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The Game Informer Staff Page: Issue #205
The Game Informer redesign was not without its casualties. As we looked to find more space in the magazine and expanded our staff starting with our Epic Mickey issue (#199), the popular editor bio page got the axe. After loads of reader email demanding its return, we're bringing editor interests, dislikes, and current favorite games in an easily digestible online format. Enjoy!
Andy McNamara Profile E-mail Editor
Interests: Twins Baseball, Waiting For iPad To Support The 3G I Already Pay AT&T For, Watching Lost Planet 2, The Current Radio Station Dislikes: The Battery Life Of My Xbox 360 Controllers (It Feels Like Every Time I Pick One Up The Batteries Are Dead) Current Favorite Games: World of Warcraft, God of War III, Dragon Age: Origins
Andrew Reiner Profile E-mail Editor
Interests: Dedicating My Life To Reaching The 100 Percent Completion Mark In Just Cause 2 (This Should Only Take Me 15 Years), Breaking Bad And The Tudors (Depressing TV At Its Best!), The iPad (Star Trek Doesn’t Even Have Technology This Advanced), Chocolate Covered Bacon (Expensive, But Worth It), Console Manufacturers Not Jumping The Gun On Next-Gen Systems (This Generation Has At Least Another Five Years Of Life In It) Dislikes: Another Slow Summer For Video Games, Netflix’s Watch Instantly Selection (Including Great New Releases Like War Games and 1978’s Inglorious Bastards), Hollywood Scraping The Bottom Of The ‘80s Barrel (The A-Team and The Karate Kid? Really?), The Conclusion To DC Comics’ Blackest Night (The Comic Equivalent To A Reset Button) Current Favorite Games: Red Dead Redemption, Alan Wake, Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening, Final Fantasy XIII, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Just Cause 2, Lost Planet 2
Matt Helgeson Profile E-mail Editor
Interests: Walking Down Stairs, Living On An Island, That Messed Up Major Lazer Video, Biking, Sitting On Fitness Balls, New Glarus Beer, New Twins Stadium Dislikes: Walking Up Stairs, People That Live On Nicollet Island, The Underwriting Process, Haters (Gonna Hate) Current Favorite Games: Galaga, Assassin’s Creed II, Dig Dug, KrissX
Matthew Kato Profile E-mail Editor
Interests: Moon With Sam Rockwell, Don Geiss Suspended In Carbonite, Enjoying Spring Before The Summer Hotness Sets In, Mad Men Illustrated Dislikes: The Upcoming Lord Of The Rings Blu-Ray Set That Doesn’t Contain The Extended Editions (And The Fact That Only Return Of The King Looks Blu-Ray Quality), Vampire Weekend, The Toby Keith Restaurant Being Built Nearby, No Playoff Hockey For Me Current Favorite Games: Skate 3, Split Second, Puzzle Quest 2
Adam Biessener Profile E-mail Editor
Interests: Airing Out The House, Skinny Delmon Young, A Fantastic Start To 2010 Twins Baseball, Drafting 2010 NL MVP Colby Rasmus In Like The 18th Round, Learning All Kinds Of Fascinating Stuff About Video Editing/Encoding, FF XIII's Awesome Battle System Dislikes: The Third Act Of FF XIII (Seriously, What The Hell Just Happened?), Having A Year Left On My Phone Contract (The 3G Feels So Slow), iPad Hype, Navigating The Murky Seas Of Codecs, My New Earlier Wake-Up Time (Courtesy Of My Cats) Current Favorite Games: Bulletstorm, Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XII, Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup, Spectromancer: League of Heroes, New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Joe Juba Profile E-mail Editor
