Our Team

Greg Morton, Editor-in-chief of That VideoGame Blog, has been gaming hardcore since The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros on the NES. Greg spent his earlier childhood in the Bay Area of California, and moved out to the Central Valley right before his teenage years. Over the course of his life, Greg has seen many hobbies come and go. Everything from baseball, paint balling, climbing, playing guitar, and more recently scuba diving and wakeboarding. The only thing he has never lost his love for is video games.

To this day, his all time favorite games are The Legend of Zelda for the NES, Majora's Mask and Ocarina of time for the Nintendo 64, Halo 2 and Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2 for the Xbox, Modern Warfare 3 for the Xbox 360, Dungeon Defenders and currently Eve Online for the PC.

Greg tweets about pretty much nothing @Master00Sniper. He also spends most of his free time on Steam, and you can find his profile here. Feel free to contact him with inquires or comments via Twitter, Steam, or the contact form for the site.

Cody Shults is a PhD student living and studying in Chicago, IL. When he isn’t doing research on nuclear receptors in the brain, he is most likely found in his man cave logging more hours in Skyrim on his PC. Gaming started very early for Cody, specifically at the tender age of 3, when his parents brought home the Nintendo Entertainment System. This is also when he met his first loves, Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. Although he has gone through many consoles, he always commits himself to the next Mario or Zelda iterations, and will always fondly remember his first three dimensional experiences on the Nintendo 64 with Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

Cody has a broad range of games he enjoys, but always finds himself coming back to the RPG. From the Elder Scrolls series to Final Fantasy, he enjoys spending hours immersed in a great story and grinding XP to hit the next level. When others associate a smell with a memory, Cody associates a game with a memory, as many gamers surely do. Some of his memorable gaming experiences include Half-Life 2, The Elder Scrolls (series), Bioshock, Diablo 2, Fallout 3, Final Fantasy 6-10, and Neverwinter Nights.

Cody is also a musician, and when he isn’t gaming, he is writing music. He plays guitar and synthesizers for his lovely fiancee and their cat, and also does some home recording of it. He is also a novice home brewer, and is most likely working on a new craft beer in his fermentation tank.

Cody received his B.Sc. from the University of South Florida in 2009, and is currently working on his PhD at Loyola University Chicago.

James Conway is an Editor for ThatVideoGameBlog. He is 23 years old and is a veteran of the United States Army. James is from Massachusetts and lived in El Paso, Texas for four years while serving in the Army. He often writes best when he is writing about something he doesn't like, such as a bad videogame or a bad product. Currently James is studying to become a (Insert Profession Here) and will graduate (Insert Future Date Here) from (Insert School Here). He honestly has no clue right now.

In his off time James is a very active gamer with his favorite genre's being role playing games, strategy games, first-person shooters, third person shooters and the occasional fighting game. He will not list his favorite game of all time however, that's like asking him which of his hypothetical children is his favorite.

William H. Hylton is a full-time geek and lives in Raleigh, North Carolina where he’s surrounded by cats, movies, books, and (of course) games. From the first time he threw a fireball as Mario and racked high scores on Duck Hunt while taking cover behind the couch, Will was hooked. He has an insatiable thirst for knowledge that carries over into all he does. He claims to know a little about a lot, and usually has the answer if you have the question.

When it comes to games, if it doesn’t involve strategy, level-building, and exploration, he probably won’t fall in love. His collection is eclectic. He prefers the traditional JRPG but Castlevania: SOTN and the Mass Effect series broadened his horizon. Exceptions to the niche are the Metal Gear Solid series, Heavy Rain, and the Uncharted series. He cursed like a girl and kicked the coffee table at Resident Evil 2 and Kuon, and will try his hand at shooters and fighters but ultimately sucks at them. And don’t ask about PC games, the original Wolfenstein was the only one he could play. He epically failed at Diablo and Legacy of Kain before switching to console.

Will was a horologist for eight years and is currently an optician, but when he’s not working the 9-5, Will’s passion is writing. Growing up reading Frank Peretti, Stephen Lawhead, and all the Han Solo novels, Will’s first writing experience was creative role-playing in AOL chat rooms. He’s never looked back. He has completed four novels and is currently looking for an agent so he can write full-time and work part-time. As far as he sees it, life couldn’t be any better than having the perfect excuse to play games and then write about them!

Aaron Morton is 22 years old and has spent at least 18 of those years gaming like there is no tomorrow. Some of his favorite games include Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Mario Galaxy, Portal 2, Dungeon Defenders, and the Zelda franchise. Seriously, this guy's love for Zelda is almost unhealthy. When he isn't gaming, Aaron loves to wakeboard, swim, and show off his gymnastic skills.

