GI Staff And Reader Interests, Dislikes, And Favorite Games: Issue #211

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: Football Season, Boardwalk Empire, Dexter, The Wire, Bikes, World Series of Poker (The TV Show) Dislikes: That I Don’t Have Someone Bankrolling Me To Be In The World Series of Poker Main Event, "Poodle" Jump Current Favorite Games: Darksiders, World of Warcraft, Bayonetta, World Series of Poker (iPhone), Peggle (I Got Addicted Again)

Andrew Reiner Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Community (Best New Show Since It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia), Kinect & Move (Experimenting With New Gadgets Is Always Fun, Especially With Great Games Like Dance Central And Sports Champions), Tripping Icarus’ New Album Perfect Citizen (Shameless Plug) Dislikes: Playing Co-op Games With Phil Kollar (He’s terrible), Transformers: The Dark Of The Moon (I’m Guessing Pink Floyd Was Listened To During The Writing Phase), Playoff Baseball Without The Cubs, Nintendo Announcing 3DS For Spring Release (The Holidays Are Going To Leave Me A Poor Man) Current Favorite Games: Fallout: New Vegas, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Castlevania: Lords of Darkness,  Plants Vs. Zombies (360 Version), Kirby’s Epic Yarn

Matt Helgeson Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Finally Starting Darksiders, Rewatching Arrested Development On Netflix Streaming, New Season Of 30 Rock, The Return Of Randy Moss Dislikes: The New York Yankees, Comcast Rebranding As “Xfinity” Instead Of Fixing Their On Demand Problems, EA’s Gutlessness (“Opposing Force”? GTFO), Worrying About The Outcome Of The Supreme Court Video Game Case Current Favorite Games: Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, Darksiders, BioShock Infinite (Yeah, It’s Not Even Out Yet But *** This Looks Great), Red Dead Redemption

Matthew Kato Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Quisp Cereal, The Homecoming Of Randy Moss, My New iPhone 4, Going Back And Playing Heavy Rain Dislikes: How Practically All The EA Sports Games This Year Have Legacy Issues & Half-Realized Career Modes, All The Zombie Content In Weird Places Like Red Dead Redemption, Twins Fans Trying To Play The Loveable Losers Card (You’ve Got A Top-10 Payroll. There Are No Excuses Anymore), My Weird Disinterest In Finishing Playing Mass Effect 2’s Lair Of The Shadow Broker DLC Current Favorite Games: Pro Evolution Soccer 2011, NHL 11, Gran Turismo 5, Test Drive Unlimited 2, NASCAR The Game 2011

Adam Biessener Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: The Annual Autumn Brew Review, Clean Ductwork, Advil PM (I Finally Figured Out How To Sleep On A Plane!), GOG.com Not Being Dead, Improving My Sudoku Times, Red Seas Under Red Skies By Scott Lynch, Building Floating Glass Castles Dislikes: GOG.com's Stupid Marketing Stunt, The Cost Of Having One's Ductwork Cleaned, People Who Let My Cat Out (Close The *** Door!), Umpires Blowing This Many Calls In The Playoffs, The Twins Being Generally Ineffective, The New York Yankees Current Favorite Games: Minecraft, Enjoy Sudoku Daily, Civilization V, World of Warcraft, Might & Magic VII, Plants vs. Zombies XBLA, Braid, Limbo

Joe Juba Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Hoarders (It's Funny Because It Isn't Anyone I Know), Starting Buffy The Vampire Slayer So People Will Shut Up And Stop Recommending It To Me, Apple Orchards, The Donuts At Apple Orchards, New KOS-MOS Toys, Novelty Size Sandwiches Dislikes: Season 3 Of Skins (I Loved The First Two. What Happened?), Tony Danza's Rapping Alter-Ego Italian Ice, Dan's Denial That He's A Hipster (He Totally Is), The Fact That Valkyria Chronicles 3 Isn't On Consoles Current Favorite Games: God of War: Ghost Of Sparta, Valkyria Chronicles II, Professor Layton And The Unwound Future, Dead Rising 2, Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow

Matt Miller Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: The Return of Caprica, Descent: Journeys In The Dark, The Walking Dead (Comic Rocks, Verdict’s Out On The TV Show), Minnesota In The Fall, Striking Down Alexander The Great With A Furious Vengeance After His Ill-Advised Aggression Against My Civilization Dislikes: People Who Don’t Think Games Deserve First Amendment Protections, Outsourced (I Watched The First Episode So You Don’t Have To), Andy Whitfield Not Returning For A Second Season Of Spartacus: Blood And Sand Current Favorite Games: Civilization V, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Halo: Reach, Rock Band 3, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood,

Matt Bertz Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: RANDY MOSS COMING HOME!, Watching The Media Ignore Brett Favre PenisGate 2010, Watching Louis CK Kill It At The State Theater, Boardwalk Empire, Tom Waits Finally Getting A Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Nomination, Eastbound & Down, My Italian Vacation, Christopher Hitchens’ Battle With Cancer Dislikes: Brad Childress, The NHL Starting Its Season At Noon On A Workday, My Broken Samsung HDTV (Way To Cut Corners With Cheap Capacitors, You Jerks!) Current Favorite Games: Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, NBA 2K11, NHL 11, Civilization V

