About The Other View est. 2003 - The Other View (TOV) is an independent tech, gaming, and movie review site publishing straightforward, no-BS critiques from the Val-Cave in New Jersey since 2003. Co-founded and run by Valkor, TOV was built on a simple premise: readers deserve honest takes, not repackaged press releases or pay-to-play praise. Unlike big-box outlets juggling affiliate quotas, every product that enters the Val-Cave gets the same treatment — unboxed, stress-tested, lived with, and judged on real-world value. From budget headsets like the Zalman MP1000 to retro dives like the Samsung Galaxy S III, from anime box sets to dash cams and obscure indie games like Ninja 1987, we cover what interests us, not what trends. So if we find it interesting, it’s fair game. Valkor’s review style is deliberately old-school. Each review uses the TOV 1-5 scale — 1 is Avoid, 3 is Decent, 5 is an all-time Must Have — scored after hands-on time, not spec sheets. To keep things scannable, every review is broken into The Good, The Bad and The Ugly or The Bang (what delivers) and The Slack (where it falls short), followed by a bottom-line verdict. No 10-minute intros, no algorithm bait. For over two decades, TOV has remained fiercely independent. What started as a personal homepage on a shared host, created by two scrubs from New Jersey has survived format wars, social media hype cycles, and AI-generated listicles by doing one thing well: telling you if something is actually worth your money and time. Welcome to The Other View — the other side of the hype machine, straight from the Val-Cave. And we're taking The View to a whole new level!
Terry “Valkor” Lewis
TOV Founder/Creator & Executive Editor
Email: valkor@the-other-view.com
Erik "Alacran" Alvia
Tech Editor/Writer
Email: alacran@the-other-view.com
Avion "Blackice" Foster-Jarvis
Gaming Editor/Writer
Email: blackice@the-other-view.com
Tim "Magus" Torres
Gaming/Media Writer
Email: magus@the-other-view.com
Norlen "Muramasa" Perez
Events Coordinator/technical assistant
hyoga@the-other-view.com
TOV Contributors:
Articles written by contributors are the sole property of The Other View and kept online with the respect to the companies they reflect. Contributors do not represent TOV under any capacity unless with permission from TOV's Executive Editor. Thank you.
- Zoe H - AfterDark
- Sean A - Digispa
- John DL - JDL
- John J - Sentroid91
- Fabien S - Epic-1
- Neal G - Ace
- Jose S - AP3X?Simon Says
- Jerry - Wildstar