GI Staff And Reader Interests, Dislikes, And Favorite Games: Issue #210

From now on the Game Informer monthly staff page will be more of a forum where we all come together and talk about what's cool right now. We'll get the ball rolling and would love to hear everyone's current interests, dislikes, and favorite games.

Andy McNamara  Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: New Season of Dexter, Cee-Lo, Biking, My New Alienware M11X, iPad, Twins (Please Lose More Games, White Sox, KTHX) Dislikes: That Entourage & Weeds Now Suck, That I Am Not Sponsored By A TV Company So I Always Have The Latest And Greatest (I'm Dreaming Here, I Know This Doesn't Exist), That Nervous Feeling I Have About The Vikings Season Current Favorite Games: World Of Warcraft, Civilization V, StarCraft II, Lara Croft And The Guardian Of Light, Braid, Darksiders, Knights Of The Old Republic (A Classic Replay on PC)

Andrew Reiner Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Soundgarden's New Compilation Album Telephantasm (Although The Art Looks Like it Should Be Painted On The Side Of A Van), Revisiting Mr. Show, Watching People Play Kinect (Even The Skilled Players Look Like Morons), BioShock Infinite's Gameplay Video (Coming To GI Soon!) Dislikes: Arming A Nerf Gun War & Not Getting To Participate In It, Entourage (What Happened To This Show? It Used To Be So Good), The Possibility That My Xbox Live Profile Is Corrupt (134,000 Gamerscore Down The Drain) Current Favorite Games: Halo: Reach, Call Of Duty: Black Ops, Enslaved, Dead Rising 2, Fallout: New Vegas

Matt Helgeson Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: The Return Of Kenny F'n P, HBO and Scorcese's Boardwalk Empire, The Girl Who Played With Fire By Steig Larsson, Duke Nukem Forever (WTF!), Finally Seeing Nick Cave In Concert (With Grinderman), The Return Of The NFL Dislikes: iPhone Envy, T-Mobile Contracts, Sense Of Impending Doom With Regards To The Upcoming Vikings Season, L.A. Noire Being Pushed To Next Year, Sucking At Super Mario Bros. 3 Current Favorite Games: Hydro Thunder Hurricane, Red Dead Redemption, Picross 3D, Peggle: Dual Shot, Super Mario Bros. 3

Matthew Kato Profile E-mail Editor

Likes: Nick Taking LA By Storm, EA's Addictive Ultimate Team Feature In Its Sports Games, The New Office Fantasy Football Pool, Looking Forward To An iPhone In My Future Dislikes: When Games Don't Have The Option To Disable Auto-Save, My Apprehension About This Football Season, Medal Of Honor's Tier 1/ It's-So-***-Realistic-It'll-Blow-Your-Beard-Off Hype Campaign Current Favorite Games: NHL 11, FIFA 11, F1 2010

Adam Biessener Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Displaying A 1920x1080 Desktop At A 1:1 Pixel Ratio On A 36-Inch Flatscreen, Being Pleasantly Surprised By Indie Games, Twins Pulling Away In The AL Central (Next Stop: Home-Field Advantage!) Dislikes: Network Cards That Randomly Fail, Obnoxiously Loud OEM Video Card Fans, Having The Game I've Built Up In My Head As The Savior Of Turn-Based Gaming Crush Me With Its Terrible Reality, Haters Current Favorite Games: Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Picross 3D, Civilization V, Drop7, Plants Vs. Zombies XBLA, StarCraft II, World of Warcraft

Joe Juba Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins (How Had I Never Heard Of This?), Infuriating Bryan By Refusing To Use My iPhone To Its Full Potential, Tales Of The Otori By Lian Hearn, Wolfram Alpha, Watching Basshunter Rock Out In A Chair In This DotA Video, Taco Buffets Dislikes: Audio Books (Just Like Reading, But Lazier), Suicide Club (It Looked Promising. It Isn’t), Sitting Close To Dan, Pygmy By Chuck Palahniuk (I Like Most Of His Stuff, But This One Is Crap) Current Favorite Games: BioShock Infinite, Professor Layton And The Unwound Future, Valkyria Chronicles II, Splinter Cell: Conviction, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World

