Having a nickname and online identity that is so synonymous with a notorious lawyer (no names) is interesting when you delve into the world of gaming. Especially when it comes to politics. Of course, with a name like this, you can poke a little fun with yourself and others. But a name is just a name, isn't it? It doesn't tell you anything about a person. Ok, maybe just a little, but that's all perceived. Before I go off-topic, let's turn around and see what makes this Jack click.

Hey Everyone, Im gonna join the band wagon and do my bio as well. So after harassment from some of the forumites and one new writer I kinda did this bio, O by the way the 18th is/was my birthday so now im 20 years old.

Hallo everyone, I guess it's about time I typed up a bio for myself. I started as a PC Gamer with a little game called Jumpman for some old x86 PC my dad had around the house when I was four. From there, I moved on to DigDug, then Bubble Bobble and the rest is history. Now I own a PC, a PS2, a DS, Dreamcast (yes, it still lives!), an NES and soon, a Wii.

Ladies and Gents, this is me.

I am, as the title of this post would suggest, Dominic White. What the title doesn't suggest, though, are many other interesting faucets of my life, such as my age (which you will soon know), weight (which you will never know), and height (which I myself don't know)...

So this is pretty much me:

I am a 20 year old gamer from the merry old isle of Ireland (let me just clear this up: No, we do not have Leprechauns and we no longer sell lucky charms, nor is everything green over here. Though we do have guinness) I have been a gamer all my life and I don't ever plan on dropping my habit of playing games. I love them too much. Some say I buy too many games, I think I don't buy enough of them but each to there own. My habit does not harm everyone. But like my daddy always says "you could be out doing drugs but instead you sit of your butt playing videogames". I do plan on growing up someday and getting a real job but that won't be anytime soon hopfully and even then my games will come with me.

Email: skiptomyloutoday@hotmail.com
AIM: andrerapshottest
MSN: proofplayer@hotmail.com
Gamertag: proofplayer

All Time Favorite Game:
I cant really choose one game which I can whole heartedly call my “favorite” game ever. But I do have lots of games which combine to make me “favorite games ever”. I'm partial to the Def Jam series and the Metal Gear Solid games (most notably Metal Gear Solid 3 : Snake Eater). I also like the Sims collection of games (well I do own every one of them) and I pick up the yearly installments of Smackdown , Madden and NBA Live. I also love retro games... too many to list other than sonic Mario ect ect ect. But when it comes down to it and if I had to pick one it would most likely be Metal Gear Solid 3.... for bringing out so many emotions in me that I never knew a video game could.

First Gaming Memory:
Sitting on a white school style bench playing streets of rage 1 with my brother. Wow that is a long time ago...this was a long time before I ever had a choice in what games I got but I never felt like I wasn't getting the best games. Hell my parents bought me resident evil when I was 11. Good times.Actually thats my first clear memory...I have much hazier ones about playing batman and the Simpson and the turtles on my commodore 64.

Favorite Genre:
I'm not so much a fan of a certain genre more than if a game is good I will play it. I would not go “ oh mercury looks good but I cant get that because I don't like the puzzle genre” It stupid doing that. But if it really came down to it I'd say I play fps's mostly

Pet Peeve:
Don't get me started ... I have so many pet peeves. My biggest one by a long long way is “L33t SpK” or “TxT TkiNg”. Look my problem with this is it most likely takes you the same amount of time to type the shortened version than it does to write the full word. You are not saving time yet you leave me there for 10 mins trying to decode your bloody message. It seems to be getting more common each and every day, and I hate it.
I also hate blatant fanboys, I am a fanboy of the xbox but I keep it hidden I don't feel the need to tell the world how I feel the xbox can never be defeated. I am not so blind that I cant say wow....that ps3 game looks good.

Reason for Writing for GamerAndy.com
There is no story behind this I begged Andy to let me work for the site....well maybe not begged. But I asked him to read my review and he assumed I wanted to write for the site even though I was hoping he would at least post my review, I never even thought he would ask me to join the site. But i'm very happy to work for the site and i'm thankful he asked me to work here. Props to sherveen , edie and andy for there help on the site.

