GI Staff And Reader Interests, Dislikes, And Favorite Games: Issue #212

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: Notice: World of Warcraft Is Not Listed As One Of Current Favorite Games (That's Right, I'm Interested In Spreading My Hate Of Early Game Mechanics Overhauls Like 4.0 Pre-Release Of The Expansion That "Makes It Work"), Firefly (I'm Watching The TV Series Finally And I Just Love The Cast, Such Classic Character Archetypes Combined With Witty Writing) Dislikes: Let Me Be The One To Say It, I Thought Call of Duty: Black Ops Single Player Campaign Was "Meh," Chilly (Both The Weather And The Coach) Current Favorite Games: Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Picross 3D, Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Andrew Reiner Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Losing Weight While Playing Kinect (If A Developer Created A Full-Blown MMORPG For Kinect, Gamers May Look Like American Gladiators), Holiday Shopping (It’s Fun If You Adopt the Mindset “Something For You, Something For Me”), Looking Ahead To 2011 (It’s Already Looking Like One Of The Best Years In Gaming History) Dislikes: Rearranging My Game Room Every Time I Want To Play Kinect (The Game Room Of The Future Is Going To Be A Gigantic Empty White Room), The Hardware Dilemma (With New Games Appearing Every Week On PS3, 360, Wii, Move, Kinect, PSP, DS, PC, Mac, IOS, Keeping Up On The Hot New Releases Has Become Impossible), Game Of The Year Voting (The Most Heated Argument Each Year) Current Favorite Games: Call of Duty: Black Ops, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Fable III, Fallout: New Vegas, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Epic Mickey

Matt Helgeson Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: The Baader Meinhof Complex (Amazing German Movie Based On A Real Terrorist Group In The 1970s), Oneida – Each One Teach One, Being Able To Do A Pullup For The First Time In My Adult Life, Sleeping Dislikes: Not Sleeping, The Thor Movie Trailer, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, The End Of Nice Fall Weather Current Favorite Games: Ilomilo, Plants vs. Zombies, Darksiders, Pinball FX2

Matthew Kato Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Quisp Cereal, Peter Jackson Returning To The Hobbit, Next Football Season (While Everyone Is Worrying About Next Week’s Game, The Vikings Have The Luxury Of Thinking About The Big Picture), Gallows Humor, Watching As Many Film Noir Movies Until Rockstar’s L.A. Noire Comes Out (***, Go Check Out The Trailer!) Dislikes: IceFrogs, My Pinball FX 2 Score Being Relevant In The Office For About Three Seconds, Being Up A Ladder 20 ft. In The Air During A Snowstorm Current Favorite Games: Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Pinball FX 2, Gran Turismo 5, Nail’d

Adam Biessener Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Devising The Worst Puns Possible For Superhero/villain Names, Cloud Cult -- Light Chasers, Meat Swords, Neal Stephenson -- Anathem, RED, Cataclysm Anticipation Dislikes: The Deafness That Follows Rock Shows, How Freaking Long It Takes To Finish A Stephenson Novel, Meat Comas, Latency Current Favorite Games: Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup, DC Universe Online (I'm As Surprised As You Are), World of Warcraft, Civilization V, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Joe Juba Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Finding The Best Taco Pizza In The Twin Cities (It's A Holy Quest), Finishing A Two-Year-Plus D&D Campaign, Coming Up With Better Benventions Than Ben (Including The Term "Benventions"), The Technology Of Kinect Dislikes: The Games Of Kinect, The Fact That All Football Isn't More Like This, Not Being As Awesome As This Guy, Not Having Cable (I Can't Watch The Walking Dead!), This Is A Thing? Current Favorite Games: Fable III, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Dead Space 2, Ilomilo, A World Of Keflings, God Of War: Ghost Of Sparta

Matt Miller Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: The Clone Wars Season 2 (What A Step Up!), Brotherhood's Multiplayer (It's Like Killer Hide And Seek), The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Betrayal At House On The Hill Dislikes: People Backing Into My Car At Stoplights, Waiting To Hear The Results Of The Supreme Court Gaming Case Current Favorite Games: Fable III, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Rock Band 3, Pac-Man Championship Edition DX, Valkyria Chronicles II, DJ Hero 2, Super Meat Boy, Pinball FX 2

Matt Bertz Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Grinderman – Grinderman 2, Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest, Boardwalk Empire, The Walking Dead, Bored To Death, Having My Faith In Bungie Single-Player Campaigns Restored With Reach, Cal Clutterbuck’s Kickass Season, Winter Is Coming Dislikes: Brad Childress, Brett Favre’s Dong, Burger King’s Sing-Songy Ad Campaign, Windows Phone 7’s Xbox Live Functionality (Missed Opportunity), Winter Is Coming Current Favorite Games: Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Halo: Reach, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Fable III, Fallout: New Vegas, FIFA 11, NHL 11 

Jeff Cork Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Delicious Curry, So-So Curry, Vacations, Lego Crap, Stuff That Everyone Probably Likes Dislikes: Shoveling, Sliding On Ice, Minnesota Drivers (Why Do I Live Here Again?), My Embarrassingly Huge Gaming Backlog, Finding Links For This Thing Current Favorite Games: Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Rock Band 3, Dead Rising 2, Pinball FX 2

