The Game Informer Staff Page: Issue #208

This month, the GI crew loves and/or hates the iPhone 4, 3DS, Red Dead Redemption, Kirby's Epic Yarn, Xbox 360 slim, music, stupid YouTube videos, and more.

Andy McNamara  Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: MMA, Twins Baseball, Watching The Timberwolves Finding New Ways To Fail, Tool, iPhone 4, Xbox Slim's Noise Output Dislikes: That All My Monitors Aren't As Crisp As My iPhone 4 Current Favorite Games: World of Warcraft, Red Dead Redemption, Angry Birds, Solitaire, Crackdown 2 Demo

Andrew Reiner Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Syfy’s Warehouse 13, BBC’s Survivors, Marvel Throwing Around The Idea Of Introducing New Characters In Short-Films Attached To Its Big Summer Releases (Bring On Black Panther!), Nintendo 3DS (I Was Blown Away By This Device At E3, And Will Be The First In Line To Get One Of My Own), Toy Story 3 (Best Movie I’ve Seen In Years) Dislikes: The Xbox 360 Slim Not Being Slim At All, Carlos Zambrano, Lou Piniella, The Current State Of The Chicago Cubs (They Can’t Even Beat The Pirates), The Cell Phone War (By The Time This Goes To Print We’ll Likely Be Talking iPhone 5 Rumors), People Who Complain About Their iPhone, Yet Refuse To Replace It Current Favorite Games: Red Dead Redemption, Crackdown 2, Ninety-Nine Nights II, Limbo, HAWX 2, Singularity, Castlevania: Harmony of Despair

Matt Helgeson Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Hulu Plus Coming To Consoles, Nina Nastasia – Outlaster, Treme, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Getting Central Air, Big Boi – Sir Lucious Leftfoot: The Son of Chico Dusty, My New Bicycle, Nintendo 3DS Dislikes: The Ongoing Misadventures Of The Minnesota Timberwolves, Roger Federer’s Cold Streak, Hurricane Weather In South Minneapolis, People Trying To Get Me To Put A Slinky In My Mouth And Drop It To The Floor, Disappointing Kinect Games Current Favorite Games: Kirby’s Epic Yarn, Red Dead Redemption, Picross 3D, Rocket Knight

Matthew Kato Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Re-Issues/Remasters Of The Charlatans’ Some Friendly & Stones’ Exile On Main Street, Reiner Admitting He Likes Playing With Dolls And Dressing Them Up In His Toy Story 3 Review, Dino Ciccarelli Getting Into The Hockey Hall Of Fame, That My Launch-Day PS2 Is Still Getting Used As A DVD Player Dislikes: When People Try To Have Full Conversations With Me When I’m Playing Racing Games, Steve Jobs, USMNT Going So Far But Not Far Enough In The World Cup Current Favorite Games: Test Drive Unlimited 2, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Portal 2, NCAA Football 11, 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa, NHL 11

Adam Biessener Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Liriano's Return To Form, Pavano's Glorious Moustache, Morneau's 1.000+ OPS, Not Being In L.A., Everyone Else Finally Understanding Bulletstorm's Awesomeness, Burgerstorm (Seriously You Guys Need To Make This A Downloadable Title After Bulletstorm Ships) Dislikes: Reiner's TweetDeck Sound (I Realize That It's Very Important To Know The Instant That Anyone Says Anything About The Cubs, But I'll Save You The Trouble: They're Terrible Except For Marmol, Colvin, And Castro, And Hendry Needs To Be Fired For The Franchise To Make Any Progress. At Least You're Not Pittsburgh, Though), The Tigers' Stubborn Refusal To Admit That The Twins Are Better Than They Are And Just Let Us Win The Division Already Current Favorite Games: Fall From Heaven II (The Civ IV Mod), Angry Birds, Jumpgate Evolution, Rift: Planes of Telara, Vindictus

Joe Juba Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: All The Awesome Sequels At E3, The Possibility Of A Team ICO HD Collection, Doodle God, Hulu Coming To My PS3, Mumford & Sons’ Sigh No More, The Amazing Mumford Dislikes: The Lack Of The Last Guardian At E3, Pretty Much Every Kinect Game I’ve Seen, That Last Season Of 24 (I Watch For Eight Seasons And This Is How I’m Rewarded?), The Summertime Beard Current Favorite Games: Dragon Age II, Portal 2, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, LittleBigPlanet 2, Crackdown 2, Dead Space 2, Infamous 2, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Limbo

