About
No More Game Blogs is a place to talk about games. What we love about them, what we hate about them. What's new and innovative, retro, cool or old & stale; we will talk about everything that's gaming. Feel free to talk about whatever in the forum or leave us some comments. All the ads on the site help pay to keep us afloat so please click on them.
Staff
(In order of joining the site)
Matt Galvin - Founder/Owner
Jake Handy - Writer
Mike van Gelder - Admin/Writer/Editor
Kit Marlowe - Writer
Travis Wahlstedt - Admin/Writer
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Matt Galvin: Founder/Owner/Writer
Matt Galvin is a videogame nut. He's been playing video games since 1986 when his dad was the first on the block to get the Sega master system, Alex Kidd in Wonderland anyone? Then soon after onto N.E.S, were he picked up many goombas and entered many magical doors. In 1990 he went through Casino Land on the Genesis only to jump on a dinosaurs back on Super N.E.S, that same year he got his first Gaming PC. He then found out what all the PC gamers were talking about with Wolf 3D, Doom, Doom 2 and its only kept going throughout the years. From 1983 to 2009 Matt Galvin has been a gamer.
"Basically I've had every video game system ever made, played most game on every system including PC classics like Monkey Island, Neverhood, Duke 3D, Blood, Outlaws...you name it I've probably played it."
So, to sum it up, what’s this blog about?
"I've pretty much played everything and I'll pretty much play anything as long as its fun. On this blog I hope to talk about games, what I like and don’t like and any news about this ever changing industry."
;)
Jake Handy is what one would consider an "in the now" gamer. Raised in the Playstation/N64 generation, Jake was never prone to video games at first. As he grew, however, he found video games more and more interesting until he eventually gave in. Sticking to mostly PC gaming, Jake now plays games constantly and loves even more to write about them. Some of his favorites include Shadow of the Colossus, Kingdom Hearts, Mass Effect, Burnout Paradise, and the Penumbra series.
"I've always found the inner workings of gaming fascinating, and usually stick to writing about the creators of games rather than the games themselves. I guess it's because I'm really not that good at playing video games."
Jake currently owns a PS2, PSP, PC, and DS and is looking into jumping on the next-gen train with a PS3.
Mike van Gelder: Admin/Editor/Writer
Michael "Mike" van Gelder was born and still resides in Africa. His first gaming experience came at a very young age, when he waited desperately for his older brothers to load up the latest tape-based game onto the family ZX-Spectrum system. Not satisfied with the technicality needed to play and load the games (and not helping that he was only four and couldn't read properly), he soon saved up his allowance and invested in a "Golden China Video Game Cartridge Machine", and only years later did he realise that he had bought a rebranded Nintendo NES system. All the games were in Taiwanese, so it was purely a gameplay driven exercise in gaming.
From there, he skipped the "everybody's got one" rage of the SEGA Megadrive (Genesis for you Americans) and went onto PC gaming, developing the fine art of blowing up his brothers' ships in Star Control II (what a classic that was!) on the family PC. Year later, he won his next console, the Sony PlayStation, in a colouring competition, and was firmly hooked on the PlayStation brand from then on in.
Today, his PlayStation gathers dust in the closest, replaced by a gleaming PlayStation 3. He's a pretty wicked Guitar Hero player (plays on expert), and is interested in tracking the ebb and flow of the 7th generation of video games. He is eagerly awaiting all the big-name PS3 titles coming out in the next few months, and wonders where he will find the money to buy them all.
;)
Kit Marlowe was an innocent young man (often mistaken for a girl) until he stumbled upon video gaming over ten long years ago. Since then he has stooped to committing countless crimes in order to fuel his terrible addiction. His favorite genres are RPGs, tactical/strategy games, and on occasion, hack-and-slash games. Being crazy young, his first system was a Gameboy at the age of five, but since then he’s garnered a PS2, XBOX, DS, PSP, and is picking up his PS3 any day now. He is absolutely convinced that one day his video game abilities will come in handy, such as guiding an army of scrappy teenage heroes through a horde of faceless evil or, in the event of being mugged, being able to yell “SKEITH!” and having a huge being will consume from his body. Aside from gaming, his hobbies include writing, bodysurfing, and watching Hulu.
Travis Wahlstedt: Admin / Staff Writer ;)
Travis Wahlstedt has only been gaming since the PlayStation 1 after his father brought it home from the used bookstore with Frogger. Since then he has owned a PS2, GameCube, Xbox, Xbox 360, every Game Boy, PSP, and DS; but he destroyed every single one of them once he finally got the PC of his dreams.
Well ok, his 360 red ringed and he threw his GameCube out after three weeks because he despised it but everything else he sold. Now he is a 17 year old high school student who plays Audiosurf during history class on his laptop when he isn’t flirting with the ladies.
When he gets home he has giant PC rig instead of a HD TV with a console. He has played just about every PC RPG that has come out in the last three years, including Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind (which he poured 682 hours into!) Besides devoting his life to RPGs he also likes strategy games and the occasional shooter. On top of his gaming and writing Travis also enjoys going to many metal concerts and sitting down with a good fantasy book -- when he isn’t out on the town with his friends doing many a nefarious deed.