About Us
What is “GameCrashers?”
GameCrashers is the product of a simple thought: not feeling ashamed for loving video games more than anyone else. We’re here because the video game industry is a crazy place. Some one has to decipher the lunacy that gets posted on the inter-webs every day. Get ready for honest opinions, comedic commentaries, occasionally competent reviews, and partially inebriated podcast hosts. We’re not you’re usual video game website. We’re gamecrashers and we’re okay with that.
Who is “GameCrashers?”
Rob "DarkSide" James - Lead Editor
Rob James
GameCrashers’ overlord and general head pooh-bah, Rob has been a video gamer since the “not-so-heady” days of Battle Chess and Wolfenstein. These days, when he’s not working as a video editor, television producer, and writer, he has made it his goal to immerse himself in as much of the video game culture as possible. When he’s not playing video games he spends a good portion of his time with his photography, and living it up in NYC. GameCrashers is the product of a simple thought: not feeling ashamed for loving video games more than anyone else.
Email: theblog@gamecrashers.net
PSN: DarkSideDes
Xbox Live: Desanvium
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David "Boris" Orosz - Review Editor
David Orosz
Born and raised in Long Island, New York, Boris presently lives with his beautiful wife in Los Angeles where he is pursuing a life of game programming/design and crime fighting. He has worked for THQ, Disney Interactive Studios on many secret endeavors that he cannot tell you about, along with an assortment of personal prospective projects he also cannot tell you about. In his free time he’s stuck doing podcasts for no money with Rob. He is a lucky, lucky man.
Email: boris@gamecrashers.net
PSN: BorisTI
Twitter: BorisTI
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Sean "StridentBadge" Marks - Console Editor
Sean Marks
Sean was born into poverty in 1982. It all blurs together until about 2006 when he met Rob (Ed: and beer was had by all). His lovely girlfriend often refers to him as a “stone cold fox”, most likely due to the amount of hair covering his body. He holds a lucrative position in the entertainment industry, which this blog will eventually cost him. He joined Gamecrashers under the guise of fame and fortune and has received nothing but a sore anus thus far. He is very happy none of his fellow Gamecrashers are fat.
Email: sean@gamecrashers.net
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Brian "The Hurt" Hertler - Indie Editor
Brian Hertler
Due to the unspeakable nature of his crimes, Brian was recently exiled to Atlanta, where he’s now studying games as part of the Digital Media program at Georgia Tech. GameCrashers turns to him for opinions on previous-gen and independent games, mainly because he’s too lazy/cheap to upgrade his hardware. He toils under the delusion that he’ll eventually become a world-famous indie game designer millionaire, and everyone else is too polite to tell him otherwise.
Email: brian@gamecrashers.net
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Jason "Peroni" Perini - PC Editor
Jason Perini
Jason Perini is the resident PC gaming snob. He hasn’t owned a console since the SNES (other than a freely acquired, quickly-dying XBox 1 that functioned solely as a Soul Calibur II machine). He loves first person shooters, PC RPGs, and games where you build spaceships that shoot other spaceships. He lives in New York City and works as a computer programmer for The Man. He is a regular on the Gamecrashers Podcast because he loves to listen to the melodious sound of his own voice.
Email: jason@gamecrashers.net
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Jonathan Barrickman - Retro Editor
Jonathan Barrickman
After breaking a deal and spinning the wheel in Boston, Jonathan Barrickman was placed backward on a horse while wearing a huge cartoon mask and sent into the desert to die. He ended up in Denver, where he now works on bringing events, 3D, and the benefits of digital projection (i.e. inflated ticket prices) to the unwashed masses. In his role as retro games editor, he brings an impressive (pathetic) knowledge of gaming through the ages, culled from his over 20 years of experience playing games across multiple systems instead of becoming a productive member of society.
Email: brickman@gamecrashers.net
Xbox Live: BurningStickMan