Jeff Cork Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Four-Day Weekends, Purple Shirts, Sleeping, Things That People Like, Antagonizing Dan Dislikes: Raking, String Cheese, Scarves, Getting Mauled By Tigers, Getting Mauled In General Current Favorite Games: Dead Rising 2, Fallout: New Vegas, Rock Band 3

Ben Reeves Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Finding Old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Comics For Dirt Cheap At Half Price Books, Deciding What I’m Going To Be For Zombie Pub Crawl, Hanging Out With People For 24-hour Comic Book Day Dislikes: The Actual Comic I Made For 24-Hour Comic Book Day, Pizza Parties That Turn Into Sandwich Parties, Making A Fool Out Of Myself During Celebrity Interviews (Sorry, Andy Serkis. I Didn’t Mean To Call You The Master Of Beast) Current Favorite Games: Civilization V, Halo: Reach, Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Red Dead Redemption

Bryan Vore Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Heartland Restaurant In St. Paul, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy Coming On November 9, Impending Game Deals During The Holiday Shopping Season, The New Jimmy Eat World And Kings Of Leon Albums Dislikes: Random Power Outages At My House Right Before I Have To Leave For Work (It Better Be Back Up When I Get Home So Help Me!), The Yankees Current Favorite Games: Halo: Reach, Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley, Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep, Professor Layton And The Unwound Future, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood

Meagan Van Burkleo Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Zombie Pub Crawls, Franchise Reboots, Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls Of Ga’Hoole, Locke & Key, Big Names Making Little Games, The Incredible MD, Disney Underground, Nerdy Graphic Design Décor, Lady Mechanika Dislikes: Winter, Splurging On Chipotle And Finding A huge Chunk Of Metal In My Salad, Losing My Borderlands Save File, Resident Evil: Afterlife, The Blue Screen Of Death, Needing Sleep Current Favorite Games: Dead Rising 2, El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron​, Split Second, Super Scribblenauts, Sims 3

Annette Gonzalez Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Catching Up On TV Shows (Modern Family, Arrested Development), Dancing And Rapping At Work For Review Games, Tomato Soup, Robots Dislikes: Family Matters Theme Song (Co-workers Got It Stuck In My Head), Knowing The City Will Be Covered In Snow Soon, LittleBigPlanet 2 Delay Current Favorite Games: BioShock 2 Minerva’s Den DLC, Dance Central, Dead Space 2, Kirby’s Epic Yarn, Rock Band 3, The Last Guardian, Ico/Shadow Collection

Philip Kollar Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Catfish, The Social Network, My Chemical Romance’s new single, Weird Japanese Games, Indian Food, Monster Party Dislikes: An MMO Launching Without Enough Content Or Polish, Fanboys Arguing That MMOs Can’t Be Criticized In Their First Month (If People Are Buying It And Paying a Monthly Fee, The Publisher Should Be Prepared For Criticism), My Distressing Lack Of Free Time To Play The Insane Number Of New Games That Are Coming Out (I’ve Still Barely Touched Halo: Reach And Civilization V!) Current Favorite Games: World Of Warcraft, Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow, Kirby’s Epic Yarn, Halo: Reach, Golden Sun, Etrian Odyssey, Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley

Jeff Marchiafava Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Smoking Through Halo: Reach’s Legendary Mode With The Other Editors, Discovering How Awesome And Addictive Minecraft Is, Finally Winning A Match In Our Football Fantasy League (Sorry, Sean), The Ever-Growing Variety Of Netflix’s Watch Instantly Selection Dislikes: The Fact That Most Of Netflix’s Watch Instantly Movies Are Still Crap, Knowing That The Twins Are Probably Going To Lose To The Yankees, Marques Colston’s Continued Subpar Performance, Halo: Reach’s Stupid Matchmaking Offerings (The Game Has A Lot Of Cool New Game Types – Too Bad I Can’t Play Them), The Lack Of Nick Around The Office Current Favorite Games: Minecraft, Super Meat Boy, Borderlands, Halo: Reach

Dan Ryckert Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: The Slide At Epic Games, Air Force Gator, Queen, Chick Fil-A, Seeing Louis C.K. Live, Jon Stewart And Stephen Colbert’s Upcoming Rallies, Danzig Buying Kitty Litter In A Danzig Shirt, Peanut Butter And Banana Sandwiches Dislikes: Rush, Comcast DVRs, Diablo Cody, Shark Vacuum Being A Stupid Infomercial Instead Of An Awesome Movie Like I Thought It’d Be, Chick Fil-A Being Closed On Sundays, Hotel Fire Alarms, Everything Trip Says And Does In Enslaved Current Favorite Games: Dead Rising 2, Halo: Reach, Enslaved: Odyssey To The West, Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley, DiRT 2, Starcraft II

Tim Turi Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Deadwood, 3DS, Eastbound & Down, Walks By The Mississippi River, Drag Me To Hell, Swearing, 8-Bit Metal Tunes, True Grit (I Love The Coen Brothers), Sleeping, Chocolate Cheerios, Implanting The Theme From Family Matters In My Coworkers’ Heads, The IT Crowd, Writing My First Cover Story Dislikes: Noisy Neighbors, 3D Glasses, Jeff Cork, Corrupted Xbox Live Accounts (I Blame Reiner), Running Out Of Milk, Dumb Swords, Losing Motivation To Work Out Current Favorite Games: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Kirby’s Epic Yarn, Sonic 4, Dead Rising 2, Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia, Valkyria Chronicles 2, Halo: Reach