Matt Miller Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: The Walking Dead, The Dark Tower Coming To Film and TV (Please Don’t Suck!), The Ever-Growing Library Of Awesome Indie Games, The Return of Oddworld, Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythology Dislikes: Awesome Co-Workers Heading On To New Awesome Positions, How Much I’m About To Spend On New Rock Band Instruments, The Racism Inherent To Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythology, The End of The First Season Of Louie Current Favorite Games: Lara Croft And The Guardian Of Light, Starcraft II, Rock Band 3, Halo: Reach

Matt Bertz Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Les Savy Fav- Root For Ruin, iOS 4.1 Restoring My Formerly Sluggish iPhone 3G Performance, The Chip On Adrian Peterson’s Shoulder, Juggling Three Fantasy Football Teams, The Return of Duke Nukem, Rex Ryan’s Cuss-Filled Pep Talks On Hard Knocks Dislikes: The Hubris of Brad Childress, Jon Gibson (Nick Belongs With Us!), George Lucas (Hey Jerkface, Where The Hell Is My KOTOR Sequel?!), Waiting For Elder Scrolls V Current Favorite Games: Mafia II, NHL 11, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, NBA 2K11

Jeff Cork Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Trying To Figure Out How Microsoft Messed Up Game Room In Such A Colossal Way, New Save Game Systems, Playing Forza 3 With My Dad (He Usually Hates Games), Working Bing Into My Daily Vocabulary (Just A Second, Let Me Bing That For You), Shooting Tear Ducts And Foreheads With Nerf Darts (You’re Welcome, Tim) Dislikes: Heat, Humidity, Dan’s Dumb Hair (It is So, So Bad), Trying To Come Up With This Stuff On Command Like I’m Just A Piece Of Meat Current Favorite Games: Dead Rising 2, LittleBigPlanet 2, Super Scribblenauts

Nick Ahrens Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: The Game Informer Staff, Game Informer Magazine, Gameinformer.com, Our Bioshock Covers, Apple's Game Center, Apple Lifting The Flash Development Ban, Flight Of The Concords, Not Boiling In The Summer Sun, Nixon Watches, Candy, A Flawless Futurama Season Four, Taking Nerf Modding Past The Line Dislikes: The End Of A Great Run, Running Out Of Ways To Mod A Nerf Gun, Game Center's Lack Of A Global Achievement Score, Tipping Over A Glass Of Water In The Middle Of The Night Current Favorite Games: Ms. Pac-Man, Bioshock Infinite, Fragger, Hoggy, Limbo

Ben Reeves Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Deep Fried Cheeseburgers At The Minnesota State Fair (My Arteries Still Hurt), Marvel’s House of M Trade (What Can I Say, I’m Slow), Spider-Man’s One Moment In Time (But We’ll See How It Ends), UFC 118 (Watching Couture Stomp On Toney Was Worth The Price Of Admission) Dislikes: $500 Cars That Break Down Right After You Buy Them, Also Getting Pulled Over Twice In One Week In That Same Car Because Of Car Profiling Current Favorite Games: Lara Croft And The Guardian Of Light, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Red Dead Redemption, Metroid: Other M, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

Bryan Vore Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Nick’s New Life In L.A., Future Potential In The Apple Game Center (Where’s The Total Combined Gamerscore? That’s Achievements 101, My Friend), Eastbound & Down Season 2, Dexter Season 5, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia Season 6, Locke & Key: Crown of Shadows by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez Dislikes: Taking Forever To Read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Haunted Tank (Probably The Stupidest Comic Of All Time), Joe’s Confounding Refusal To Do Anything On His iPhone Outside Of Texting And Calls Current Favorite Games: Professor Layton And The Unwound Future, Halo: Reach, Call Of Duty: Black Ops, Fable III, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World

