Marc Saltzman (Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada) is a freelance journalist, author, lecturer, consultant, and radio and TV personality. He specializes in computers, the Internet, video gaming, telecommunications, digital music, and consumer electronics. Saltzman writes two weekly syndicated columns for Gannett News Service which reach 99 newspapers across the U.S. (and their respective Web sites) every week. He recently inked a deal with CNN.com - which gets over 20 million page views per month - to have his GNS columns run weekly on CNN's technology page. In addition to his GNS columns, Saltzman contributes to more than two dozen prominent publications, reaching millions of readers each month: USA Today, USAToday.com, LA Times, Playboy, Maxim, Modern Maturity, Yahoo! Internet Life, Electronic Gaming Monthly, PC Gamer, Electronic Playground, and many more. This year he'll be hosting a new TV show in Canada called "TKO" ("Technical Knockout"), devoted to the finest in games, gadgets, Net trends, computers and consumer electronics. Saltzman is the author of seven books including DVD Confidential: Hundreds of Hidden Easter Eggs Revealed!, Game Design: Secrets of the Sages (published by Macmillan in 3 editions) and Internet Games Directory (Macmillan, 1996). Saltzman has been an official "Best of E3" judge at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, nominating the best computer and console games, and most promising hardware, for the annual trade show.
