About Us
Overview:
Brutal Gamer was a website started by Leigh on July 13th 2008 and from launch it has had a great backing staff, eager to write (Mitch, Addison and Chexd) and a great IT guy to help get things started (By help I mean pretty much did everything, thanks Regua!) Brutal Gamer is not a website biased to one console or a specific piece of hardware, over all the staff members we cover all area’s of the gaming universe.
What makes Brutal Gamer different from other gaming websites is that we will be as harsh as possible as long as its true (note our slogan; ‘brutally honest!’) The website will mainly be based around the following things:
- First Impressions
- Game/Hardware Reviews
- Up to date gaming news
- Competitions (when were able to get a hold of items worth giving away)
- Original blog features
- Community/forums
Reviews:
At Brutal Gamer we will release reviews as soon as they have been edited/checked and are ready for your reading. The reviews are now written on a 1-10 star scale, 0 being the lowest, 5 being average and 10 being highest. If a game receives a 10 from us, it does not mean its perfect in any way, instead it goes under a ‘editors choice’ title.
If the same game is reviewed on multiple platforms, one review will go under all platforms it applies to, the review will address the differences in the versions (if there are any). However, this rule o
nly applies to games where they’ve been developed for consoles which are similar (such as the graphic power, online features and control schemes) so the best example being the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.
About The Staff:
Your editors are as follows
Leigh -
Role on BG: Site founder/Editor in Chief
About me: I’m at College studying Business, and love writing/blogging about games in my spare time.
Favorite genres of games: FPS, TPS, platformers and action
Current consoles owned: Xbox 360, DS, PSP and PS3
Xbox Live gamer tag: NEB Viatrophy
PSN ID: SG_Viatrophy
Zeth -
Role on BG: Reviews Editor / Deputy EiC
About me: Gamer since a kid in 1982. Work in IT. Written several games for the Amiga back in the day… ah the good old days – someone even bought some once..
Favorite genres of games: 3rd Person Action Adventures, Platformers, Shooters and anything that does not suck
Current consoles owned: PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox360, CD32, Wii, DS Lite, PSP Phat, Megadrive
PSN ID: Moosehound
Xbox Live gamer tag: M00513
Steam : moosehound
Mike -
Role on BG: Community Manager / Podcast Editor
About me: Been playing games since I got a Commodore +4 as a kid. Admittedly a bit of a Nintendo geek.
Favourite genres of games : RPG, Puzzle, Platform, FPS, TPS
Current consoles owned: PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS Lite
PSN ID: Ognawk
Xbox Live gamer tag: Ognawk
Jeff -
Role on BG: News Editor
About me: Married with two kids and we are a family of gamers.
Favorite genres of games: RPGs, Stealth, Shooters
Current consoles owned: Xbox360, Wii, DS
Xbox Live gamer tag: SirSpooneth
Barry -
Role on BG: Content Editor & Podcast Host
About me :A freelance games writer moonlighting as a would-be academic
Favorite genres of games: Third Person Action (Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell, Devil May Cry etc), Open World (Sandbox)
Current co
nsoles owned: Xbox 360, Gamecube (still play it almost as much), PSP and DS.
Xbox Live gamer tag: EchoShade
Contributors to BrutalGamer:
BrutalGamer also has a rank of regular talented feature and review writers who shall be recognised here:- Diortem, Harry Bandell, Ascension & John Brady.
If you have any other questions, please visit the Contact Us page.