Matt Miller Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Justified, Acacia by David Anthony Durham (Great New Fantasy Series For Martin Lovers), Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles (At This Point It’s A Tradition), Pandemic (What A Great Board Game!), The Upcoming XBLA Summer Of Arcade Lineup Dislikes: Being Trapped Without A Taxi On LA Streets On Riot Nights, Walking The Las Vegas Strip In Summertime, The Loudness Of E3 (Can We Get Some Decibel Control, Please?) Current Favorite Games: Limbo, Rock Band 3, Transformers: War For Cybertron, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Red Dead Redemption, Super Mario Galaxy 2, DJ Hero 2 , Halo: Reach, Journey

Matt Bertz Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Louis C.K.’s New Show, The Hilarious Cage Show At Triple Rock, The Gaslight Anthem- American Slang, Great Lakes Brewing Co. Dortmunder Gold Lager, Baroness- Blue Record Dislikes: The USMNT Losing To A Beatable Ghana Team, Vuvuzelas, iPhone iOS4 Deleting My Contacts, That Hollywood Still Lets M. Night Shyamalan Make Movies, Non-Soccer Fans Bitching About The World Cup (Don’t Watch. There Are 5,000 Other Channels) Current Favorite Games: NCAA Football 11, Red Dead Redemption, NHL 11, Alan Wake, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, FIFA 2010 World Cup

Jeff Cork Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: This Video (With The World Cup Button Activated), Watching To See If Anyone Cares About Move Or Kinect This Holiday Season, Homemade Bagels, Playing Toy Story 3 With My Kid, Video Games Dislikes: Dan Ryckert, LEGO’s Limited Edition Minifigs (Why Are The Zombies Impossible To Find?!), Sequels That Subtract Features From The Original Game, Bees, Getting Balls Thrown At Me Over Again After My Kid Wants To Play Buzz Lightyear “Like In That Game” Current Favorite Games: LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, Red Dead Redemption, Alan Wake, Dead Rising 2, Puzzle Quest 2

Nick Ahrens Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: The Phantom Camera (1000FPS In HD), Cardboard Warfare, AT-AT Day Afternoon, Traxxas R/C Cars, The Airhogs Helicopter That Jeff C And I Are Addicted To, LEGO Minifigs, Louie On FX Dislikes: The Large Number Of Glaring Errors In iOS4, 3 Dropped Calls In 10 Min With Full Bars (Thanks, AT&T), My Current Lack Of Cookie Eating, Clamshell Packaging Current Favorite Games: Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Portal 2, Red Dead Redemption, Puzzle Fighter HD, Twisted Metal

Ben Reeves Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Breaking Bad (I Can’t Watch Malcolm In The Middle The Same Way Anymore), Jim Steranko’s Classic Work On Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., Liquid Mountaineering, Getting To Play Dead Space 2 and MvC 3 at E3 Dislikes: Rain Water (Mostly Just When It’s In My House And Flooding My Car), Losing A Whole Weekend To Sleep After E3, Having To Wait Until 2011 For Portal 2, How Cold The Office Gets During the Summer (I Don’t Think I Have To Store My Lunch In The Fridge Anymore) Current Favorite Games: Red Dead Redemption, Infamous 2, Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, Borderlands, Dragon Age: Origins, Portal 2, Dead Space 2, Super Mario Galaxy 2

Bryan Vore Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Hulu On Consoles And iPhone, Finally Multitasking Music In The Background While I’m Doing Other Crap on iPhone, Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour Is Almost At Hand, When Microsoft Puts Five XBLA Games On Sale At A Time For Several Weeks In A Row, 3DS Dislikes: The Cancellation Of Party Down, The Fact That Standard Free Hulu Is Not An Option On Consoles And iPhone, When Games (Good Or Bad) Get Released In Secret Like Singularity And Ninety-Nine Nights II Current Favorite Games: Red Dead Redemption, Rock Band 3, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Breath Of Death VII: The Beginning, Portal 2, Picross 3D, Bulletstorm

