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GI Staff And Reader Interests, Dislikes, And Favorite Games: Issue #218
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: A Dance With Dragons, Cycling, E3, GI Digital, Howitzers Dislikes: How Much The Twins Suck, E3 Hotel Crap, The Fact That E3 Has Made My Life So Insane I Have Zero Time To Play Games (I Want To Punch A Monkey – No Monkeys Were Harmed In The Writing Of This Post) Current Favorite Games: Battleheart, Solitaire, Dead Space 2, L.A. Noire
Andrew Reiner
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Interests: Attending E3 To Check Out Nintendo's New Console & Sony's New Handheld, Realizing That Every Room In My House Is Cluttered With Video Games, L.A. Noire's Facial Animations (I Hope More Developers Invest In This Technology) Dislikes: Scheduling E3 Coverage (I'm Sure This Is How I Will Die), The 3DS's Battery Life (Mine Dies Within Three Hours), Reading Books On Tablets (It's Not For Me. I Prefer Turning Physical Pages) Current Favorite Games: L.A. Noire, Infamous 2, Dirt 3, Mortal Kombat, Portal 2, Catherine
Matt Helgeson
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Interests: Game of Thrones, NBA Playoffs, Death Grips - Exmilitary, Aretha Franklin, Infinite Jest By David Foster Wallace, Biking To Work Dislikes: The Weather, The Rigged NBA Draft Lottery (Can’t The T-Wolves Ever Get A Break?), The Passing Of Randy “Macho Man” Savage (R.I.P.) Current Favorite Games: L.A. Noire, Pinball FX 2, Bulletstorm, Zenonia 2
Matthew Kato
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Interests: Visual Acoustics: The Modernism Of Julius Shulman, Arctic Monkey’s “Dance Little Liar” (New Album Out Soon, Too), Brave Irene, The Thought That A New Football Stadium Might Also Bring An MLS Team To Minnesota Dislikes: The Feeling That The Post-Draft Christian Ponder Hype Is Too Good To Be True, The Feeling That I Might Actually Be Able To Reconcile Never Watching Football Again, Compost Bags Whose Bottoms Rip Open When You Lift Them, That I’m Not Good At Dirt 3’s Gymkhana Current Favorite Games: L.A. Noire, Portal 2, Dirt 3, Madden NFL 12, NHL 12, NCAA Football 12
Adam Biessener
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Interests: Rereading Ender's Game (Still Holds Up, And Not Too Much Of Card's Crazy Comes Through), Martina Topley-Bird, Archer, The X-Files, Baseball (Specifically The Documentary By Ken Burns, But Also The Sport) Dislikes: Pretty Much Everything About The Twins' Season So Far Except Kubel And Span, Game Crashes, Ridiculous Pre-Release DRM (You Think You Have It Bad? You Should See The Hoops We Have To Jump Through Sometimes) Current Favorite Games: The Witcher 2: Assassins Of Kings, Civilization V, Terraria, Spectromancer: Truth and Beauty, Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup
Joe Juba
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Interests: Marcel The Shell, People Who Watch Game Of Thrones But Haven't Read The Books (You're In For Some Surprises!), Watching People Bomb At Open Mic Night, Convincing Ben To Get On Stage At Open Mic Night, Killing Dan Dislikes: Planking (If You Are Into This, You Are An Irredeemable Moron), Most Of The Casting For The Hunger Games, Plantains (Just Give Up. Bananas Won The War), Guillotine Current Favorite Games: L.A. Noire, Portal 2, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Outland
Matt Miller
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Interests: Foundling, The Adventures of TinTin, The Slow Build-Up Towards The Avengers Film, Watching New Puppies Grow Up Dislikes: Minnesota Tornadoes, Batman Inc., Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark (Who Thought This Was A Good Idea?) Current Favorite Games: The Witcher 2: Assassins Of Kings, Portal 2, L.A. Noire, World Of Warcraft
Matt Bertz
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Interests: Game Of Thrones, Treme Season 2, The Year of Punk (Dear Landlord, Banner Pilot, Off!, Off With Their Heads, The Marked Men, Subhumans, And Riverboat Gamblers Shows All In One Summer!), Black Swan, Black Death, Psycho Suzi’s Epic New Patio, Red Fang Dislikes: The Lack Of A Pre-Game Lobby In Brink, The King’s Speech Winning Best Picture (Decent Flick And Great Acting, But Hardly An Oscar Worthy Plot), R.I.P. Derek Boogaard, People Who Use Too Many Exclamation Points Current Favorite Games: L.A. Noire, Portal 2, Outland, NBA 2K11
Jeff Cork