On an afternoon back when I was in 5th grade, my father took me to a video game shop down the street from our house, named Funcoland. I really had no idea why we were there. I wasn't that much into video games. I enjoyed playing games like "Mutant League Football" and "Sonic the Hedgehog" on Sega Genesis with my older brother. I soon realized that he bought me a SNES [Super Nintendo Entertainment System]. I didn't know it at the time, but I'd be spending a large amount of my life gaping at a flashing television screen filled with pixels and polygons with an uncomfortable controller in my hands, and I didn't know that the SNES would make me into the person who I am today.

Email: Sharon@GamerAndy.com
Yahoo or AIM: sharonoagain
Websites: Prosemonkey

Hello, my name is Sharon O’Neill (aka SharonO) and I’m a girl gamer. This may not be anything special since almost half of all gamers now are female but the thing with me is I’m probably ‘old enough to be yer mom’. I have two teenagers (a boy, 15, and a girl, 13) and let me tell you, the excess hormones in this house are almost overpowering.

I’m a grad student (again) at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. I’m about to finish up my Instructional Technology licensure add-on to my Masters of Library Science. I’m a teacher/librarian/media specialist at a public elementary school but I would eventually like to teach at a University by the time my kids are old enough to be going there (can you say family discount?). Maybe then I'll think about my Doctorate ... right after I get my head examined.

Since I’m a single mom, I’ve done everything I can to keep myself in their world, from working in their school to introducing them to my music to letting them play my video games … well, some of them anyway. I’m really in the second phase of my life, post-divorce, wherein I live my life by my rules ...  sort of a midlife crisis without the crisis part. This means winding the clock back to my punk/artist/college student days, back before I got married, and maybe I can do it right this time.

One big difference is now I have my kids along for the ride with me. The other difference is now I work full time and am up to my eyeballs with responsibilities so I really have to plan how I budget my time. This leads to many late nights trying to squeeze games in between homework and trying to have a life. Thank God for IM and a very understanding, supportive boyfriend!

All Time Favorite Game
Hard to choose but I think it’ll have to be Galaga … I don’t know how much money I spent on that thing but I’m sure it was close to enough to buy the freakin’ thing. Thank God for Glory Zone on the PC.

First Gaming Memory
I first ran into arcade games at Pickering Wharf in Salem, Massachusetts, when I had just turned 14. It was the ‘in’ place to go play mini-golf during the summer and the arcade, which used to only harbor dusty skeeball games and those crazy fortune telling games, suddenly was alive and full of boys. Once I dragged my friends in, they stayed for the boys and I spent my allowance. During the winter, I had to settle on the new arcade at the local mall. For home play, nothing beat playing Pong and Asteroids over at my friend Debbie’s house after school in high school. My mom (a single mom herself) couldn’t afford a console so I had to get my game on whenever I went to visit friends. I did a LOT of visiting.

Pet Peeve
Ooh, I have a lot, but most of them come down to gender stereotyping, especially by the media and in games.

Favorite Genre
I'm not really choosy ... but I DO get sucked into games that are unique, artistic (stylized cell shading, campy 8 bit, I love the art of gaming), and immersive. 


Reason for Writing for GamerAndy.com
Because I’m a writer that loves video games. Because I think I can offer a different viewpoint on video games that you usually find on gaming sites. Most of all, though, because I believe in Andy, Hawkes  and the whole crew here.

Hey all, here's me...

My name is Sherveen Mashayekhi, and I'm a 7 and a half year old [since people really couldn't get I was joking about being 7, I've decided to make an edit. I'm 15 years old, folks!] male genius from New Jersey. I go to a school for the highly gifted toddlers of the world [normal high school] and am an avid gamer. I started out with my sister handing me the controller of a NES and from there on out, I've been through a SNES, Playstation, Nintendo 64, Xbox, and Xbox 360, as well as various PC-moments throughout.

I have quite a large gaming collection that shouts out that I'm a spoiled 7-year-old. I've had around 20 games for the SNES, 30 for the Playstation, 15 for the N64, about 62 for the Xbox, and have hit 9 for the 360 so far. I also have an odd collection of around 20+ PC games.

