(attached image: our “About Us” page from the website in 2010 explaining the origin of the name, written by Kori I believe)

Kori, our resident weeb at the time, was always sending random stuff in Japanese in chat despite none of us understanding anything she was saying. When it finally came time and we wanted to come up with a name for the growing group and site, I said “let’s do that Japanese word for ‘games’ that Kori keeps posting… Gekinzuku!”

Everybody thought that was a cool enough word/reason, so that’s how the name was born. It’s nothing close to ゲームス, but it somehow has a relatively one-to-one translation to the Japanese alphabet, ゲキンズークー. The use of ー characters is to bring the right spoken emphasis across to Japanese for “zu” and “ku”, but disclaimer I’m still not a Japanese expert ;)

The group isn’t nearly as big as it was in during the 2008-2011 timeframe, but we still have 5-10 active members that we stay in touch with, all united under our common misunderstanding of words posted in a language we didn’t even speak.