Aaron grew up in centeral California and started his first job coaching tumpling and trampoline classes. Recently he has moved to Sacremento to study computer programming at Sac State University. His dream is to one day create the greatest video game to ever be played with (or without?) a controller! For now he will have to settle with delivering pizzas.

Blas Garcia is a 24 year old filmmaker and writer from Irving, TX. His passion for video games began at an early age when his parents got him an NES with Super Mario and Duck Hunt. As he grew up, he discovered that gaming had its own community that surpassed playing video games and also involved art. This led him to study filmmaking and animation at the University of Texas at Austin, where he drew inspiration from classic and modern video games for his projects.

Nowadays, Blas likes to play first person shooters on his Xbox 360, though he admits he plays like a total n00b. He is a huge fan of the Assassin's Creed series and can be found online skillfully taking out his rival assassins. Every once in a while he likes to take it old school and will bust out his still working NES, or his 3DS to play Super Mario and Legend of Zelda titles. He is currently replaying his way through Ocarina of Time on the 3DS.

Career-wise, Blas has worked on indie film projects. Most recently, he worked on the animation for The Beat Hotel, a feature length documentary. He currently works full time at a media company preparing press releases, photos, and videos for clients. In his spare time, you can find Blas writing for That Video Game Blog, or posting on his personal blogs, one of which is dedicated to video game art and culture.

For 20 consecutive years, since his parents put a Nintendo Entertainment System in his hands (because who else could hook it up to the box?), Derek Bartnett has been in training for a career in gaming. His geek obsession with staying on top of the latest news and gaming trends can only be topped by his extensive knowledge in all things technology, movies and television. Derek is what you would call a classic early adopter. He requires all of the latest gadgets and gaming hardware, as soon as they become available, or he might just pass away.


Derek had an appreciation for video games as a child, but did not became a hardcore gamer until his thirteenth birthday when he was gifted with Golden Eye for Nintendo 64. Derek turned what is a 12 hour single player campaign into 350 hours over countless nights playing multiplayer with friends. Derek requires as many games as possible, across all platforms, in all formats. He's an advocate of all genres, but action adventure games have a special place in his heart, such as Dark Souls and God of War.

Derek is a graduate of Hofstra University class 2009 with a bachelors degree in Political Science. Derek currently resides in New York City, and is always in search for friends to game online with. PSN: Dseed, Xbox Live: Dseed86

Aaron is a big Nintendo fan living in suburban New Jersey. While his favorite game publisher hasn’t been very consistent in putting out legendary offerings lately, he’ll always come back to his Wii (or Wii U) for the next Mario or Zelda title. That’s probably because Mario and Link are the two heroes who first introduced him to videogames.

The first game Aaron fell in love with was Super Mario World, but The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past was his first obsession. Despite the outstanding 3D Zelda games to come out starting with 1998’s Ocarina of Time, A Link to the Past will always be Aaron’s favorite game. That’s likely due to the hours spent battling Ganon’s minions that defined his life as a six-year-old.

In more modern times, Aaron will dabble in shooters and RPGs. Despite the fact that he’s now in his mid-20s, he’s still an incurable Pokémon fanatic. Gritty, realistic shooters are great, but Aaron will always prefer the colorful fantasy lands produced by Nintendo games.

Aaron’s greatest triumph in gaming was when he finally defeated Ganon in the original Legend of Zelda. His greatest disappointment is that Yoshi’s Story is on the Wii’s virtual console, but Yoshi’s Island isn’t.

While Aaron is a big sports fan, he’s upset that the current landscape of sports games “forces” fans to buy a new title every year, even when an online update would suffice in most cases. Though he enjoys all Mario Karts, he’s adamant that Mario Kart 64 is overrated and Mario Kart: Double Dash is underrated.

Nick Christophi is a 20 year old university student currently living and studying in Ottawa, Ontario.

Hailing from the tiny island of Bahrain, Nick’s passion for playing video-games started at a very young age. Like many living in the third world, his first gaming experience involved a knock off gaming console; in his case, a knock off Nintendo gaming system called “The Family Game”. Although the console included almost every single game a kid could want to play at a young age, he eventually moved on to playing PC games like Half-Life and System Shock 2 on his family’s work computer.

He has since owned all of the Playstation consoles, and miraculously managed to not break, overheat, or hurt the feelings of the one flimsy Xbox 360 console he has owned since 2007.

Although Nick enjoys playing games of all sorts, he particularly enjoys playing games that are incredibly immersive. Games such as S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl, Far Cry 2, and games in the Mass Effect, Half-Life and Battlefield series, have all made him realize just how immersive and enjoyable video-games can be.

