GameShark.com is run by a handful of dedicated staffers and regular contributors who pay attention to what readers are interested in and excited about.

This includes (but is not limited to) the latest Codes or GameSaves for GameShark devices, Mad Catz products, information and news on the latest games, product previews and reviewers, interviews with the industry's most interesting people, and features on the hottest music, television and movies.

GameShark.com offers its readers content they thirst after, but this is made wholly possible by a staff dedicated to delivering content that is honest, fun and informative. Below is a list of the hard working team of writers that delivers the goods every day here at GameShark.com.

William Abner : Editor in Chief:

William is a seasoned writer and long-time gamer that enjoys everything from MMORPG's to board games. Prior to joining the GameShark team full time, William regularly contributed to such web sites as GameSpy, The Escapist, Crispy Gamer as well as GameShark, and print magazines like the excellent Computer Games Magazine and Massive. William is an avid expert sports and strategy gamer, and an accomplished author (William published his first book, The 2006 Gamer's Tome of Ultimate Knowledge, in 2006). Beyond all that he has nearly 15 years of experience covering the interactive entertainment industry.



Jeff McAllister : Senior Editor/Community Manager:

Playing video games of all shapes and sizes since he was knee high to an arcade cabinet, Jeff brings an extensive range of gaming knowledge to the Game Shark team. In the past he has written for gaming companies such as MPlayer, IGN and GameSpy, but now resides here as the GameShark News Editor. He is most comfortable with a controller and keyboard in hand and can be found writing about games and the gaming culture at just about any given moment on any given day.



Contributing Writing Staff:



David VanDyk:

To survive in today’s gaming industry, you need an appreciation for the finer things in life; giant robots, space lasers, and every available DVD release of Knight Rider, for example. At least, that’s how David sees the world. Fighting for the underrated side of the industry, his favorite genres tend to lie in simulation and complex strategy titles (being one of the only staff members to own two copies of Steel Battalion), but that doesn’t mean he don’t enjoy diving into a little Halo 3 and Half-Life 2 action every now and then. His general rule of thumb for gaming is that if it has a good story, then by extension it’s an experience worth purchasing; Proper immersion into a game is something that should be explored at any opportunity.



Todd Brakke

Todd has been a gamer since the days of the Apple IIe and has whittled his life away on various consoles from the Atari 5200 all the way up to the Xbox 360. But his gaming heart is devoted fully to the platform where the real men play their games: the PC. By day Todd makes his living criticizing the work of other authors. By night, when he's not begging his kids to -for the love all things holy- eat their darn vegetables, he obsesses over his pile of underplayed sports, strategy and role playing games.



Troy S. Goodfellow

Troy is an overeducated and underemployed freelance writer based in Maryland. He's been published many places that you have heard of and many more that you haven't.



Brandon Cackowski-Schnell

Brandon Cackowski-Schnell has been hooked on gaming ever since he realized he could save his progress in Space Quest and not redo the opening few hours over and over. He enjoys gaming on all consoles, but loves his DS more than any rational person would consider normal. When not writing reviews, or as Mister Binky for GameShark.com, he writes for his own site, Disparate Elements which is ignored by countless millions every day.



Tony Mitera

Over a decade of solid gaming has taught Tony one thing; that between now and then he has always held a passion for sharing his views on the world of videogames. When not writing about them he spends his free time playing a variety of different game genres, though he stake claim mostly with the shooter and action camps. Living in the Midwest, which probably could explain his shameful infatuation with Harvest Moon, and his other pastimes include playing paintball and the bass guitar (though rarely at the same time).



Brian Rowe

Brian is a renaissance gamer with impeccable taste and talent, whose skill with a controller is only rivaled by his deceptively majestic contortions of the English language. Through his mastery of the digital realm, from AAA titles to import shmups, he's proven time and again...

Who are we kidding? The guy's an anime-nerd with a zombie fetish who plays DDR in bowling allies. He does have a nifty tattoo of Vault-boy though.



Danielle Riendeau

Danielle is a Boston-based freelance writer and grad student, with a bent in entertainment journalism and a love of spinning the latest film or game release as a "culturally relevant event". She's been gaming since infancy, and is very proud that her Nintendo DS is prominently on display in her college graduation picture. She's also a runner, EMT, and semi-closeted sci-fi geek.



Mitch Dyer

Because he couldn't decide what to do after high school, Mitch accidentally wound up freelance writing for a number of videogame websites and magazines. Years later, the onslaught of GameShark review assignments and event coverage has kept Mitch close to his computer and away from the classroom. If you just can't get enough of GameShark's coolest Canadian, you can subject yourself to his Twitter feed and read more of his uneducated gaming-related babble at DownWriteFierce , a blog he shares with GameShark contributor Meghan Watt, where the only worthwhile content he creates is the domain name.



Toni Schwartz

Toni's writing career began in third grade when a random British woman visited her class and praised her epic novel, "Woody Woodpecker and His Friend Blue Jay". Since then, Toni has written for her college paper, her own blogs, and various online publications. Toni used to hail from sunny Southern California but can now be found lurking in the bowels of Silicon Valley. When she's not hunched over her desk writing or reading about games, she's hunched over her desk running around Middle-earth as a dwarf Minstrel in Lord of the Rings Online. That is, if she's not hunched over the coffee table playing with her DS on the couch.