About Voig

Voig.com is a social networking site dedicated to gamers, for gamers, by gamers. Voig enables individual players and teams to customize their own websites, host content, and manage contacts. Through the Voig network players can meet new friends, recruit allies, or challenge opponents. In addition, Voig provides a community showcase for top-rated videos, screenshots, apps, teams, and players. The goal is simple… provide a home for gamers, to be gamers.
Voig has a close group of dysfunctional employees that represent the best and worst of gaming. Some of us are l33t gamers, others casual players, and the occasional noob. We each have different preferences for game type, but we all belong to online communities.
AJ “MIG” Loiacono
Managing Director
Alex “Hairymop” Charalambides
Sr. Developer
Gina “633633” Cassese
Sr. Designer
Eric “Newton” Arezzo
Community Manager
Christian “DaBxPunisher” Henriquez
Developer
Bertrand “Tamentis” Janin
Developer
Bobby “DrJones” White
Developer
Nate “Broma” Fodrea
Intern
Rachael “Kyaa” Goodman
Staff Writer
Why is it called Voig?
Why not? It’s short, somewhat catchy, and besides wanker.com was already taken. Voig stands for Voice of Internet Gaming, but it’s really not important. It was a cheap domain name and in an independent marketing survey 82% of the people believed the name “didn’t suck.”

Disclaimer
Some of our contributors occasionally make statements that are considered offensive to um, everyone. Voig.com does not believe in censorship, but we are not responsible for these blights upon the gaming community. We fully support the First and Second Amendments, which basically means we believe in public opinions and the right to hunt with a shotgun.

History 1.0
The date, July 12, 2004, not that it’s important, but it was the day we decided PC-gamers needed a free VoIP service to communicate tactics, taunt enemies, or just hang-out. We scraped up some money, convinced a few friends to join us, and started Vonex.com. The idea was sound, but we never produced a stable and scaleable solution (it was crap, but we meant well). Turns out the bankruptcy laws aren’t all that friendly, our friends thought we were idiots, and Vonex.com incinerated in a spectacular document-burning party.

Reboot 2.0
Some say it’s lonely at the top, well, the bottom is no fiesta. However, we learned a few important lessons (like filing unemployment) and realized our primary goal was to bring gamers together. With every new console, handheld, and computer providing online game-play, we wanted to build a website where gamers could connect, build teams, or manage leagues. So we found some old servers, hijacked some bandwidth, and began project Voig. Voig was launched on December 15, 2006 and immediately crashed on December 16, 2006. The dev-team was flogged, we proudly re-launched on January 15, and the website crashed again. We decided to restart with a beta, “borrowed” some new servers, and celebrated our official re-re-launch on May 1, 2007.

Contact Us
We actually have an office and we do offer plush toilet paper to our visitors.