Nick is currently working towards a Joint Honours BA in Communications and Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. He is also a talented musician who plays the bass guitar, and produces his own music in his makeshift home studio during his abundant spare time.

Michael is a 22 year old accounting student who spends more time gaming than he spends doing journal entries (accounting terms). He resides in Montreal, Quebec where they are known for having incredible gaming studios and poutine (fries with gravy and cheese for those who don’t know what heaven is). His first gaming memory involved receiving what he believed was a brick for Christmas, but turned out to be the original Gameboy. 10,000 AA batteries later, Team Rocket fully felt his and Pikachu’s wrath in Pokémon Yellow. He owns over 10 consoles (somewhat thanks to his brother) and is a proud PlayStation Plus member. He’s grown to be a self-proclaimed master in a number of games. That includes beating the first Super Mario Bros game twice through without dying, beating Super Mario Bros 3 in one night on the NES and knowing what a TurboGrafix 16 is (among others). His favorite games include the entire Grand Theft Auto series, the Uncharted series, any Mario game made by Nintendo, The Mass Effect Trilogy, Tony Hawk’s Underground, Pokémon Yellow and White, and despite its flaws, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. He also wants you to know that he’ll kill you at any sports game; unless he’s playing his friends at Madden (then he’ll just shut the system before the game ends).
His greatest gaming achievement is getting Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas one day early because he was the first in the province to pre-order it, two years early. He prefers to have ring Sir Francis Drake’s ring (from Uncharted) hang on his rear view mirror rather than an air freshener. His dreams for future gaming include an Assassin’s Creed that has a useful ending that isn’t a money grab, getting Grand Theft Auto V two days early and for Nathan Drake to take over the world.
His Twitter is @mitchyclean and his PSN username is mitchyclean.
He is also the truest Commander Shepard.

Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, Dana Campbell has been a gamer for as long as she can remember. Her childhood consisted of playing various games on her Amica computer with her father, which then blossomed into a love for console gaming. Her favorite game growing up was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and is determined to someday re-play and finally beat Majora's Mask. That game still haunts her...

When she's not at work as a Paralegal/Legal Assistant, you'll find her watching football, listening to music, or playing her Xbox 360 and trying to up her current gamerscore of almost 28,000g. With a love for games ranging from Skyrim and Fallout to anything Call of Duty, she can not only keep up with the boys, but beat them.

Arthur Damian is a part-time College Assistant for Brooklyn College, working in the Office of Transfer Evaluations. At 27 years old, Arthur has a BA in English, and loves to read and write. Video games have been an important part of his life since he was 5, from the Nintendo Entertainment System all the way up to the Xbox360. An avid reader of gaming blogs, Arthur likes to keep up to date on all the happenings of the gaming world, and has his own blog on Destructoid's community forums. His favorite system is the Super Nintendo, and his favorite games are Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, Silent Hill 2, Resident Evil 4, Super Metroid, and Rocket Knight Adventures, among many others. When he isn't working or reading up on games, Arthur enjoys drumming along in Rock Band 3, the game that keeps on giving and has the honor of being one of the few games of which he has never gotten tired. Arthur has a vast knowledge of games, movies, and music, and he was always looking for ways to use it in real life applications. Arthur currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, with his mother, father, brother, and lovely dog, Pebbles.

Aaron has been an avid gamer since he recieved a brand-new spanking Genesis system at the wee age of five years old. He's been gaming hard ever since. He loves games for their storytelling ability, so out of all the genres, adventure, survival horror, and RPGs are his favorite. But really, any game that has the skills to affect him in a profound emotionally substantial manner will recive numerous rounds of applause!

Aaron isn't merely a gamer, but enjoys all forms of nerdom: comic books, films, board games, screenplays classical and contemporary literature, the list goes on forever. Above all else, he loves to act and write, and plans to move to Los Angeles soon to pursue a professional film career. He's now learning how to sing, dance, and play piano in order to ensure that all that happens.

He currently resides in Anderson, a small town nearby Indianapolis, IN and works as a waiter and freelance writer for his local newspaper to keep his bank account steady enough to survive.

Apart from writing for ThatGamingBlog, he also keeps a film blog at www.StickyShoeReview.com. Come visit if you have the time!

Evan Burkin attends Chapman University as an undergraduate majoring in Creative Writing.
He has been playing video games for as long as he can remember and enjoys all genres. His favorite system is the N64, on which he plays Mario Kart against his girlfriend, Sarah. Though, he appreciates all genres he tends to stick to RPG's such as Dark Souls.