Anyway, now that that's over with, let me state something. I'm a freaking Microsoft fan. Not fan*boy*, but fan. I love the Xbox and hate the PS2, and I'm sure I'll feel the same way about this generation. I'm not a nagging, uninformed fanboy fighting for the wrong side of the table. I'm a gamer who decided which company his loyalty went to, and Microsoft is the best choice in my perspective.

Behind it all, I'm just a gamer.

So, I'm going to go the whole GA.com-standarized-bio route, with all the specific things we like to list...

All time favorite game:

Back before TES4: Oblivion, my favorite games consisted of Knights of the Old Republic, Halo and Halo 2 (Suck it Halo-haters. You just bash because you think that's the cool thing to do!), World of Warcraft before I stopped that addiction... and way beyond that all the SNES Mario games. But now, Oblivion ranks above all. It's open-endedness and great gameplay put this game, a great game, at the top of my all-time list.

First gaming memory:

It involved my sister and a NES and two controllers... that's all I know.

Favorite genre:

I really can't choose between RPG and FPS. I love them both equally. They both give me different types of satisfaction and are both very flexible genres. So honestly, I can't decide.

Pet peeve:

Halo-haters. They do it because it's a trend among people who want to be "cool" on the intraweb. Well let me tell ya something, they can suck it.

But besides that, it's a sneaky game developer. It's a developer that doesn't get involved in the community, advertises and gains trust falsely, and doesn't really care what gamers think. It's the game developer that developes the first piece of garbage they can think of and spews out a decent game once in a million tries. It's the lazy game developer.

Reason for writing for GamerAndy.com:

Before I got accepted here at GA.com, I had a 3-man staff and podcast ready to go into work for Xbot360.com, my own project. Before that, I was going to go for PweeseBwessXbox.com, a forum for gamers to discuss their Xbox thoughts, and even before that, I've been very involved in several gaming forums in various locations. I am a gamer who has many opinions and many suggestions, and I need somewhere to turn so I can say what I think when I want to say it. I need somewhere to get things off my chest and to curse out a developer when they do me wrong.

Thanks Andy, for the oppurtune and the job!

Game on!

Contact:
Email: sherveen@gamerandy.com
MSN: sherveenmashayekhi@msn.com
AIM: Xbot360com
XBL GamerTag: Sherveen

George Ettinger - George@GamerAndy.com

In brief, I was co-founder of the Flowers For Jack project, the experiment to see if pretty things and properly-written letters would make Jack Thompson angry.  Apparently, they do.

I'm a scruffy, mediocre college student from Grand Blanc, Michigan, with an unhealthy obsession with America's anti-youth fear and bias. My constantly-shifting studies are hopping around writing, film editing, and currently electrical wiring. I'm a born-again health freak and am fighting to counteract the effects of my flash-in-the-pan FFJ popularity keeping me computer-bound for a week. Damn you, publicity, damn you.

Though its toned down since my Film Student days, I'm still a movie nut. I won't attempt to list examples here, but my dvd shelf is probably near its weight limit.

Despite the accusedly pompous nature of how I write and what I write about, I'm a gamer, plain and simple, through-and-through. Thought not a fanboy to any particular console, my PS2 gets a lot more attention than anything else.

All-time Favorite Games:
A) I am a slave to all things Metal Gear. I keep buying each volume, each reiteration, I wrote a horribly lengthy series plot guide for gameFAQs, and my first (but hopefully not last) tattoo speaks volumes for my MGS addiction. MGS, I feel, is the future of captivating interactive cinema, and the story it tells can affect you on far too many levels.

B) I will buy whatever Free Radical Design puts out there. Not just for the quality, but because they need the sales if they ever want to reach mainstream :( Timesplitters 3 is multi AND single-player God (sadly not so on PS2 online, though) and Second Sight is an absolutely brilliant, inspired, and underrated. Best twist ever.

C) Xenogears owned ages 12-16 of my life. I still have a large place for it in my heart.

D) I can't help but love the Resident Evil series.