Ben Reeves Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: The Room – The Best Terrible Movie I’ve Ever Seen (Keep Your Stupid Comments In Your Pocket), Pulling Off My ‘80s Sitcom Moment And Going To Three Halloween Parties On The Same Night, Chew – The Best Comic About The FDA’s Special Crimes Division I’ve Read All Year Dislikes: My New Auto Mechanic (He Only Takes Cash, And I Think There Was A Drug Deal Going On In The Back), Walking Through Five Inches Of Snow At The Minnesota Zoo (Why Do The Animals Look So Warm?), Watching Monster Trucks Racing Around The Field For Two Hours Before The Smashing Begins (Come On Monster Jam, Get That Show Moving) Current Favorite Games: Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Fable III, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Civilization V, Halo: Reach

Bryan Vore Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: The Deluxe Editions Of Weezer's Blue And Pinkerton Albums, Reading The Massive Walking Dead Compendium Before Watching The AMC Show, Attending My First Monster Jam, The Room, Autotune Remixes Of The Room Dislikes: Weezer's Blue And Pinkerton Tour Not Coming To Minneapolis, Waiting For All Of The Major Game Announcements And Trailers Coming Out Of The Spike Video Game Awards Current Favorite Games: Fable III, Hard Corps: Uprising, Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, Monster Tale

Meagan Marie Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Kinect’s Fitness Lineup, DCUO’s Opening Cinematic, Cowboys & Aliens, The Green Lantern Trailer, Lunartik’s Mini Teas, Building COG Armor, The Recent Slew Of Impressive Downloadable Games, Lady Mechanika, Finding Eggnog, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Somefield Art, 30 Rock Dislikes: Snow, The Uncensored Version Of Cee Lo Green’s “Forget You,” Snow, Ubisoft Validating The Existence of The Jersey Shore Cast, Snow, The Amount Of Work It Takes To Secure A Black Friday Deal, Snow Current Favorite Games: Mass Effect, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit

Annette Gonzalez Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Kinect As A New Fitness Tool, Learning Pro Keys In Rock Band 3, Finally Going To Chicago For The Holidays After Five-Month Leave, My New (Used) HDTV, Deadmau5 Dislikes: SNOW Current Favorite Games: DJ Hero 2, Dance Central, Super Meat Boy, Rock Band 3, The Sly Collection, Singularity

Philip Kollar Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Finally Catching Up On Season Six Of The Office (The Second Half Was Shockingly Not Terrible...Now How Is Season Seven Doing?), Discovering David Foster Wallace (Brief Interviews With Hideous Men Is Totally Blowing My Mind), Attending Midnight Launches, Sleigh Bells (The Band, Not The Festive Holiday Thing), The Crazy Twists At The End Of Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow And Call Of Duty: Black Ops Dislikes: The Alliance (Even When I Don’t Have Much Time To Play WOW, My Hatred Remains Strong), Running A Fever During Deadline Week, Wide-Ranging Industry Layoffs, Preparing For Holiday Travel, Minnesota Winter Beginning Again (YUCK) Current Favorite Games: Ys: The Oath in Felghana, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, LEGO Universe

Jeff Marchiafava Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: The Massive Bump In The Quality Of Our Videos Thanks To The New Video Guy, The New Battlestar Galactica (I Know I’m Late To The Party, But Best Sci-Fi Show Ever!), Playing Rock Band 3’s Keyboard On Pro Mode (Poorly), Narrow Fantasy Football Victories Dislikes: Narrow Fantasy Football Defeats, Shoveling Driveways, The Sun Setting Before 5:00, Being Behind On Game Of The Year Candidates, Receiving New High Score Messages From Co-workers In Pinball FX 2 (It’s The Pinball Equivalent Of Crack) Current Favorite Games: Assassin’s Creed II, Pinball FX 2, Rock Band 3, Super Meat Boy

Dan Ryckert Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: McRib, Making Stupid Emblems In Black Ops, The Ending Of Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow, The Name Launchpad McQuack, T-Shirt Cannons, Sharp Cheddar, Free Bird, Conan Finally Being Back On Television, The New Mortal Kombat’s Subway Fatality, The Room Dislikes: Medal of Honor, Cosplay, Mild Cheddar, That Khe Sahn Mission Not Properly Explaining The Barrel Crap, Kato Having No Interest In Ever Seeing Terminator 2, Blocked Salivary Glands, Jay Leno, Puzzles That Require Me To Redirect Light With Mirrors Current Favorite Games: Donkey Kong Country Returns, Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow, Pinball FX 2, Call Of Duty: Black Ops, Super Meat Boy, DJ Hero 2, The Sly Collection, Kirby’s Epic Yarn 

Tim Turi Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Go Bwaa!, This Castlevania Retrospective, Conan, Classical Minnesota Public Radio, LEGO, Resistance: The Gathering Storm, Count Dracula, Halloween, The Devil’s House, Turning 25, Monster Truck Shows, Crossing The Ocean For The First Time, "Vampire Killer," Modern Family Dislikes: Skyline (Was The Ending Intentionally That Awful?), Buying Gas, Visiting The Dentist, Buying A New Birth Certificate Because The Passport Agency Lost It (Seriously, Of All The Organizations To Lose That Thing…), Spoiled Milk, Blisters, Loud Talkers, How Much I Like This Video Current Favorite Games: Super Meat Boy, Enslaved: Odyssey To The West, Valkyria Chronicles II, Sonic Fan Remix, Silent Hill 4: The Room, Donkey Kong Country 3, Kirby’s Epic Yarn, Castlevania, Sonic Colors DS