In-Depth Guides & Virtual Reality
Welcome to SPACE4GAMES! My name is Josef Erl, and you may remember me from MIXED or HEISE ONLINE. Here at S4G, I focus on what I’m passionate about: games I love and tech that fascinates me.
SPACE4GAMES was originally founded in 2017 by Benjamin Danneberg and has evolved over the years, with a slightly changing team and a somewhat shifting editorial focus. Since joining in 2019, I have gradually moved into a leadership role and have been the one constant ever since. Today, S4G is, for the most part, a one-man editorial project. In other words, I write here without a large newsroom or the financial backing of a publishing house behind me.
With that in mind, you should not expect 157 articles a day. Instead, I focus on one or two games per month and try to cover them as comprehensively as possible — from previews and launch guides to reviews, walkthroughs, and in-depth game guides.
Since I can’t — and don’t want to — cover every major and minor game or every new piece of technology, I focus on the things I care about most:
- (Action) adventures and role-playing games, with or without open worlds.
- Often, though not always, with a touch of horror, sci-fi, or fantasy.
- And, of course, XR — meaning virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, and the emerging new generation of smart glasses.
If those topics sound like your kind of thing, I’d be thrilled if you followed me and SPACE4GAMES on Google, stopped by our Discord server, supported S4G, or simply left a friendly note in the comments.
Now enjoy browsing — and hopefully we’ll hear from, read from, or see each other again soon!
Best regards,
Josef
The Team – Who We Are
Editorially, I occasionally get support from friends and colleagues, while the technical foundation still comes from Ben and Deep Content.
Josef Erl
Editor-in-Chief
Josef is a freelance journalist and leads the editorial team at SPACE4GAMES. He’s drawn to games with strong atmosphere, memorable stories, and mechanics that feel fresh instead of recycled. Action-adventures, RPGs, and horror games tend to dominate his playlist.
Outside of traditional gaming, Josef has worked extensively in XR journalism. As part of the editorial team at heise.de and former editor-in-chief of MIXED, he has covered the VR and AR industry through its biggest shifts, trends, and setbacks.
Freelance Writers and Collaboration Partners
Editorially, I occasionally get support from friends and colleagues, while the technical foundation still comes from Ben and Deep Content.
Ilona Frank
Horror games, adventures, and cozy games are Ilona's natural habitat, though she’d probably be even more invested in real life if it handed out achievement trophies for surviving stressful weekdays.
Her guides focus on clarity and accessibility without talking down to readers — especially when games explain their own systems poorly.
Patrick Wiedemann
Patrick is the creator behind the YouTube channel “ZockStube” and has spent years deep in the VR and XR space, especially around the Meta Quest ecosystem. He regularly tests new VR games, hardware, and experimental XR technology with a mix of technical knowledge and hands-on experience.
He’s most interested in the kind of VR experiences that create genuine immersion or bring communities together in unexpected ways. At this point, he has likely spent more hours inside virtual worlds than many people spend watching TV.
Contact / Support
Feedback. Praise. Criticism. Opinions. Questions. Tips. Hints.
You can send all of this and more any time to redaktion(at)space4games.com. You can also contact us directly via Discord, Facebook and Twitter.
Advertising / Media information
Want to advertise on SPACE4GAMES or discuss a partnership? Reach out to us at redaktion(at)space4games.com.