Meagan Van Burkleo Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Las Vegas, Tokyo Fashion, Dexter Season 4, The Realmwalker Chronicles, 2011, Legitimate Ramen, Zombies, Customizing Munnys Dislikes: The Ever-Present Reminder That Fall Is Coming, Breaking My Palm Pre And Temporarily Not Having A Smart Phone, Forgetting What A Lazy Weekend Feels Like, Layovers On International Flights, Having To Find Homes For My Cats Current Favorite Games: Dead Rising 2, Devil’s Crush, Comic Jumper, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix

Annette Gonzalez Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Covering Tokyo Game Show With Meagan, Celebrating My Birthday For A Week, Friends Visiting For My Birthday, Our BioShock Infinite Covers Dislikes: Finding A Dead Bee On My Keyboard (It's all Jeff M.'s Fault) Favorite Games: BioShock Infinite, Plants Vs. Zombies XBLA, Minerva's Den DLC, Batman: Arkham City, Green Day: Rock Band

Philip Kollar Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: MMOs, Falling Back In Love With PC Gaming, Continuing To Find Weird Cool Indie Games, My New Desk In Our Newly Renovated Office, Extra Lives by Tom Bissell, Recording Awesome Interviews, The First 75 Minutes Of The Last Exorcism Dislikes: The Strange Odor Adam Left Behind At My New Desk (?!), Terrible Keyboard/Mouse Implementation In Final Fantasy XIV Beta, The Numbers In My Bank Account, Long Bus Rides, Transcribing Awesome Interviews, The Final 10 Minutes Of The Last Exorcism Current Favorite Games: World Of Warcraft, The Lord Of The Rings Online, Batman: The Brave And The Bold, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Metroid II: Return Of Samus

Jeff Marchiafava Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: The Recent Stream Of Cool Portal 2 Videos, The Revival Of Duke Nukem Forever(?!), Finally Getting 100% In A Rockstar Game (Red Dead), Discovering That The History Behind Labor Day Is Actually Pretty Interesting, How Idiot-Proof Our Fantasy Football League Is, Putting A Dead Bee On Annette’s Keyboard Dislikes: Bad PlayStation Move Games, How Early The Sun Is Starting To Set, Waiting For Portal 2 And LittleBigPlanet 2 To Come Out Current Favorite Games: BioShock, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, LittleBigPlanet, NBA Jam

Dan Ryckert Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: This, Eastbound & Down Coming Back This Month, Machete, Stephen Colbert And Jon Stewart Holding A Mock Rally In DC, Lynyrd Skynyrd, 40s Of Mickey's, Prison Documentaries Dislikes: Rush, Shank Assigning "Use Health Item" And "Attack" To The Same Button, A&E's Obsessed Not Living Up To The Hilarity Of Intervention, Indie Rock, Move And Kinect Launch Titles, Scott Pilgrim Constantly Making My 360 Freeze Current Favorite Games: Super Mario Bros. 3, Starcraft II, Mafia II, Lara Croft And The Guardian Of Light, Doodle Jump

Tim Turi Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Turning Out To Be An Awesome Movie,  True American Dogs, The American Carnage Tour With Slayer, Charlie Bit My Finger Autotune, Megadeth, And Testament, Powerglove’s Saturday Morning Apocalypse, Deadwood, Summit Golden Ale, The Minnesota State Fair, Girlfriend’s Cooking, This Amazing Cat Dislikes: Power Surges That Fry My 360, PC, And Microwave, Machete, Wind, Computer Viruses, Loud Neighbors Playing Bad Music Loudly, Missing The State Fair’s Deep-Fried Cheeseburger, PSP Battery Life, Fighting Insect Swarms Current Favorite Games: BioShock Infinite, Dead Rising 2: Case Zero, Valkyria Chronicles II, Mario & Luigi : Bowser's Inside Story, Castlevania: Harmony Of Despair, Limbo, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Majin And The Forsaken Kingdom, Sonic 4, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest