword, SimCity, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Shenmue, Ace Combat, Ragdoll Blaster and Build-a-lot among his favorite games, and has a penchant for sci-fi like Doctor Who and Torchwood. He's based in Manchester, England.

Lisa Cowdell
Lisa Cowdell loves her iPhone almost as much as she adores her sewing machine, which illustrates the variety of her recreational diversions. As the lone girl growing up in Southern California with five brothers, Lisa learned how to compete and win at any game at a young age. She’s a fan of many different game genres, but especially Snood, Bejeweled, Super Mario Bros., ToonTown, Backgammon, and any kind of solitaire game. When she’s not busy trying to outscore one of her four children on the latest Wii game, you may find her creating quilts, reading books, or playing the piano. Most of her career, she’s served as a Children’s Librarian and  has a keen idea for story.

Meryl K. Evans
Meryl K. Evans is the content maven (AKA writer, editor, researcher, word gal, CEO, and UFO) behind Meryl.net. She's the author of Brilliant Outlook Pocketbook and co-author of Adapting Web Standards. She has written and edited for AbsoluteWrite, ECT News Network, The Dallas Morning News, Digital Web, Lockergnome, MarketingProfs, PC Today, O’Reilly, Pearson, Sams, Wiley, and WROX. A native Texan, she lives a heartbeat north of Dallas in Plano, Texas with her husband and three kiddos. She doesn't wear 10-gallon hats and neither do most residents . . .yet.

Lisa Haasbroek
Lisa Haasbroek is a game developer and former New Yorker living in Cape Town, South Africa with her husband and three children. When not playing casual games, her hobbies include wine tasting, studying the tarot, ghost hunting, antiquing, writing chick lit, and cooking up exotic dishes. Since she spends at least 4 hours a day gaming, she is grateful to Gamezebo for giving her and excuse to indulge in her favorite hobby.

Tom Hayes
Tom Hayes has been writing strategy guides for more than nine years, with much of his early work appearing on GameFAQs. He's a huge fan of third-person adventure games, with some of his favorites being Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within, Grim Fandango, King's Quest IV, The Longest Journey, and all the early Sierra and LucasArts adventures. He currently lives in a peaceful part of south-west England with his yellow Labrador retriever, where he recently returned from walking the 630-mile South West Coast Path. He loves walking, exploring new and interesting places, extreme sports, and playing instruments like the guitar and ukulele.

Nathan Meunier
After a lengthy stint as a newspaper reporter covering the “real world,” Nathan leapt at the opportunity to dive headlong into writing about video games and geek culture. Now a prolific freelance writer with an eye for all things geeky and great, he’s written for numerous gaming publications, including The Escapist, Nintendo Power, IGN’s Green Pixels, Games Radar, and Cheat Code Central, among others. Despite his hardcore gamer roots, he nurses a crazed Peggle addiction and secretly enjoys gaming-related things that are cute and colorful…oops.

Martijn Mueller
Martijn Mueller has been a freelance journalist for five years before joining the Gamezebo team. In addition to writing strategy guides for Gamezebo, he is an aspiring game designer and industry expert. For three years he hosted the online radio show Game Factory. He also founded and served as Webmaster for the world's largest Legend of Zelda website, Land of the Legend, and designed the GameLegend Digital Interactive Customer Information System. Aside from all this writing, he still very much loves to sit down with his lovely wife Tawny, and enjoy a great game.

Tawny Mueller
Originally hailing from California and now living in Europe, Tawny Mueller has been covering games for more than three years and has contributed to various outlets as a freelance writer, editor, artist and photographer. Starting in 2006, she worked as English Editor-in-Chief for Land of the Legend, where she created the Ocarina of Time beta project and wrote "The Concept Origins of Twilight Princess," an article tracing how concepts from Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time were later emulated in Twilight Princess. She was also a writer and editor for the GameLegend Digital Interactive Information System.

Marc Saltzman
As a prolific freelance journalist, author, radio and TV host, Marc Saltzman is one of North America's most recognized and trusted experts in the interactive entertainment and consumer technology industries. Along with his weekly syndicated column with USA Today’s parent company, Gannett News Service, Marc currently contributes to more than 50 prominent publications, including CNN.com, USA Today’s Technology Live! Blog, The Costco Connection, Playboy, AARP – The Magazine, Sympatico MSN and Gamezebo. Marc has authored 14 books, hosts two radio shows and is a regular on-air technology expert on CNN, CNN Radio and Global TV.

Chad Sapieha
Chad Sapieha is a Canadian technology journalist based in Toronto. He's played video games for 30 years and has been writing about them for almost half that time. As the game blogger and reporter for The Globe and Mail, Canada's newspaper of record, he covers covers a variety of games for all manner of platforms. He counts himself a strong fan of casual games, with his favourites falling under the categories of puzzles and cards. He works at home, where he looks after his four-year-old daughter, Scarlett, whose aid he enlists to help him through particularly tricky hidden object games.

Scott Steinberg
Scott Steinberg is CMO and publisher of technology supersite DigitalTrends.com and managing director of Embassy Multimedia Consultants, which counsels game industry publishers, developers and investors worldwide. A most prolific freelance author and radio/TV host, he’s covered gaming/technology for 300+ outlets from CNN to the LA/NY Times, Playboy, Rolling Stone, USA Today and TV Guide. Other ventures include software publisher Overload Entertainment and Games Press, the ultimate resource for game journalists, as well as groundbreaking books Videogame Marketing and PR and The Videogame Style Guide and Reference Manual.

David Stone
David is a musician, teacher and game writer. He has played videogames for over 25 years, watching the medium evolve. He has written extensively for GameCritics.com, a website devoted to higher criticism of games and culture, as well as tech blog NextLust.com. David has composed music for film, television and interactive entertainment, as well as large-scale orchestral works. In addition, he is the studio manager and teacher at the Toronto School for Strings. In his spare time, he enjoys working in the kitchen and playing with his three bunny rabbits. He lives with his wife in Toronto, Canada.

Andrew Webster
Andrew is a freelance writer who got his start writing about video games for tech news site Ars Technica, where he is still a daily contributor. His work has also appeared in Cinema Blend, The Escapist, GamesRadar, Green Pixels, This Magazine, What They Play, and more. When he isn't writing about games, he can be found organizing his absurdly large DVD collection, working on his novel, planning for the inevitable zombie apocalypse, or playing with his adorable shih-tzu Millie. He lives in Brampton, Ontario with his fiance Christina.

Christina Winterburn
Christina Winterburn's articles have appeared on Destructoid.com, TheBBPS.com, AttackThis.net, Gaygamer.net, and her own blog, TheGirlGamer.net. She counts The Legend of Zelda, Mario Bros., Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts series' among her favorite games, along with classic adventure games like Secret of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle and Sam & Max. In her spare time, she runs an online craft store called Pixelated Creations where she sells video game-inspired fused bead art. She's also a fan of comic books, science-fiction, and collecting action figures. Her best geeky moment: "Meeting actor, Ted Raimi, and having him try to pick me up."