GI Staff And Reader Interests, Dislikes, And Favorite Games: Issue #222

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: Friday Night Lights, Mad Men, NFL Football,Cycling, Kidneys, Recovery Dislikes: Anyone That I Run Into Randomly On The Streets Who Doesn’t Really Play Games But Realizes I Work At Game Informer Then Proceeds To Tell Me Why Angry Birds And Cut The Rope Are The Greatest Games Ever Created, Being Away From Work For A Month To Donate A Kidney To My Brother (But I Like Giving Him A Kidney) Current Favorite Games: Ico and Shadow of the Colossus Collection, Crimson Alliance, L.A. Noire, God of War: Origins Collection, Gears of War 3

Andrew Reiner Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Traveling Through 25 Years of Zelda History Over The Last Month, 3DS Finally Landing Must-Play Software, Gears of War 3's Horde Mode (What An Amazing Test Of Teamwork & Skill), Collecting Marvel's 3 3/4 Figures, The Chicago Cubs' Season Mercifully Coming To An End, Touring With My Band (Tripping Icarus) Dislikes: Star Wars' Blu-Ray Deleted Scenes (Did Leia Have To Kiss Luke That Much?), Google Plus (I Gave It A Shot And Prefer My Facebook/Twitter Cocktail Instead), Game Strategizing During The Busy Holiday Season (Two Hundred Hours Go To Elder Scrolls V. Now I Have To Figure Out How To Slide In 20 Other Games) Current Favorite Games: Gears of War 3, Rage, Dead Island, Catherine, El Shaddai, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Matt Helgeson Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: NFL, Finally Getting Started On A Dance With Dragons, Motown, Lou Reed & Metallica (!!) Dislikes: The Vikings 0-2 Start, The Green Hornet, Watching The Last Episode Of Deadwood (One Of The Greatest TV Series Ever, Wish There Were Another Five Seasons) Current Favorite Games: Tetris Free (Android), Game Dev Story (Android), Portal 2, Rage

Matthew Kato Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Jessica Lea Mayfield, Ringo Deathstarr, Deep Cut – "Something's Got To Give," That The Upcoming Hockey Season Hasn't Already Been Ruined For Me Like The Football One, R.E.M. Breaking Up Dislikes: Sniffing For Cat Urine On Your Carpet The Old-Fashioned Way (It Involves Burying The Bridge Of Your Nose Down In The Carpet Shag), Zooey Deschanel (Babe, You're Overexposed), The Word "Quirky" (See Previous), Casio Keyboards (Can't Think Of A Reason They Need To Exist) Current Favorite Games: Pro Evolution Soccer 2012, FIFA 2012, Ico And The Shadow Of The Colossus Collection, Assassin's Creed Revelations

Adam Biessener Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Having A Clean Desk (For Now), The Improved 360 D-pad, Fall Food (Squash, Soup, Squash Soup…It's All Awesome), Minecraft Finally Moving Toward Actually Being A Game, Portishead – Third, They Might Be Giants – Join Us Dislikes: House Maintenance (Nothing Makes You Want To Go Back To Renting Like Random $1,000+ Repairs), My Crazy Neighbor Leaving Cat Food In My Driveway To Attract Hordes Of Alley Cats Who Poop All Over My Yard, Bad Checkpoint Design Current Favorite Games: Minecraft, Gears of War 3, Disgaea 4, Tropico 4, Androminion

Joe Juba Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Motherless Brooklyn By Jonathan Lethem, Commercial Kings, Ni No Kuni Coming To North America, Some Parts Of Rubber, Water Fountain Art, Um…  Dislikes: Car Shopping, Gutter Cleaning, Most Parts Of Rubber, The "Update An Old Series By Making It An FPS" Trend, The Unattainability Of These, This Awful Quiz Current Favorite Games: El Shaddai: Ascension Of The Metatron, Shadows Of The Damned, From Dust, Catherine

Matt Miller Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Louie's Second Season, X-Men Schism (I've Been Waiting For This Fight For 20 Years!), DC's Continuity Reboot (Even If I Only Like About Half Of The New Comics), Transformers 25th Anniversary Unicron, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Dislikes: Getting Your Flight Delayed After Already Boarding The Aircraft, Qwikster (The Name, Not The Service), The Impending Barrage Of Political Advertising in 2012 Current Favorite Games: Diablo III, Gears Of War 3, Dead Space 2, Renegade Ops, El Shaddai: Ascension Of The Metatron

Matt Bertz Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Fall Weather, The New Season Of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Keeping Adrian Peterson In Purple, The Atlantic Monthly, Going To Paris For Work, The NBA's Greatest Mode in NBA 2K12, Friday Night Lights Earning A Fourth Quarter Emmy, October 25 (Battlefield 3 + New Tom Waits Album = Heaven) Dislikes: The Vikings' Prospects This Season, The Pending NBA Lockout, Transcribing Days Worth Of Interviews Current Favorite Games: Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Batman: Arkham City, NHL 12, NBA 2K12, Gears of War 3

