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GI Staff And Reader Interests, Dislikes, And Favorite Games: Issue #216
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
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Interests: Designing "Stuff," Cycling (Yes, I Have Started Even Watching It On Versus. I Have A Sickness), Sleep, Tigerblood, iPad 2, All The Awesome Games We Are Looking At For Future Covers (So Much Awesome For You To Learn About In The Future), Radiohead, John Legend, Trail Of Dead Dislikes: Deadlines That Could Kill A Normal Human, When The Site Doesn¹t Work Like It Is Supposed To (*** You To Hell, Internet), Eating In A "Temporary Kitchen" (Read Laundry Room) As My Kitchen Is Redone, The Fact That My Office Is 95 Degrees In The Middle Of Winter (I¹m Writing This In My Underpants) Currently Favorite Games: Bulletstorm, Dead Space 2, World Of Warcraft, Dragon Age II
Andrew Reiner
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Interests: 3DS (Star Fox, Zelda, Kid Icarus; This Is A Classic Gamer's Dream Come True), Baseball Season (Is This The Cubs' Year?), iPad's MLB AT Bat App, The Walking Dead Comic (The Show? Not So Much) Dislikes: ESPN's Rock & Roll Tournament (Stick To Sports, Please), Midwest Sushi, 3DS & iPad 2 Coming Out In The Same Month (Savings Gone) Current Favorite Games: MLB 11: The Show, Homefront, Killzone 3, Bulletstorm, Torchlight, StarCraft II
Matt Helgeson
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Interests: The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss, Silkworm, Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, James Franco, HBO’s Game Of Thrones Dislikes: Winter, Icicles, Ankle Injuries, Charlie Sheen Mania (#winning #stfu), Current Season Of Saturday Night Live Current Favorite Games: Angry Birds, Soulcaster, Top Spin 4, The Club
Matthew Kato
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Interests: Eating My Son's Snacks (He Didn't Pay For Them In The First Place), Louis C.K.'s Hilarious DVD, The 33 1/3rd Book Series, My Kindle, Driving A Porsche Dislikes: The iPhone 4’s Shuffle Function, Trying To Read A Book And Watch TV At The Same Time (Conclusion: It Doesn’t Work – But That Hasn’t Stopped Me From Trying), The Kinect Game Drought (And I Don’t Even Own The Thing), GDC Sessions That Just Sound Like Game Marketing Demos, Jim Tressel & Ohio State Current Favorites: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood DLC: The Da Vinci Disappearance, Shift 2 Unleashed
Adam Biessener
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Interests: The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss, A Dance With Dragons Having A Release Date, Technology That Accomplishes What It Is Advertised To Do, All Of The Discworld Novels But Particularly The Guardsmen And Witches Ones, MMOs That Encourage Players To Play With One Another, Ditching iPhone For Android Dislikes: The Weather (All Of It), All Of Apple's Platforms But Particularly iOS, Apple's Business Practices, Apple's Marketing, How No Matter How Hard I Try I Can't Hate On Apple's Hardware (Except For The Laughable Prices), Lack Of Android Games, My Phone Not Being Rooted Yet, Current Favorite Games: Rift, Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, Minecraft, Civilization V, Total War: Shogun 2
Joe Juba
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Interests: The Passage (This Book Should Be A Video Game), Holy Crap!, A Dance With Dragons' Official Release Date (Though I'll Only Believe It When I'm Holding The Book In My Hands), Being Just Like General Iro When I'm An Old Man (Yes, I've watched Avatar: The Last Airbender. Wanna fight about it?) Dislikes: Waiting To Read The Wise Man's Fear (I Need To Re-Read The Name Of The Wind First), A New Thundercats Cartoon (Spoiler: It Looks Like Garbage), The Ratio Of Good iPhone Apps To Terrible Ones (Do Not Download Robocop!), Current Favorite Games: Dragon Age II, Torchlight, Two Worlds II, Stacking
Matt Miller
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Interests: Mansions Of Madness, The Wise Man's Fear By Patrick Rothfuss, Zita The Space Girl By Ben Hatke, Legend of the Seeker On Instant Queue, The Adjustment Bureau, Having A Functional Phone Dislikes: Dealing With All The Hassle Of A New Phone, Snow Shoveling (What Do You Mean I've Had This On Here Before?), End User License Agreements Current Favorite Games: World Of Warcraft, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Fight Night Champion, Transformers: War For Cybertron, Rift, Bit.Trip Flux, Rock Band 3, Infinity Blade, Battleheart
Matt Bertz
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Interests: Mesrine: Killer Instinct, Hard Ground by Tom Waits And Michael O’Brien, Finally A Hard Date For A Dance With Dragons, How Radiohead Albums Open Up Over Repeated Listens, Only One Month Until A Game of Thrones Debuts On HBO!, Every Pasta On The Bar La Grassa Menu Dislikes: The Potential NFL Lockout, The LA Vikings Chatter (Get The Stadium Done Post Haste!), The Unintuitive Gawker Redesign, Union Busting Current Favorite Games: Bulletstorm, Fight Night Champion, FIFA 11, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 – Vietnam
Jeff Cork
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Interests: Shamrock Shakes, Finally Getting Around To Taking An Inventory Of My Game Collection, Finally Beating Alan Wake, Finally Getting Around To Doing Things I Should Have Taken Care Of A Long Time Ago, A Dance With Dragons Getting A Release Date (Speaking Of Finally) Dislikes: Shoveling My Big Dumb Driveway For The Millionth Time, This Sad As Hell Video, The Fact That I Keep Forgetting About My DC Universe Online Subscription Current Favorite Games: Torchlight, Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition, Two Worlds II, Bejeweled Blitz Live