Interests: Coming Up With Movie Ideas That Will Never Happen, The Cancellation Of 24 (It's Been Really Bad), Mouth Lasers, Reading The Glass Key and The Thin Man (I'm Apparently On A Noir Kick), Dead Snow Dislikes: DLC That Isn't Even Trying, Video Game Poetry, The Fact That I'm Tempted To Try This, The Lack Of Announcements For Bully 2 And Valkyrie Profile 3, It's Alive (You Can Really Watch Some Crap With Netflix Streaming) Current Favorite Games: Bayonetta, Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening, Infinite Space, The Sims 3: Ambitions, Sleep Is Death
Matt Miller Profile E-mail Editor
Interests: Hour Of The Dragon By Robert E. Howard, Early Springs, Buffy The Vampire Slayer 10 Years After The Fact, Justified, Video Games Live, Y: The Last Man Dislikes: The Word “Tweet”, The Way Zombies Are Being Overdone These Days, Trailers That Ruin The Movie By Showing All The Best Parts, Biting Into An Oatmeal Raisin Cookie That You Thought Was Chocolate Chip Current Favorite Games: Final Fantasy XIII, God of War III, Puzzle Quest 2, Might & Magic: Clash Of Heroes, StarCraft II
Matt Bertz Profile E-mail Editor
Interests: Checking Out Target Field, Mariachi El Bronx, Kicking It In NYC, Ice T Smacking Down Aimee Mann, Treme, Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter by Tom Bissell, Patio Drinks At Club Jäger Dislikes: All Things 3D, Tim Tebow To Vikings Rumors, R.I.P. Malcolm McLaren, Overly Dramatic Music in Films and Television (Looking At You, The Pacific), Apple Giving the Shaft to 3G Users By Denying Them Multitasking Current Favorite Games: Red Dead Redemption, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, NHL 10, God of War III, Heavy Rain
Jeff Cork Profile E-mail Editor
Interests: Video Games, This Dumb Sandwich, Fringe (It Keeps Getting Better And Better), This Last Part Of Spring Before It Gets Too Hot, This Scrappy Little Website Dislikes: Car Trouble, Apple Zealots Cheering About Stuff That Should Have Been Included In The First Place, 24's Final Season (Go Away, Dana Walsh, And Take The Writers With You), Dan's Beard Current Favorite Games: Deadly Premonition, Dead Rising 2, Red Dead Redemption, Bejeweled Blitz
Nick Ahrens Profile E-mail Editor
Interests: Shooting Photos Again, Skateboarding Again, SGU, Making GI Editors In Create-A-Character Game Modes, Owning Too Many Computers, Hulu, Using A Tony Hawk: Ride Board As A Foot Rest Dislikes: The Idea Of Taco Bell Shrimp Tacos, Browsers That Do Not Support Flash, Close-Minded Development, People Who Do Not Use Their Blinkers Current Favorite Games: Just Cause 2 (For At Least 100 Hours)
Ben Reeves Profile E-mail Editor
Interests: Locke & Key (Best Comic I’ve Read In A Long Time), Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman By Jon Krakauer, Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane (I Should Be Ashamed I’ve Read This, But I’m Not) Dislikes: The Oversaturation Of Deadpool (I Love Him, But It’s Getting Out Of Hand), This Terrible Waiting Period Before The Scott Pilgrim Movie, Manswers (Please Stop Yelling At Me), Finding Out I Have Asthma Currently Favorite Games: Splinter Cell: Conviction, Borderlands: Secret Armory of General Knoxx, Cave Story, Flower, Final Fantasy XIII, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Mass Effect 2
Bryan Vore Profile E-mail Editor
Interests: Seeing The Madness Of Major Lazer In Person, The First Trailer For Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Finally Listening To Death From Above 1979 Years After They Broke Up, Gunnerkrigg Court Volume 2: Research, Surviving KFC’s Double Down Sandwich Dislikes: iPad Buying Temptation Syndrome, The Lunar Lander Section In Matt Hazard Blood Bath And Beyond, Not Being Able To Transfer Any Previously Purchased DSi Downloaded Content To The DSi XL Current Favorite Games: Bulletstorm, Lost Planet 2, Bayonetta, Puzzle Quest: Challenge Of The Warlords (on iPhone)
