GI Staff And Reader Interests, Dislikes, And Favorite Games: Issue #223

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: The Walking Dead (Though I Do Groan Every Time They Talk About Family), Ready Player One (Amazing Book That You Should Read If You Love Classic Video Games), Bon Iver, Going To Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives Restaurants When I Visit A New City, Born To Run By Christopher McDougall, The Christian Ponder Era Dislikes: The Lack Of People On Google Plus, The Fact That The NBA Players Union Doesn’t Understand That There Is No Easy Way Out Of Being One Of the Have-Nots And Without Change And Some (Reasonable) Equality Of Talent And Dollars The League Is Doomed (Losing Until You Get Lucky On The Lottery And Maybe Holding On To That Talent For A Few Years Isn’t Exactly A Valid Business Plan) Current Favorite Games: Batman: Arkham City, Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, Jetpack Joyride, Diablo III Beta (Even Though It Was Short), Pinball FX, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus Collection

Andrew Reiner Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, DC Comics' New 52 (The Universe Is Off To A Roaring Start. I'm Still Reading All 52 Books), Getting Ready To Film Overblood 2's Super Replay (I Have A Bad Feeling About This One), Tripping Icarus' Upcoming Album Back To The House Of Pain Dislikes: Seeing The "Renew Your Xbox Live Gold Membership" Notice Pop Up, All Varieties Of Meats Being Inserted Into Chocolates (Let's Keep It To Sugar, Candy Makers), Having Nightmares About The Reiner & Phil Play Beastly Episode Current Favorite Games: Batman: Arkham City, Battlefield 3, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Dark Souls, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

Matt Helgeson Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu, Party Down, A Dance With Dragons By George R. R. Martin, Stuff, Things, Activities, Christian Ponder Dislikes: Unenjoyable Things, When Sports Teams I Like Lose, Poor Quality Entertainment Properties, Inclement Weather Current Favorite Games: Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Batman: Arkham City, Enjoy Sudoku, Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure

Matthew Kato Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: The Fall Of Peyton Hillis (I'm Sure There Are Some Madden Owners Who Still Don't Know Who He Is), More & More Older Games Made Available As Digital Downloads, Chicken Pot Pies Dislikes: The Death Of Racer Dan Weldon, The Reformation Of The Stone Roses (I'm A Huge Fan, But This Seems Stupid), Gmail, That I Did Virtually Nothing With My Summer, Harley Quinn (Exhibit No. 3,453 Why Comic Books Are Dumb), Online Passes Current Favorite Games: Batman: Arkham City, Forza Motorsport 4, The Ico & The Shadow Of The Colossus Collection

Adam Biessener Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Black Tea, World Series Baseball, Actually Finding Decent Android Games (Never Mind That You Played Them All On iPhone Two Years Ago), Primal Eating, Astonishing X-Men, The Guard (Best Movie I've Seen All Year), The 2012 Nissan Sentra Special Edition Dislikes: House Maintenance, Magic's Archenemy Mode (Total Game Design Failure), Ascension Not Being On Android, Smarmy Steve Jobs Hagiographies, Minnesota Football's Dark Ages Current Favorite Games: Cut The Rope, Gears Of War 3, Disgaea 4, Payday: The Heist, The House Of The Dead: Overkill Extended Cut, Might & Magic Heroes VI 

Joe Juba Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Finally Getting Rid Of My Ancient Car, American Drink's Back To School Special, HUGE Theater, Dance Your Ph.D, Teenage Mutant Ninja Noses, Scared Bros
Dislikes: Pandarens (And I Don't Even Play WoW Anymore), Bathos, Absurd Fan Fiction, Dan Making Up Lies About My Interests, Dan In General, Waiting For Skyrim (The Closer I Get To 11/11, The More Difficult It Gets) Current Favorite Games: Batman: Arkham City, Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Rage, Uncharted 3, Infamous 2: Festival Of Blood, Upgrade Complete 2

Matt Miller Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Modern Family, The Rebirth Of The X-Men Comics, Dodging The Bullet That Was The Name Qwikster, All Those Riddler Challenges (There's So Many!), Elder Sign (Awesome Dice Game), The Conclusion Of Transformers: Prime Season 1 Dislikes: Not Having Blu-rays Of Star Wars Free Of All The Added Nonsense, DLC Codes For Content That Should Be On The Disc (I'm Looking At You, Batman), Having All My Shoes Destroyed By An Adorable Puppy Current Favorite Games: Batman: Arkham Asylum, Assassin's Creed Revelations, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Gears of War 3, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron

Matt Bertz Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Rocksteady Studio's Amazing Attention To Detail, Tom Waits – Bad As Me, Asking Siri Crazy Questions On My iPhone 4S, Youth Lagoon – The Year of Hibernation, Bored To Death, Shark Pool!, Boardwalk Empire Season Two, How Gorgeous Battlefield 3 Looks On PC Dislikes: Fighting With My PC Hardware to Get Battlefield 3 Up And Running (This Is Still The Best Argument For Consoles), The Very Real Prospect Of The Vikings Moving To Los Angeles, RIP Steve Jobs, That This DirecTV and Fox Squabble May Take Away My Access To Minnesota Wild Games, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, The League, And Sons Of Anarchy, DICE Plagiarizing Infinity Ward Instead Of Designing A Single-Player And Co-op Experience Built Around Battlefield's Strengths Current Favorite Games: Battlefield 3, Batman: Arkham City, FIFA 12, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

