ame and Player is an online magazine dedicated to the pastime and culture of video gaming. We deliver sound editorial to sensible, literate gamers whose careers leave precious time for play. With analysis and commentary, Game and Player distinguishes the most worthwhile gaming pursuits and recommends the finest ways in which to enjoy them.

Learn how and why we rate games as we do.

Michael Ubaldi

Managing Editor

Michael Ubaldi, a copywriter, has plied trades in keeping with a melange of talents and interests — gallery ward, pizzamaker, coffee-slinger, marketer, graphic designer, recordist, draftsman, civil service commissioner. He considers invention before style, competence before appeal.

Ed Kirchgessner

Managing Editor

Ed Kirchgessner has been playing games since the dreaded Atari Crash of 1983. If those early titles and later works by Japanese greats like Fumito Ueda and Tetsuya Mizuguchi have taught him anything, it's that in the world of videogames, actions speak louder than words.

Jeremy Steeves

Editor-at-Large

Jeremy Steeves, a Kinesiology student, has an strong interest in sports and competition. While appreciating the finer details of a quality game, he values the whole experience above all.

Michael Belanger

His love for games has only been matched by his infatuation with science and photography, both of which have become staples of his occupation as a tropical meteorologist. A sucker for nostalgia, Michael waits patiently for the great arcade revival which he is sure will come.

Phil Harris

Philip Harris has been playing games since Donkey Kong on ColecoVision. A connoisseur of a wide variety of titles, he knows his first loves as adventure and action.

Zach Hines

Zachary Hines lives and works in Seattle's gaming industry. With a love for the medium, a degree in photography and a background in visual design, he champions the elevation of video games to an art form.

Gabriel McElwain

Gabriel McElwain was born in Pittsburgh, grew up west of Cleveland, and currently resides on the south side of Chicago. He enjoys thinking seriously about pop music, comics, word balloons, LEGO bricks, and baseball. Gabe hopes to one day become a professional songwriter or dinosaur.

Matthew Theroux

Matthew Theroux resides in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. A recent graduate of the University of Alberta with a bachelor of arts, he has been playing video games since the age of three, exploring and enjoying all genres.

Patrick Woods

Patrick Woods is an Iowa boy schooled in Chicago and Dublin, where a few collegiate game theory and economics courses shaped how he thinks today. He enjoys playing soccer and the bass guitar poorly, surfing the internet and HDTV with mastery, long sentences and commas, and referring to himself in the third person.

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