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Overview:

Brutal Gamer was a website started by Viatrophy/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 only 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:

Viatrophy -

Real name: Leigh
Role on BG: Site founder/editor
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 and PS3
Xbox Live gamer tag: NEB Viatrophy
PSN ID: SG_Viatrophy

Moosehound -

Real name: Zeth
Role on BG: Editor
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

Ognawk -

Real name: Mike
Role on BG: 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

Spoon -

Real name: Jeff
Role on BG: 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

Keats -

Real name: Barry
Role on BG: Site writer /editor (?)
About me: I’m studying History and Politics (it’s interesting I swear!) in Ireland. Was away for a year and turned to writing about games in lieu of being able to play them. Now I do both!
Favorite genres of games: Third Person Action (Assassins Creed, Splinter Cell, Devil May Cry etc),  Open World (Sandbox) and Frist Person Shoters (although I’m not so great at them!)
Current consoles owned: Xbox 360, Gamecube (still play it almost as much) and DS.
Xbox Live gamer tag: EchoShade

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