Jeff Cork Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Poutine, New Game +, Working On My Top Secret Project, Finally Getting My Media PC Up And Running, Hockeypulver, MODOK, MODOK, MODOK Dislikes: Not Having Enough Time To Play All These Games, My Drive Home Getting Increasingly Darker, The Return Of The Check Engine Light Current Favorite Games: Batman: Arkham City, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Battlefield 3, Dark Souls, Forza 4,

Ben Reeves Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Moneyball (I Think I Could Manage A Baseball Team Now), DC’s New 52, The New Ultimate Spider-Man, Home Brew, Riding A Rollercoaster At Night In A Theme Park Filled With Fog (Valley Scare), Bungie Jumping With Tim And Dan Dislikes: Watching Dan Freak Out Before The Jump (Actually, I Kind Of Enjoyed That), Missing Out On Soap Factory’s Halloween Haunted Basement Current Favorite Games: Batman: Arkham City, Spider-Man: Edge Of Time, Rage, Portal 2's Peer Review DLC, Battleheart, Cut The Rope, Gears of War 3

Bryan Vore Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Spotify, Surfer Blood – Tarot Classics, Feist – Metals, Animated Movie Professor Layton And The Eternal Diva Finally Coming To The U.S., Trying Game Of Thrones Cuisine From Inn At The Crossroads, That People From GI Are Finally Watching Party Down On Netflix Streaming, The Star Wars Blu-rays Dislikes: Still Hating Most Of The New Star Wars Trilogy On Recent Viewings Current Favorite Games: Batman: Arkham City, Super Mario 3D Land, Professor Layton And The Last Specter, Kirby: Mass Attack, Rage, Portal 2's Peer Review DLC

Philip Kollar Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Blizzcon, Mumford & Sons, Galerians, Giving Out My First 10 At Game Informer (What Could It Be?!), What Is The What by Dave Eggers, Dave Eggers In General Dislikes: Video Game Missions Based Around Going Through Rings (Looking At You, Batman), Making The Mistake Of Re-Upping My World Of Warcraft Account During Insane Holiday Release Season, My Insatiable MMO Addiction, Sleep, The Cursed Crusade, White Knight Chronicles II, Reviewing The Cursed Crusade And White Knight Chronicles II Current Favorite Games: World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Batman: Arkham City, Rage, Dark Souls

Jeff Marchiafava Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Having New Hires In The Office, The Surprise Of How Much I’m Enjoying Dark Souls, The Avalanche Of Great Games Finally Being Here, Some Decent Fall Weather, Almost Being Done With Yard Work Dislikes: The Long Winter Of Shoveling Ahead, Not Having Time To Finish Any Of Said Great Games, Battlefield 3’s Campaign (If I Wanted To Sit Through A Completely Scripted Military Drama, I’d Watch The Hurt Locker Again), “Augmented Reality Training Failed” Current Favorite Games: Dark Souls, Batman: Arkham City, Battlefield 3, Pinball FX 2, Rock Band 3

Dan Ryckert Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Leon On Curb Your Enthusiasm, Watching That Scene From The Breaking Bad Finale Over And Over, This Macho Man Randy Savage Print, Thin Lizzy, Waiting For The GTA V Trailer, Realizing The Battlefield Theme Sounds Like The Terminator Theme Dislikes: This Kid, Hulk Hogan's Main Event, That Jerk Joe Juba Thinking That Cheetos Are Chips, Rush, "Augmented Reality Training Failed", Harley Quinn, The Fact That Al Pacino Is In Jack & Jill Current Favorite Games: Batman: Arkham City, Battlefield 3, Saints Row: The Third, Super Mario Land 2, Shadow Of The Colossus

Tim Turi Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Reddit, 2012’s The Thing, Arrested Development’s New Content, The Kids In The Hall, Moving To A Bigger Place, Hellboy, VidRhythm, iOS5, PlayStation Vita Dislikes: The Act Of Moving, The 3DS’ Battery Life, Losing Perspective, Dirty Dishes Current Favorite Games: Galerians, Sly Cooper HD Collections, Max Payne, The Binding Of Isaac, Castlevania III, Rage

Ben Hanson Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Podcasts, White Bread, Listening To Old Lady Tunes, Blowing In My Empty Moonshine Jug, Inbreeding Dislikes: Letting Jeff Marchiafava Write My Interests Current Favorite Games: Batman: Arkham City, Rochard, Battlefield 3, Scribblenauts Remix, Perfect Dark XBLA

Kyle Hilliard Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: My New Baby And My Awesome Wife, The Walking Dead Back On TV, Comedy Bang Bang Podcast, The Moth Podcast, Catching Up On 30 Rock On Netflix Dislikes: I Haven't Been Able To Find Canada Dry Raspberry Ginger Ale Since I've Moved To Minnesota Current Favorite Games: Batman: Arkham City, Cave Story 3D, Portal 2, Ico/Shadow of the Colossus HD Collection

Jim Reilly Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Sniffing A Fresh Game Manual (If There Is One), Red Wings Hockey, Finally Meeting Bobby Kotick In Person, Grand Theft Auto V Dislikes: Moving, Someone Spilling Beer On My Hugo Boss Suit, People Knowingly Sitting In The Wrong Seat On An Airplane Current Favorite Games: Dark Souls, Jetpack Joyride