E) Sonic 3 & Knuckles, the ultimate Sonic game.  Lock-on Sonic and Knuckles to Sonic 3 to form this grammatically-bizarre ubergame.  I was a Sonic fanboy growing up, and am now a certified Sonic Team Hater. Maybe next-gen will change my opinion...

POST-E3 CORRECTION: Next-Gen Sonic has in fact reinforced my opinion.  Sonic is dead.  Utterly, miserably, fond-childhood-memories-crushingly dead.

F) Skies of Arcadia. Play it.

G) I never really cared about GTA, although Vice City was kinda fun... but San Andreas is one of the most amazing games I have ever played. I can't deny this.

First Gaming Memory:
Age 5, playing Sonic the Hedgehog at the house of some kid I can't remember. I had my share of NES experiences and all that, but playing Sonic 1 then and there, and getting my ass kicked by the special stage, made me want a console of my own. I grew up a Genesis man, through and through.

Favorite Genre:
I have no idea. I'm thinking about everything I've played just recently and third-person action/platforming kinda stands out. RE4, Prince of Persia, GTA:SA, Second Sight, Beyond Good & Evil, Wind Waker, etc. I don't know if that's a genre, but it fits.

Pet Peeve:
Irrational gamers, from threat-writing psychos to closed-minded fanboys. Fanboys, go to hell. All consoles have their benefits and flaws, and just because I gripe (often) about the 360 doesn't mean I'm a Sony fanboy. I want a Gamecube badly (here's hoping for next paycheck) and I really wouldn't mind an Xbox. But you two-dimensional, anti-everything-else tards are what's wrong with all creative industries.

Movies and games alike, I can't stand people who take polar opinions on ANYTHING. Life and opinion are all grey areas. Use your damn brain and make real decisions. Stupidity is not a shortcut, its still just stupidity.

Reason for Writing for GamerAndy.com
I rekindled my love of writing, and moreover gamer-oriented writing, thanks to the FFJ project, and Andy was there to back me up through it. He was kind enough to invite me here and I was smart enough to accept. I never took writing seriously until I realized it was words, not just actions, that were helping push FFJ along. Now I hope to see what kind of audience I'm really speaking to.

There. That's more than you ever wanted to know. I'm pretty new to GA but I'm enjoying it here. I hope to get past the overly-serious stages of getting my column on its feet and find a place for all the humor that I feel is inherent to gaming culture.

Pixelantes, unite.

Hey everyone! Zak again... got My bio up so take a look if ya want.

Kool Kaz
The Man with the Plan

my serious look... XD XD XD

Email: zak@gamerandy.com
Aim: Koolkaz85
MSN: Koolkaz666@hotmail.com
Skype: koolkaz
Blogsite: http://www.myspace.com/zmaynard
DA account: http://koolkaz.deviantart.com/

Yo!! The name is Zak, Zak Maynard. I live in the St Louis Area, over in Illinois in a town called Swansea. Small place, but I love it... Grown up here all my life, and I rarely go far from where I'm at. I'm 20 years old, I work for a living, and I live at my parents place. I'm a Porter at a local Supermarket familiar in St Louis called Schnucks. Porter you ask? I'm a janitor, I clean sh*t, gotta problem? Anyways Ive been there since 2001 and its all Union. I need to get into college and get going, but I'm probably moving in with a friend in the next couple months so it might be out of the question.

All Time Favorite Game: Top Gear for the SNES.
This game got me into racing, and into gaming seriously. That and got me into Electronica music as well. Classic 2-player racing with sweet cars and turbos out the Wassu! The game is fairly long too. I remember my Brother and I playing this game holy like.

First Gaming Memory: When I was 2 years old.. I remember my Father bringing home the NES for Christmas of 1987 and my Brother and I loved it. We played it all night while my father stood by and watched.

Favorite Genre: Racing... straight up Racing. Ever since Top Gear to now PGR3. Ive seen many games go by and most of them I collect are racing. (Am I the only guy that has Auto Modellista for Xbox? I like that game :D) I also like RPG, Fighting, Action, Strategy, and RTS. I'm also a PC user, so I'm pro on Windows... but I tend to mess around with Linux as well.

