Winfried Ernst Forster (born 21 March 1969) is a German journalist, publisher, and video game critic.
Forster is a co-founder and partner of the company, for which he built the first professional video game portal and forum in German in the mid-1990s with Maniac Online.
Around the same time, Forster worked on other market-leading magazines from other publishers, from 1992 the PC Player by Heinrich Lenhardt, from 1997 to 2007 the Bauer publication Bravo Screenfun.
[6] In 2000 and 2001, he realized the console special editions of GameStar, the prototype of today's GamePro, for IDG, as well as numerous reports and articles and product and market analyzes.
[2][6] Since 2009, Forster has been talking with Heinrich Lenhardt, Anatol Locker and Jörg Langer in the monthly Spieleveteranen-Podcast about historical and recent trends and events in the computer and video game industry.