Libe Goad is a technology and video game journalist who resides in New York City and has written about video games and gadgets for publications including Blender, PC Magazine, Bust, Seventeen and Sync.

She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of AOL

AOL

AOL Inc. is an American global Internet services and media company. AOL is headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York. Founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation, it has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world or set up international versions of its services...

's GameDaily.com video game Web site and a semi-regular TV talking head on CNBC and other stations. Formerly, she was a Senior Writer at PCMag.com and Web Editor for Sync magazine for Ziff Davis

Ziff Davis

Ziff Davis Inc. is an American publisher and Internet company. It was founded in 1927 in Chicago by William B. Ziff, Sr. and Bernard G. Davis. Throughout most of its history, it was a publisher of hobbyist magazines, often ones devoted to expensive, advertiser-rich hobbies such as cars,...

. She is also the co-founder of GameGal.com , an early influential Web site for girl gamers. Goad is married to Dan Ackerman

Dan Ackerman

Dan Ackerman is a former radio DJ turned technology and video game journalist. Ackerman resides in New York City and has written about video games and gadgets for publications including SPIN, Blender, WWE Magazine, and The Hollywood Reporter.He is currently a Senior Editor at CNET.com and a...

 of CNET Networks, and their joint Web site is dedicated to their work covering technology, games and gadgets.

Goad was named one of the 50 Most Influential Games Journalists by Next-Generation , and is a judge for both Spike TV's VGA awards and the E3 Game Critics Awards.

External links

• All you Magazine: Become a video game pro
• http://www.gamedaily.com/
• MOMS 'GAME' TO LEARN VIDEO TRICKS
• http://www.gamegal.com/