High Ground Media

Consulting, writing, and editing services for the videogame industry

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Consulting

Reliable and actionable insights, from early evaluations to late-stage mock reviews. Discover the benefits of decades of professional review experience—including more than 500 published reviews.

Writing

Editorial, advertorial, instructional, copywriting, blogging, and more. No matter the size or scope of your project, the product is delivered on time, on spec, and almost unbelievably clean, every time.

Editing

Insightful top-editing and authoritative copy-editing. Ten years of editing experience in print magazines and a fanatical attention to detail help make your copy cleaner, clearer, and simply better.

A bald white man with blue eyes looks at the camera with a very slight smile. He is wearing a maroon button-down shirt open at the collar, with a black T-shirt beneath. Behind him is a high-ceilinged room with knickknacks on the walls.

Joe Rybicki

Owner

Joe Rybicki got his start in the video game industry in 1996, as a writer and editor for P.S.X. magazine. A year later, he helped transform P.S.X. into The Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, where he remained until its closure at the end of 2006. Moving into a freelance role, Joe earned bylines from top publications from all over the video game and technology fields. Most recently, he has transitioned primarily into consulting, corporate communications, and other behind-the-scenes work in the tech and video game industries.

Joe lives on the outskirts of Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife, his daughter, two insane Labrador retrievers, and two three four equally insane cats.

Clients, Past and Present

Ubisoft
Electronic Arts
Bethesda
Paramount
BioWare
XD Entertainment
Crytek
Trion Worlds
D3 Publisher
Zen Studios
Majesco Entertainment
CDV Software Entertainment
1UP PR
Hit Detection
Min/Max Consulting
Gun Media
Geekbox Media
...and more.