Ben Reeves
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Interests: All The Retrospectives at GDC (Who Knew That Peter Molyneux Used To Run A Baked Beans Export Company Before Gaming?), Black Swan, Exit Through The Gift Shop, Crazy Karaoke Nights (Sounds Like It Should Be A Movie, But It Was My Life), San Francisco Sourdough Bread Bowls And Clam Chowder (A Perfect Combo) Dislikes: Getting Locked Inside A Cell In Alcatraz Current Favorite Games: Bulletstorm, Halo: Reach, Darksiders, Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate Of Two Worlds, Back To The Future: The Game Episode II
Bryan Vore
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Interests: Catching Up With Everyone At GDC, The Lord Of The Rings Extended Cuts Finally Heading To Blu-Ray, The Whole Star Wars Series Heading To Blu-Ray, Clearing Every Stage In Ilomilo The Day The New Expansion Comes Out Dislikes: Finally Having To Read Those Game Of Thrones Books Now That The Series Has Come Out Of Hibernation, How Long It's Taking Me To Get Through Kato's Copy Of A John Lennon Biography (It's Great, But I Need To Pick Up The Pace) Current Favorite Games: The Darkness II, Infinity Blade, Bulletstorm, Dead Space 2, Hard Corps: Uprising, Ilomilo
Meagan Marie
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Interests: Musing Over Who Will Play Lara Croft In The New Movie, Working On A Secret Costume For SDCC 2011, The Nintendo 3DS, Stumbling Upon “Closet Cosplayers” Who Also Work In the Industry, Doing Promo Work For ZombieAmmo, Jumping Back Into Photography, Getting New Glasses, This Pig Dislikes: The Misleading Tone Of Dead Island’s Trailer, Getting Sick The First Day Of GDC, Snow (Still), My Massive Comic Book Backlog, The Fact That My Trusty Horse Decided To Run Off A Cliff And Drown Himself In Red Dead Redemption, That I’m Out Of Parks And Recreation Episodes To Watch, DC Direct’s Ame-Comi Zatanna Halloween Variant Current Favorite Games: Torchlight, Red Dead Redemption, Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D, Batman: Arkham City
Annette Gonzalez
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Interests: Wii Controller Charging Dock, The Insane Number Of Meals You Can Get From A Loaf Of Bread And Eggs, Hulu Plus Cementing My Decision To Cancel Cable, Upcoming Vacation To Miami Dislikes: The Death Of My PSP Battery, Return To Midwest Winter After A Week In California Favorite Games: Dead Space 2, Infinity Blade, LittleBigPlanet 2, Call Of Duty: Black Ops
Philip Kollar
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Interests: My First Trip To New York City And My Awesome Friends Who Live There, Discovering That Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning Looks Great, New Manchester Orchestra Songs, Our Awesome GDC Coverage, Finally Having Time To Jump Back Into Battlestar Galactica Dislikes: Missing GDC And My Awesome Friends Who Live In San Francisco, Winter Still Not Being Done, Increasingly Minimal Amount Of Time To Play Games Current Favorite Games: Rift, Picross DS, Dragon Quest VI, Dragon Age II, Gray Matter
Jeff Marchiafava
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Interests: Burning Through The First Three Seasons Of Breaking Bad (Amazing Show!), Playing Words With Friends With Family And Co-Workers, Writing Nerdy Sci-Fi Features, The Awesome Gameplay Video For Battlefield 3, Seeing The Snow Mounds In Minnesota Are Finally Starting To Melt Dislikes: The Inevitable Blizzard That Will Blanket Our State Again When We Least Expect It, Predators And The Expendables Both Being Major Disappointments (Even With Such A Low Bar To Step Over, They Both Stumbled), Video Game Journalists Who Don’t Know The Difference Between Good Attention And Bad Attention Favorite Games: Saints Row: The Third, ilomilo, Hard Corps: Uprising
Dan Ryckert
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Interests: White Castle, Jeff And Joe Finally Watching Breaking Bad, Those Shark-Shaped Fruit Snacks, Making A Guinness World Record Attempt, Super Mario 3DS, My Fight Night Champion Entrance, Pizza Hut’s Big Dipper, Drive Angry Dislikes: Adrien Brody, Rush, This Year’s Oscars, Gwyneth Paltrow, Realizing Via Netflix That Mid-To-Late 90s SNL Hasn’t Aged Well, Colin Quinn Current Favorite Games: Fight Night Champion, Bulletstorm, Dead Space 2, You Don’t Know Jack, Torchlight, Words With Friends, Tiny Wings, Earthbound
Tim Turi
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Interests: This Sonic Colors Song, The Minibosses, Eraserhead, The Advantage, David Lynch, The Walking Dead Comic, Warmer Weather, Gourmet Egg Salad Sandwiches, Dogtooth, “Kraid’s Lair” Track From Metroid, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Marshmallow Crème, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Trailer Park Boys, Supertramp, Let The Right One In, My Niece Killing At Angry Birds Dislikes: The 2011 Oscars, Schizophrenic Shower Temperatures, Black Swan, Kids Growing Up Without Classic Games, Getting Sick, Waking Up, Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow Reverie DLC Being Delayed, Waiting For My Tax Return, Current Favorite Games: The Gunstringer, Batman: Arkham City, Dead Space 2, Hard Corps: Uprising, Super Mario World, Resident Evil, Super Metroid, Fight Night Champion, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Overblood
Ben Hanson
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Interests: Breaking Bad, Comedy Death-Ray Podcast, Watching Snow Melt As I Salivate Dislikes: Grocery Stores, Clothing Stores, Sirens, DS Hand Cramps Current Favorite Games: PixelJunk Shooter 2, Rock Band 3 (DS), League Of Evil, Tiny Wings, Mass Effect
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