Pet Peeve: Fanboys

......GOD DAMN FANBOYS. **sorry** Sure you might like your system, and not play others... but your missing out on lots of other games! You say retarded and sometimes childish remarks about the other game systems and love the one system you like, and also give compliments about it. You know what FANBOYS! Stay the hell outta my conversations, forums, blogs, whatever! Game Systems are not to be compared... they are for entertainment! They're to be played! Not wasting time on who's better. So as a word of advice from an Aged Gamer, Play everything you can get your hands on! Just play them all and enjoy them for what they are!!

Reason for Writing for GamerAndy.com: Andy just came up to me and asked if I wanted to join. I thought about it for a moment, and I went with it. I'm having fun writing about games now and hopefully, I can meet more people and be friends with them. I also hope I can give out as much useful info I can give.

before I go all I have to say is this...

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Email: Matt@GamerAndy.com
AIM: xvar2k7
skype: mbratton

My name is Matt Bratton, I'm 16 and live in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. I was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and now attend school at Ocean Springs High School as a junior. After high school, I hope to attend GA Tech for a BS in CS or BS in EE. My home is just a few miles from the water and was flooded by Katrina, but our house was not insured against flood damage. I've been playing games for a long, long time (more than some college students) and I believe they helped me get through Katrina's aftermath by helping me escape reality just a little bit.

All Time Favorite Game: Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
Even though I am a 'young' gamer, my brother (now about Andy's age) raised me up well on the old stuff like Duke Nukem, Scorched Earth, Contra, Metroid, Super Marios (all of them), Mario Kart, Metal Gear, Chrono Trigger, etc. That being said, my favorite game of all time is still WC3. Before WC3, my favorite was Starcraft. I guess I'm just a Blizzard kind of guy, but, to me, WC3 is the epitome of what an RTS should be. I used to spend hours and hours of time just playing Wintermaul and Cube Defense with friends on Battle.net.

First Gaming Memory:
Old school Nintendo with my brother - Metroid, Duck Hunt, Zelda, Dragon Quest - those were the days.

Favorite Genre:
Just as with Andy, mine used to be RTS, now it's FPS - again, like Andy, this was brought about mostly because I'm a Mac user (there's just no substitute when it comes to not sucking), but also because Goldeneye and Perfect Dark on the N64 hooked me. I've learned to love the FPS genre.

Pet Peeves:
I have a LOT of pet peeves, but I'll go through them shortly:

Like Andy, I hate proprietary formats too. Sony pisses me off with that stuff, but so do other people.

Gimmicks - Nintendo usually gets me with these - like Donkey Konga bongos, Mario Party mic, the N64 transfer pak - stuff that's only used for a few games. It's a complete rip off and ticks me off immensely.

EA - I HATE EA with a passion. Not their games, but their company. As a budding game developer, their poor treatment of employees ticks me off. As a gamer, their buying up of good franchises and turning them into crap infuriates me (ex: 007 games).

Windows - I hate how EVERYTHING is made for Windows only, just about. The Mac's time is coming soon (though that's for a different blog) and more developers need to go the Blizzard way and develop cross-platform. I guess they're all just lazy and want to learn DirectX only.

Reason for Writing for GamerAndy.com:
I met Adam through the now shutdown satire site MajorYnos.com, and we had similar views on most of the stories, so I contacted him about writing. It also helped that I've been taking journalism classes and have been writing for a number of years now. I am also a very outspoken debater and love to get my opinion out.

GAME ON!

-Matt

Hello everybody, I'm Ethan Donnelly and I'm the guy around here who handles the rumors. I'm an 19 year old gamer who is in it for the long run. I live in brooklyn New York and have been gaming since the SNES. I currently own all 3 current gen systems and a 360. I'm also a big movie buff. So if you ever want to talk about games or movies I'm your man. So just drop me a line.

You can hit me up at;
AIM - eplayerd
MSN - eplayerd
Skype - eplayerd
Any Forum - eplayerd
Noticing a pattern?
Email - Ethan@gamerandy.com

All Time Favorite Game:
Now thats a hard one, so I'll just list a bunch.