Tim Nikoley has been an avid gamer going back to the SNES era, where he was introduced to games in by virtue of the classics, a rental copy of Power Rangers SNES. Throughout most of his life he has been gaming in some form or another. During the PSX era it would have been all you could do to tear him away from Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon. He was formally introduced to his favorite genre of all during that generation of gaming, RPGs, by the cult classic and still one of Tim's favorite guilty pleasures The Legend of Dragoon and Final Fantasy VIII (which is totally better than VII). After the PS2 era of which his favorite JRPG of all time emerged, Dragon Quest VIII, Tim fell out with console gaming as he bought a PS3 out of brand loyalty and felt burned.

So in 2008 he sought out greener pastures and noticed that an awesome space RPG, Mass Effect, was coming out and he was instantly in love with the concept for the game. However, ever the miser that he is, he did not want to spend $300 on a 360 for one game, so he did the next logical thing, he spent $1600 on a brand new shiny Alienware and the rest is history. He joined the PC gaming scene with a frenzy that might be described as unhealthy. Minecraft was released in its alpha form in early 2009 and Tim fell in love with it immediately. Many a night's sleep was missed due to Minecraft all nighters. He has sense become entrenched in the PC indie game scene as it is the one area that he sees true innovative gameplay ideas being developed as opposed to just iterative design.

Outside of the indie scene he really loves PC Western RPGs, Skyrim and Mass Effect series more than any other, (he and JRPGs fell into disfavor after what he calls "The Event", FF XIII) and grand strategy games such as Civ 5 and the Age of Wonders series. Outside of games all together he is working on his bachelors in archaeology at Northern Kentucky University. He does not yet know where he is going to go for his Masters and Doctorate yet, but he hopes to be able to get a scholarship and study abroad in England.

Between teaching high school English and Theatre and partaking in that rare luxury some call sleep, Ben Fraley likes to let his mind roam in the mystical lands of video games. From the fields of Hyrule to the mountains of Skyrim, Ben has been playing games since he got his first SNES when he was 5. From that ripe, young age, Ben has learned that games aren’t just entertainment, they are a way of life.
On his free time, Ben likes to watch movies and TV, as he is a self-proclaimed cinephile. He also is a writer and a musician. Ben has been singing and playing guitar in bands for 3-4 years. This also fuels his passion for the Rock Band game series. He can probably be found belting out some of the classics from his bedroom stage.
As he gets older, Ben has had less and less time to play games due to adult job responsibilities and trying to understand a word his loving girlfriend attempts to explain to him about physics and other science stuff. Despite this though, Ben strives to find out what you need to know, when you need to know it, about the games you care about….or at least that he hopes you care about, even if you don't.

Albert Eres first exposed himself to the wonders of video games through the archaic block called the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). After countless hours of trying to save the princess in Super Mario Bros. and shooting relentless ducks in Duck Hunt, his world has not been the same. He graduated from the NES to the PlayStation and experienced the world of Final Fantasy (specifically the seventh installment), a franchise that he is still obsessed with to this day. He also dabbled with the handheld console called the Game Boy, where Pokémon Blue Version took a chunk of his childhood. Unfortunately, he never owned the other version and is majorly aware of only the original 150 monsters.

So far, Albert has owned the NES, most versions of the Game Boy, Wii, and all three generations of the PlayStation. He is mainly interested in adventure, fighting, and role-playing games. For a period of time, he only played flash games. His Steam account is full of Humble Bundle games that he still has not found the time to play. However, he is addicted to mobile games that make a player run, fly, or swim continually; allow a player to pick a class and go kill countless enemies; and test a player’s mettle with puzzles with ridiculous solutions.

Albert rarely tweets on Twitter (@hexcursed), but when he does, it may or may not be important. His Steam account is most likely deactivated due to inactivity. His friendless PSN username is hexcursed.

Since the age of ten, Angelica Dominguez, or Angela for short has been “beasting” on video game systems. Ever since you obtained her first Nintendo 64, she was hooked. She spent her whole life buying video game system after video game system just to play all the games the world had to offer. Her favorite game growing up was Kingdom Hearts. Now, you can find her aiming to reach Prestige Master in Call of Duty: Black Ops II or playing any zombie game she can find.

In her spare time, she writes and works at a local retail store. She also spends it re-watching episodes of Doctor Who, Supernatural and Grimm. She currently resides in Houston, TX attending the University of Houston where she is aiming to obtain a Master Degree in Public Relations and a minor in Creative Writing. She speaks English and Spanish, but is also fluent in French and Italian.

Gilad had been gaming for years (and we do mean years). Being nearly 40 years old Gilad had managed to play nearly anything from the old Atari 80 consoles to the latest gaming consoles.
Gilad is a technology "freak", always online and always reading and writing news. His real passion (also a kind of toy) is RC 3D Helicopters.
His favorite all times game? Well Siera's king quest's series :-)