GI Staff And Reader Interests, Dislikes, And Favorite Games: Issue #215

The Game Informer monthly staff page is 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: I’m Gonna Put The Archers Of Loaf In My Interests Until They Come Play In Minneapolis (I Would Like To Request The Entry or Triple Rock), Cloud Cult, Kanye West, Crystal Castles' "Not In Love" Making Me Listen To The Cure All Over Again, Jose Gonzalez, Getting Psyched For Bicycle Season (Speaking Of, Trek Or Whatever Other Bike Company That Knows Gold When They See It, Feel Free To Sponsor Me) Dislikes: The Fact That I Am Not The Commissioner Of The Video Game Industry And Able To Stop All These Companies From Doing The Same Dumb S--- Over And Over (I Know I’d Vote For Me) – Plus I Could Then Make Sure A High Definition Wii Gets Made With Metroid 2HD As The Launch Game Pack-In Featuring 150 Hours of Gameplay, The Curveball That Life Sometimes Throws That Simply Can’t Be Hit, The Wait For Bulletstorm and Dragon Age 2 That Is Currently Torturing Me Current Favorite Games: Dead Space 2, World Of Warcraft, Marvel Vs Capcom 3: Fate Of Two Worlds

Andrew Reiner Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Games That Offer A True "New Game+" (I'll Gladly Play A Game Over Again If New Challenges Or Rewards Are Offered), The Onslaught Of Quality Comic Book Movies (Even Thor Looks Great), Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Baseball Card Collecting (I Love Opening Packs Of Cards) Dislikes: Kinect's Post-Launch Software Drought, HBO's A Game Of Thrones Adaptation Stealing Away George R.R. Martin's Writing Time (Now We'll Never See The End Of This Series!), November Once Again Looking Like A Game Release Train Wreck (Can We Make November An Entire Year?) Current Favorite Games: Bulletstorm, Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, Stacking, Call Of Duty: Black Ops, Super Meat Boy, Dead Space 2

Matt Helgeson Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: The Return Of The Strokes, Finally Watching Deadwood (One Of The Best TV Shows Of All Time), Re-Reading Infinite Jest By David Foster Wallace, Thinking About Spring Dislikes: Battling Ice Dams On My Roof, The Crushing Melancholy Of Endless Winter (Sadly, Not A Black Metal Album, It's Reality In Minnesota), Smart Phone Commercials That Are Basically About How Smart Phones Are Turning Us Into Rude A-Holes Current Favorite Games: Tales From Space: About A Blob, The Bulletstorm Demo, Bejeweled 3, Crossword DS

Matthew Kato Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: The Town, Ricky Gervais' Roasting Of Hollywood Narcissists, Reissues For Suede, The Kinks, And Ride, Ken Loaches' Kes, Freeze-Dried
Ice Cream Dislikes: The Mere Idea That Fletch Needs To Be Remade, The New Wild-West-Meets-Modern-LA Concept For Call Of Juarez: The Cartel, Beady Eye (Worse Name Than Oasis), Waiting For The ICO/Shadow Of The Colossus Re-Release, Living In Fear Of The NGP Price (You Know It Ain't Gonna Be A
Good Price) Current Favorite Games: Fight Night Champion, Dirt 3, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters, Shift 2: Unleashed

Adam Biessener Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: My Soon-To-Be New Phone (Dual Cores? Why Not!), Looking For A New Car, The New-Old Case For My PC, My Newfound Love For All Things OutKast, New Socks (So Warm And Cushy!) Dislikes: My Old Dying Car, Old Problems With My House Rearing Their Ugly Heads, Old Games Not Working Properly On New Machines, My Daimyo Dying Of Old Age Current Favorite Games: Total War: Shogun 2, Dungeons, Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, Rift

Joe Juba Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Hilarious Photoshop Mistakes, The Passage By Justin Cronin, Insisting That A Ham Sandwich Can Be Called A "Hamwich," Totally Exploiting Dead Space 2, Non-Obnoxious Animated Gifs, Axe Cop (It Is Still So Awesome) Dislikes: Horseradish And Mustard (a.k.a. The Idiot's Condiments), Being So Close And Yet So Far From The Wise Man's Fear, The Phrase "Not Unlike" (The Word You Want Is "Like"), Feeling Like I Have To Watch The Plan But Knowing That It Will Suck Current favorite games: Dead Space 2, Radiant Historia, Final Fantasy XII (I Still Love These Characters), Two Worlds II

Matt Miller Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Bryan’s Streaming TV Evangelism, Playing The Dragon Age DLC Right Before The Sequel Releases, Veronica Mars (You See, She’s In High School, But She’s Also A Detective…), True Grit, An iPhone Option That Doesn’t Involve AT&T Dislikes: Batman Inc. (This Is Not A Good Idea), End User License Agreements (Who Can Even Understand Those?), Square Enix’s Strange Naming Conventions Current Favorite Games: World Of Warcraft, Rock Band 3, Gran Turismo 5, Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening

Matt Bertz Profile E-mail Editor

Likes: Archer, The Surging Wild, Damages, Ricky Gervais Ripping Celebs At The Golden Globes, 2 Bands 1 Cup At Triple Rock Social Club, My New Nikon D7000 Dislikes: Packers Winning The Super Bowl, Reality TV, No 64-Player Console Support In Battlefield 3 Current Favorite Games: Game Dev Story, Battlefield 3, L.A. Noire