Meagan Van Burkleo Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Sword Forging, Moon Fox, James Lipton, Ashley Hay’s Nerd Art, Eminem’s New Album, Pinkberry (Again), Roller Derby, Bloody Knuckles, Giant Anteaters, Christopher Nolan’s Inception, San Diego Comic Con, DC Direct’s Uni-Formz Line Dislikes: Trading A $90 Birthday Dress For A White Poncho, That F***Ing Bear, The Destructive Urges I Get While Driving Thanks To Split/Second, Preparing For San Diego Comic Con, Running  Out Of 24 Episodes To Watch, DC’s Wonder Woman Reboot, Living In The Shadow Of Pepper Jack Cheese, Pants, The Tower Of Terror, Spandex Costumes Requiring Daily 5:30 AM Workouts, The Direction DC’s Ame-Comi Line Is Going Current Favorite Games: Split/Second, Alan Wake, Lara Croft and the Guardian of the Light, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Limbo, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Portal 2, Rage, Hunted: The Demon’s Forge, Gears of War 3

Annette Gonzalez Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Revisiting Chappelle’s Show On Netflix, Wrapping Up Physical Therapy (Shoulder), Nintendo 3DS, iPhone OS4 Update, Finally Having A Furnished Apartment, Eminem’s Recovery Album Dislikes: Fitness Personality Tony Horton, Cab Drivers Who Say They Don’t Accept Credit When The Card Machine On The Dash Says Otherwise, Pants Current Favorite Games: Red Dead Redemption, Red Dead Redemption, Red Dead Redemption

Philip Kollar Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Steel Train – Steel Train, Cheap/High Quality Live CDs From A Bunch Of Artists I Dig Via ThinkIndie, Finally Starting Battlestar Galactica After Years Of Urging From Friends, Actually Sleeping (Just A Little Bit Since E3), Toy Story 3 (But Why Does Every Theater I See It In Get So Dusty By The End?), Eagerly Awaiting StarCraft 2 So Much (It’s Almost Here OMG!) That I’m Reading A StarCraft 2 Novel Dislikes: The Quality Of The StarCraft 2 Novel I’m Reading, This Summer’s Batch Of Disappointing Open-World Games That Could’ve Been Amazing (APB And Crackdown 2), Watching People Flip Out Over A New Apple Device Because It Adds Features That Should’ve Been In The Original Years Ago (I’m Not Anti-Apple Or Anything, But Chill, People), Sinuses, Student Loans
Current Favorite Games: World of Warcraft, Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels Of The Starry Skies, Toy Story 3, Doom XBLA, Forza Motorsport 3

Jeff Marchiafava Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Australian Football (Surely They Were Drunk When They Made This Game), The House Of The Devil (A Pitch Perfect Emulation Of A Horror Movie From The ‘80s), Three Days’ Worth Of Leftovers From Bucca Di Beppo, Days When The Office Is Inexplicably Cold Dislikes: Days When the Office Is Inexplicably Hot, Stupid Americans Complaining About The Vuvuzelas During The World Cup (Even Though I Did Too At First) Current Favorite Games: Red Dead Redemption, Persona 3 Portable, Happy Wheels

Dan Ryckert Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Twisted Metal Coming Back, Pretty Much Anything That Happens In Red Dead Redemption, Rediscovering Crunch Berries, People Thinking That We Don't Know What Kid Icarus Is, Louis C.K. finally getting a show that fits with his act, Teaching Myself How To Do This Correctly, Every Fatality I Saw In The New Mortal Kombat Dislikes: Rush, Tyra Banks, Crank-Turning Puzzles, Wedding Cheetah, Tool, Alan Wake’s Tendency To Get Tired After Running 20 Feet, Creepy Plates Current Favorite Games: Red Dead Redemption, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Joe Danger, 3D Dot Game Heroes, Picross 3D, Professor Layton And The Diabolical Box

Tim Turi Profile E-mail Editor

Interests: Cutting Fruit In Metal Gear Solid: Rising, Avacados, 3DS, Archer, Brita Water Filters, Entering Valhalla, P90, Buckethead, 8-Bit Music, Failbook Dislikes: That’s What She Said Jokes, People Who Jog In Jeans, Minneapolis Tap Water, Fake Abbreviations Like “Totes” Or “Perhps,” Bros, Pouring Cereal Then Running Out Of Milk, Choppy LastFM Songs Current Favorite Games: Kirby’s Epic Yarn, Red Dead Redemption, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Joe Danger, Donkey Kong Country, Pokémon FireRed Version, Chrono Trigger