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Interests: Looking Around For A New House, Listening To My Oldest Kid Tell Me Weird Stories, Long Walks On The Beach With Tim Turi, Ignoring The “Check Engine” Light That’s Been On For A Month Dislikes: Getting Our Old House Ready To Put On The Market (How Did We Acquire So Much Stuff?!), Macho Man Randy Savage’s Untimely Death, Getting My Eyes Scratched Out By A Crow Current Favorite Games: Pinball FX 2, L.A. Noire, Dead Rising 2: Off the Record
Ben Reeves
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Interests: Walking Dead Marathons And Jell-O Brains, Watching A Million Bats Darken Austin’s Sky, Judging High School Science Fairs, Powerglove’s Recent Minneapolis Concert, Thanksgiving in April, My New Thor Hammer, Thor Comics, The Thor Movie Dislikes: The Thor Game Current Favorite Games: Outland, Portal 2, Borderlands: Claptrap's New Robot Revolution, Mortal Kombat
Bryan Vore
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Interests: Game Of Thrones (TV Show), A Clash Of Kings (Book), Twin Peaks, Getting Married, Playing Around With The 3DS’s Streetpass Features Dislikes: A Song Of Ice And Fire Spoilers, Missing E3, Waiting For Good 3DS Games That Aren’t Remakes Current Favorite Games: L.A. Noire, Portal 2, Mortal Kombat, Zenonia (iPhone), Pilotwings Resort
Annette Gonzalez
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Interests: The End Of Winter, Taking Snazzy Photos With My New iPhone 4, My New Moogle Plushie, Glee, Working Out Daily In An Attempt To Get Into The Best Shape Of My Life, 100 Calorie Snack Packs Dislikes: When Fabulous Miami Vacations End Current Favorite Games: Portal 2, Outland, L.A. Noire, Dance Central
Philip Kollar
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Interests: Non-Stop Trips For Work, Actually Being Home For A Couple Of Weeks, Writing A Truly Absurd Amount For The Next Issue Of The Magazine, Sherlock, Simple Math By Manchester Orchestra, Everyone Loves You When You're Dead By Neil Strauss, Thor Dislikes: Everything Else Neil Strauss Has Ever Written, Getting Sick While On One Of My Insanely Busy Work Trips, Dodging Game Of Thrones Spoilers As Best I Can, That Crappy PSN Hacking Situation Current Favorite Games: L.A. Noire, Words With Friends, Final Fantasy III On iPad, Catherine, Shadows Of The Damned
Jeff Marchiafava
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Interests: Planting Raspberry Bushes And Having Them Not Immediately Die, Rockstar Releasing Another Expectation-Defying Hit, Portal 2’s Brain-Breaking Co-op (That’s What I Wanted From Single Player, Valve), Having A Second New Pinball FX 2 Table To Play This Summer, Giant Bowls Of Soup At Pho Tau Bay Dislikes: How It Always Waits Until The Weekend To Rain (It Wouldn’t Be Minnesota If We Couldn’t Complain About The Weather), The Craters Peppering The Streets Of Minneapolis, Pre-E3 Jitters (It’s About Time To Start Worrying About The Things I’m Forgetting), Lawn Mowing Current Favorite Games: L.A. Noire, Portal 2, Pinball FX 2, Dead Rising 2
Dan Ryckert
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Interests: This Guy, Shoving Myself In L.A. Noire, Winning Bets Against My Sister, HBO's Talking Funny Special, Witnessing Awesome Bar Fights, QuikTrip Taquitos, Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings Dislikes: Rush, My Sister's Laptop Case, Adrien Brody, The Death Of Randy Savage, Owl City, People That Don't Understand Satire, StreetPass Not Working Half The Time On My 3DS Current Favorite Games: L.A. Noire, Ocarina Of Time 3D, Mortal Kombat, Outland
Tim Turi
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Interests: Japan, Ultimate Stuffed Crust Pizza, Twin Peaks, Ramen, Mame Shiba Inus, Teen Wolf, T-Shirt Weather, E3 2011, Playing Catch, Poker, Ananamanaguchi, The Writers Of Portal 2, Dreamcatcher, Japanese Hospitality, Bridesmaids, Corgi Flop Dislikes: A Day Of Straight Rain In Japan, That Thor Was A Little Disappointing, Scream 4, Too Little Time For Games, Gas Prices Still, Missing High Fives, Chicken Liver, Leaving Japan, Giving Up On Dragon Age 2 Because I Don’t Dig It Current Favorite Games: The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks; Final Fantasy X, Game Dev Story, Chaos Rings, Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
Ben Hanson
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Interests: Baseball, Biking, Tennis, Grilling, Pretending I'm A Jock Dislikes: Being Sore From Baseball, Biking, Tennis... And Grilling? Oh, And Running, Which Is For Threatened Cavemen, Whoever Invented The Concept Of A 5K Is A Wild Masochist Current Favorite Games: Minecraft, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, Super Mario Galaxy, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
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