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Name: James Wallis
Joined: April 4, 2000

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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

'Hogshead' is the name of the games publishing company I set up in 1994. I sold it in 2003 and am no longer associated with whatever shreds remain of it, except in my usernames on various websites I joined before that.

My latest book is Everybody Wins: Four Decades of the Greatest Board Games Ever Made (Aconyte, 2022), an overview of the rise of modern board games seen through the lens of the Spiel des Jahres.