Jeff Cork Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Rooting My Phone So I Can Install Amazing (And Amazingly Nerdy) ROMs, Pajama Day, Waffles As Sandwich Bread, Growing Horrible Beards Dislikes: Typing Out Lists Of Interests On My Phone's Virtual Keyboard, Hotel Pillows, Banana Runts, Banana Anything That Isn't An Actual Banana Current Favorite Games: Two Worlds II, Rock Band 3, Stacking, You Don't Know Jack

Ben Reeves Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Dorkly Bits, The Most Illegal Thing In Wrestling History, Poker Tournaments Dislikes: Losing Poker Tournaments, Losing Super Bowl Bets, Not Being Allowed To Play With The Minnesota Roller Girls, Trying To Stay Away From Soda, Hanging Out With A Bunch Of Dudes On V-Day (Weird) Current Favorite Games: Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate Of Two Worlds, Back To The Future: The Game, Dead Rising 2, Borderlands (Again, I Just Can’t Quit It), Amnesia, Cut The Rope

Bryan Vore Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: The New Radiohead Album And Its Announcement Only A Few Days Before Its Release, Arcade Fire Winning Album Of The Year At The Grammys Somehow, That Wedding Business Seems To Be Coming Together Without Too Much Headache Dislikes: Finally Breaking Down And Buying One Of Those Overpriced Wi-Fi Adaptors For My Upstairs Xbox 360 (Gotta Have Netflix And Up-To-Date Game Patches) Current Favorite Games: Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow, Hard Corps: Uprising, Ilomilo

Meagan Marie Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Updating My Tumblr, Getting My Hands On Hunted: The Demon's Forge, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, The NGP, GDC 2011, Watching Battlestar Galactica Again, Parks And Recreation, Traveling Across The Country To Shoot With Jay Tablante, Any Art By Genzoman, Attending My First Convention As A Featured Guest! Dislikes: That This Batman Dress Is Massively Overpriced, My Car Making Foreign Noises, Surprise Insurance Payments, Being Cold! Current Favorite Games: Fable III, Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit

Annette Gonzalez Profile E-mail Editor

Like: Upcoming Vacation To Miami, Traveling To Warmer Climates, Chocolate Whips Yogurt, Adding Kinect To My Workout Regimen Dislikes: Ongoing Winter, Myself For Watching Jersey Shore Games:  Mass Effect 2, Dance Central, Words With Friends, Borderlands

Philip Kollar Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: My Awesome First Trip To Japan, More Cool Travel Plans For The Near Future, Writing Words, Community, Watching Old Sci-Fi/Horror Movies While Drinking At Club Jäger, Learning To Love Downloadable And Handheld Games Again, The People's Key by Bright Eyes Dislikes: Activision's Terrible Business Decisions Costing Talented Developers Jobs, Winter (Yet Again), Penny Arcade's Handling Of The Dickwolves Scandal, Other All-Too-Frequent Acts Of Internet Hate, That FatUglyorSlutty.com Exists And Is Necessary Current Favorite Games: Ilomilo, Ghost Trick, Dragon Quest VI, Beyond Good & Evil HD, Dead Space 2, Majin & the Forsaken Kingdom, Picross DS, Two Worlds 2

Jeff Marchiafava Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: How Amazing L.A. Noire Is Looking, Lazy Weekends, Louie: Season 1, DICE Going All Out For Battlefield 3’s Multiplayer, Secret Trips To Dallas To See Secret Games Dislikes: The Single Digit Temperatures That Greeted Me In Dallas (Isn’t The South Supposed To Be Warm?), The Fact That Dallas Was Still Significantly Warmer Than Minnesota, Floorboards That Rattle When The Heat Comes On, Waiting For 2011’s Awesome Games Current Favorite Games: Stacking, Dead Space, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Still), Minecraft

Dan Ryckert Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Commando, Daily Show And Colbert Returning To Hulu, Walmart, Motörhead, Top Ramen, Louis C.K., Will Forte Playing Ted Turner On Conan Dislikes: Rush, Everything That Happened During The Super Bowl Halftime Show, Jimmy Buffett, Hulk Hogan And His Stupid Tweets, Olivia Munn Crapping Up The Daily Show Current Favorite Games: Dead Space 2, LittleBigPlanet 2, Bulletstorm, NARC, Duke Nukem Forever

Tim Turi Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Water Jet Packs, Vegetables, The 3DS, Nick Thune, Comedy Death Ray, P90, Having More Time To Play Games, Ducktales' Moon Theme, Drunken Spelling Bees, Milk And Cereal, The IT Crowd, Paul F. Tompkins, Supertramp, Count Dracula Dislikes: Windchills Approaching -50 Degrees, Tony Horton’s Dumb Jokes, Dan Ryckert, Buying Gas, Eye Strain, What’s Happening With Vampires These Days Current Favorite Games: Bulletstorm, Dead Space 2, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Super Metroid, Super Meat Boy, Hard Corps: Uprising

Ben Hanson  Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Thinking Up Levels For Little Big Planet 2, Losing Interest In Past Levels that I've Thought Up For Little Big Planet 2, The Ultimates Dislikes: People Strongly Recommending Time-Consuming Media, Scouring Tech Forums, Landlords Current Favorite Games: Donkey Kong Country Returns, Starcraft 2, Little Big Planet 2, Stacking (Pre-Emptive Love)