Mario, doesn't matter which one they all are awesome. Yeah I love that fat plumber, I spent so many hours of my life.

Zelda, again doesn't matter, This series is arguably the best ever. There is a reason why GS rates these games so high

MGS also doesn't matter, If you haven't played any of them you need to right now

Halo 2, Geometry wars, Shadow of the colossus, Katamri Damacy, Gradius, Pong, Half-Life 2.

Favorite Genre:

Action. Yeah sound generic, but I love games like Zelda, Halo, and MGS.

First Gaming Memory:

Arcade: Pac Man

Console: the day my dad took me to get an SNES at the Wiz

Pet Peeve

Automated customer service. yeah Thats right I'm looking at you Sony

Reason for Writing for GamerAndy.com

I'm the guy who does the rumors, some of those little rumors joystiq/kotaku used to get came from me. I was just a freelance rumor finder, that is until I found a man named Andy (whish coincedently isn't). So now I scour the web finding all the info you want that you can't find on your own.

Email: Andy@GamerAndy.com
AIM: andythegamer1984
MSN: blueriotman@gmail.com
skype: gamerandy
LiveJournal: callme_andy

My name is Adam Levine (Though my pen name is Andrew Johanson, or "Andy"), I'm 20 years old and I'm a student at Ex'pression College for Digital Arts in Emeryville, California. I'm in my last 12 months of their Sound Arts program, which will net me a complete understanding (supposedly) of recording technologies and techniques as well as an accredited Bachelors of Science. While professionally I want to work in some facet of sound, my real passion lies with videogames. Ideally, I'd like to combine the two to make one superambition and do sound for videogames, but that's a whole other story for an entirely different time.

All Time Favorite Game:
Myth II: Soulblighter OMFG, while I love the Halo series, before Bungie got bought they were revolutionizing the RTS world when it was dominated by the likes of StarCraft with their robust gameplay, incredible 3d Graphics and realistic physics, and dwarves that threw explosive bottles while wearing little berets.... Myth II, I miss you...

First Gaming Memory:
Being taught to play Marathon by my aunt (A Buddhist Nun), Losing the manual and having her get upset with me. Some people had DOOM, I had marathon.

Favorite Genre:
Used to be RTS, now it's FPS - really, this was brought about because I'm a Mac User (Theres just no substitute when it comes to working with Audio) so I have to depend on consoles for my gaming needs... And seeing how theres a pretty serious shortage of RTS nirvana on the PS2, I've had to resort to my more... Primal desires. FPS Woot!

Pet Peeve:
I freaking hate proprietary formats. For that reason, I have a bias against Sony (Which is why I don't report that news, heh). Proprietary formats are a way of forcing consumers to give you money to use your products since nobody else can compete with them on that particular format. It irritates the hell out of me. Beyond that, I'm really irritated with the popular Media in general - So much of our news is spun one way or the other, chopped up, blended with little white lies, and dolled out to us in little kiddie sized servings that the "Press" thinks we can handle.... Poor, slow, little us....

What do I say to that? Well Screw you, and the horse you rode in on! I want the information and I want it now, and I want it in its cleanest, most true form so I can make my own damn decisions. If I can't deal with it its my own damn problem, so bug off IGN! /rant

Reason for Writing for GamerAndy.com
We live in the information age, and basically what that breaks down to is whoever controls the information controls the age. I HATE having to rely on something I know is wrong, or that slants the information before doling it out in the measured dosage our obviously inferior minds can handle without buckling under the strain. Jack Nicholson has a famous line "You can't handle the truth", and while that was once true of our society I don't think it is now. I'm an information junkie - I need it I want it give it to me. As much as you got as fast as you can. I know i'm not alone in this, especially amongst my peers on this wonderful thing we call the net. Gamerandy.com was put together in a matter of hours and the cast of characters assembled in a similar timeframe. As Long as there are people out there who think like I do, we'll be here. GA.com for Life, Yo. Number 1 in da hood G.