Meagan Van Burkleo Profile E-mail Editor
Interests: Dinging At Level 50 In Borderlands, Adam Hughes’ Lara Croft: Snow Day Statue, Pinkberry, Portal 2, Indie Games, Rediscovering My Love For Typography, Weezer, And Queen Dislikes: Sitting Near Neil Gaiman At Video Games Live And Not Working Up The Courage To Talk To Him, Adult Responsibilities That Keep Me From Gaming 24/7, That San Diego Comic Con Is Still Months Away, Being Embarrassed That Lady Gaga’s Fame Monster Is The First CD I’ve Bought In Years, That I've Lost Interest In Beer Thanks To The GI Fitness Contest Current Favorite Games: Borderlands General Knoxx DLC, Limbo, Monaco, WarioWare D.I.Y., Cave Story
Annette Gonzalez Profile E-mail Editor
Interests: Finally Getting My Shoulder Repaired, Fifth-Gen Pokémon RPG, iPad, Video Game Music Performed By Live Orchestras Dislikes: Shoulder Surgery Rehab (Can't Play Games For A Week), Not Owning An iPad, Ugly Betty Getting Canceled, Getting Teased For Loving That Show Current Favorite Games: BioShock 2, Pokémon HeartGold/SoulSilver, Final Fantasy XIII, Mass Effect, The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, ModNation Racers
Philip Kollar Profile E-mail Editor
Interests: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (The Movie And The Book), Going To Way Too Many Movies, Literary Death Match, Finally Getting Rid Of My Hipster Flu From SXSW, Dr. Dog’s New CD (Shame, Shame) Dislikes: Clash Of The Titans, The Sudden (Hopefully Brief?) Return Of Bitter Cold, Missing Screenings For The Mountain Goats Documentary And Kick-Ass, Tomatoes, Going To A Restaurant With Ben And Watching Him Stress Out The Waitress Current Favorite Games: World Of Warcraft, Deadly Premonition, Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIV
Jeff Marchiafava Profile E-mail Editor
Interests: Not Having To Run The Furnace Or AC In My House For A Few Precious Weeks, The Way Books “Feel” On The iPad, All Previous Seasons Of 24 Being Added To Netflix Instant Queue, Seeing If Sleep Is Death Is As Fun As It Sounds Dislikes: Random Computer Problems That Steal Hours Of Your Time, Our Office Room Being Too Hot For Pants (Sorry, Nick And Jeff) Current Favorite Games: Mass Effect 2, Red Faction: Guerrilla, God Of War Collection
Dan Ryckert Profile E-mail Editor
Interests: This, Rediscovering LittleBigPlanet And Its Amazing User-Created Levels, Microwaveable Stuffed Crust Hot Pocket Pizza Things, Life On The Discovery Channel, Everything That's Happening On The New Seasons Of South Park And Breaking Bad Dislikes: Rush, P.F. Changs, The Second Level Of Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero, Scrubs, Everything Seth MacFarlane Has Ever Touched, Tool Current Favorite Games: Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Heavy Rain, Just Cause 2, Super Street Fighter IV, LittleBigPlanet
Tim Turi Profile E-mail Editor
Interests: "What A Wonderful World" Death Metal Style, Documentaries, Learning To Edit Video, A Serious Man, Outdoor Twins Baseball, Getting Link Into 3D Dot Game Heroes Where He Belongs, Moving, Tax Returns, Seeing The Ocean For The First Time, Jet Puffed Marshmallow Crème, Playing DS Games During Travel Dislikes: Crying Babies, Despondent Restaurant Servers, Downloading An Update Every Time I Start A Game, Cluttered Desktops, Freezer Burn, Caffeine Dependencies, Hypocrites, Having Delicious Sugar Cereal But No Milk Current Favorite Games: Final Fantasy XIII, 3D Dot Game Heroes, Perfect Dark HD, Sonic 3 & Knuckles
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