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Who are you?
I'm Gaia Steinbuch.

What kind of gamer are you?
I'm interested in lots of different types of games—but my favourite genre would have to be role-playing games (RPGs) and older real-time strategy games (RTSs). I mostly play single player games (I like a game with a good story), sometimes co-op with my boyfriend. I never play multiplayer with strangers, it doesn't appeal to me. I prefer to play games in shorter periods of times because I get tired easily. I play most of my games on the PC but I also own a PS3, Wii and DS on which I game now and then.

Who are you?
My name is Albert Hidding. I'm a 25 year old Film Studies student. I adore culture and especially film, games, music and theatre.

Where are you?
I live in Utrecht, a city in the middle of The Netherlands. But I actually travel a lot, since my University and my girlfriend are each located in a different town. In November I will also be doing an internship for a film festival in yet another city. Fortunately The Netherlands is really small and Dutch students receive free travel with public transport.

Who are you?
My name is Andreas Tang (usually logged in as aHei)

Where are you?
I'm originally Chinese (Hong Kong) but was born in Belgium.

Where are you from?
I'm currently in Brussels.

Who are you?
Christopher David Butler Johnson - or Chris for short. 32 years old.

Where are you?
Currently living in Leuven, Belgium (near Brussels)

Where are you from?
Born and raised in Minnesota, I spent a number of years in and around Chicago, with stints in Ann Arbor, Berkeley, and Boston. Minnesota is still home, but in an alien sort of way.

Who are you?
Name's Tim van Ingen, 32 years old.

Where are you?
I live in Osaka, Japan.

Where are you from?
Haarlem, The Netherlands.

Who are you?
I'm an opera singer and long time GameCritics reader and podcast listener.

Where are you?
I am based in Brooklyn, NY but I travel a bit.

Where are you from?
Just outside of Rochester, NY but I singing has taken me from Ithaca, NY to Seattle, WA, to Binghamton, NY to Denver, CO to New York, NY to Fairbanks, Alaska with tons of small stops in between.

My name is Gary Howard, a 20 year old British student of game design and lover of games and the industry. Also a massive geek with too many videogame-related t-shirts to wear.

The GameCritics.com Staff would like to welcome its newest member, Samuel Kirk Spaeth.

Little Sammy telling Tim what he thinks of the GameCritics.com podcast.

Proud poppa, Tim Spaeth, reports that he was born Wednesday morning (April 15th) and weighed in at 7 pounds, 4 ounces.

Sadly, being born on Tax Day virtually guaranteed that he, his parents and President Obama will be about the only people in the United States celebrating that day.

Congratulations to Tim and his wife from everyone at GameCritics.com.

It's that time of year again (i.e. the beginning of a new one) so in keeping with the tradition held by gamers all across the globe, GameCritics.com locked four of its staffers in a very small, uncomfortable room and forced them to come up with a list of 2008's top releases. Unlike years past, there was quite a diversity of high-quality software available with no one title that seemed to build up the kind of critical mass necessary to sweep the industry. Instead, there was a little bit of everything for everyone, and quite a lot of it was excellent. Not a bad situation, any way you slice it.