Jeff Cork Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Assembling My New PC And Having Everything Actually Work, Unpacking, Reiner’s Near-Bottomless Candy Tub, Finally Rejoining The World Of Contemporary PC Gaming (I Missed You, Honest!), Watching Ben Reeves From A Safe Distance Dislikes: PC Sticker Shock, Stringing Speaker Wire Behind Walls, Dungeon Six Current Favorite Games: Pinball FX 2, Dead Rising 2: Off The Record, Diablo III, Bejeweled Blitz

Ben Reeves Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Drinking Beer (Minnesota Beer Fest), High Fives, Seeing Anthony Jeselnik Live, Watching Swamp People While Frying Up Some Alligator, The New Tommy Wiseau Show, Visiting Historic Colorado Landmarks Now That I’m Not Living There Dislikes: Not Living In Colorado, Missing Out On The Tokyo Game Show (Even If It Was Lame) Current Favorite Games: Gears of War 3, Mario's Picross, Jetpack Joyride, Plants Vs. Zombies, Solar 2, Ms. Splosion Man

Bryan Vore Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Spotify, The Drums -- Portamento, How Weird It Is To Watch Television Live Now With Commercials And Everything Instead Of Streaming It, Wild Flag, Girls -- Father, Son, Holy Ghost Dislikes: The Holes In Spotify's Music Catalog, Waiting For Professor Layton Vs. Ace Attorney, Waiting For The iPhone 5 Like Every Other 3Gs Owner Current Favorite Games: Aliens: Infestation, Ms. Splosion Man, The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time 3D, Rage, Jeypack Joyride

Philip Kollar Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Being Able To Sleep After Finishing My First Cover Story, Seeing All The Love And Excitement For Zelda, Preparing To Die (In Video Games), The Devil In The White City By Erik Larson, Between The Concrete And Clouds By Kevin Devine, Amazing New Fun Song Featuring Janelle Monae, Finally Getting The Galerians Super Replay Started, Drive Dislikes: Limited Time To Play All The Awesome Games Showing Up In The Office, Diablo III Beta Access Showing Up At The Worst Time Possible, Sleep, Lack Of Sleep, Delirium Current Favorite Games: Dead Island, Dark Souls, Demon’s Souls, Gears Of War 3, Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning

Jeff Marchiafava Profile E-mail Editor

Interest: This Season Of Breaking Bad Almost Being Over (I’m Waiting So I Can Watch It In Its Entirety), Rock Band 3’s Pro Guitar And Instructional Mode (How Has This Not Put Music Teachers Out Of Business?), Stealing Annette’s Cake Pan And Tormenting Her With Pictures Of The Delicious Cake I Baked With It Dislikes: Yard Work (I’m So Scratched Up From Ripping Out Bushes That I Look Like I Got Attacked By A Tiger), Tetris: The Grand Master Never Getting Released In The U.S., Winter Current Favorite Games: Dead Island, Rock Band 3, UniWar (Android), Pinball FX 2, Tetris The Grand Master

Dan Ryckert Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Going To Japan For The First Time, Eating All Of Japan’s Curry, Constantly Beating Ben Hanson In Jetpack Joyride, Being Morbidly Fascinated By The New Lou Reed/Metallica Album, Intervention, This Awesome Cosplay I Saw At TGS, Karaoke, Appreciating American Food More Than Ever Dislikes: Sitting On The Runway For Over Four Hours, Navigating The TGS Floor Once It Was Open To The Public, Tim’s Freaky Eyeballs Current Favorite Games: Killzone 3, Soulcalibur V, Jetpack Joyride, The Legend Of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, NFL Blitz

Tim Turi Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Devil In The White City, Madmen, Beer, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band’s “Blinded By The Light,” Karaoke In Japan, Ramen, Coco Curry, Roppongi, Japan, All Of The Things In Japan, Reddit Dislikes: Tragic Fires, Moving, Soggy Pizza, Fake Resident Evil 6 Trailers, Japan’s Freaking Humidity Current Favorite Games: Resistance 3, Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, Bastion, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Dead Island, Jetpack Joyride

Ben Hanson Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Finally Wrapping Up The Larry Sanders Show On Netflix, Stand-up Comedy, Attempting To Set Up A Starcraft 2 “LAN” Party, Not Getting Sick, Looking Forward To The Day When I Crush Dan Ryckert’s Score In Jetpack Joyride Dislikes: None, I Love Everything And Everybody Except For Dan Ryckert Current Favorite Games: Jetpack Joyride, Age Of Empires Online, Space Marine, LA Noire, KOTOR

Kyle Hilliard Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Batman, Zombies, Between The Buried And Me, Karate (The Band The Not Fighting Form), Chiptunes, Movies That Take Place In Space And Scary Things Happen, Podcasts Hosted By Comedians, Podcasts Hosted By Ira Glass, Podcasts called Radiolab, The Return Of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia And Community To Television Dislikes: Being Temporarily Separated From My Pregnant Wife While I Begin My New Job, The Fact That Today Isn't Skyward Sword's Release Date, The Fact That Today Isn't Batman: Arkham City's Release Date Current Favorite Games: The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time, Portal 2, Limbo, The 'Splosion People Games, Mega Man X