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Gaming Today

		Ron Whitaker, News Manager Ron got his start in gaming at an early age, with a classic Atari 2600. Since then, he’s owned just about every gaming console known to man. However, with age he realized that PC games were the greatest draw for him. Accordingly, he spent years burying himself in online shooters. These days, he can be found playing anything from Battlefield: Vietnam to World of Warcraft to Company of Heroes, or anything in between. If he’s not gaming, he spends his time enjoying one of his many hobbies, which include ballroom dancing, decorative hedge-trimming, and of course, listening to Jimmy Buffett songs and enjoying drinks with little umbrellas in them.
		Shawn Sines, News Editor Shawn Sines is an avid game player and a former US Marine who has been writing video game review and feature pieces freelance for over 6 years. He served as the game reviewer for The Columbus Dispatch, Columbus Alive and Columbus Parent in Columbus Ohio. He is also the co-host of GameOn! a video game podcast hosted by the Dispatch Media Group. Shawn’s personal favorite genre are RPGs and Strategy, though at the latter he never claims to be very good despite hours of trying.
		Jonathan Fincher, News Editor Thus far, Jonathan Fincher is the only human recorded in history to have been literally born out of a game console, specifically an Atari VCS. Due to the nature of his birth, he spent almost the first decade of his life undergoing a series of scientific evaluations until, at the tender age of nine, he was put into the care of an unsuspecting couple in a small town.
		Stephany Nunneley, News Editor Stephany is a 21st century Donna Reed with an Ellie Mae Clampett twist, a dash of Madonna, a sprinkling of Monty Python, and a pinch of Edgar Allan Poe, all rolled into the body of Mae West with red hair who plays the piano and cello. She has been an avid gamer since playing Space Invaders at her local Foodtown at age 6. Owning many consoles, ranging from Intellivision to the Xbox 360, she spends as much time being a gamer as she does being a mother to 2 dogs and 6 cats. She currently lives with her gaming obsessed boyfriend Neil.
		Chris Pereira, News Editor Chris isn’t quite your average gamer. He likes his sports, his shooters, his puzzlers; virtually everything. What he likes even more, however, is griefing. He’s that evil guy talking with a funny voice about having IBS or demanding to know why you’re hacking anytime you get the upper-hand in a multiplayer game. But, he’s put up with because he knows the videogame industry as well as anyone, with over six years of experience as a videogame journalist, previously serving as the Editorial Director of the GamerNode Network and writer at various other outlets. A cynic and diehard gamer at heart, he’s always searching for the truth. Maybe he’d find it if he weren’t so busy watching The X-Files.
		Pepe, Gaming Today Intern Gaming Today’s newest staff member and only editorial intern, Pepe came to us in an unusual convergence of circumstances at E3 2007. We didn’t even know we needed an intern but thanks to the kind folks at Eidos and a gift from a Cimmerian king, Pepe has come to America and Gaming Today to offer his services and the perspective that only a desiccated shrunken head can offer on the modern video game scene. Pepe hopes his work for Gaming Today will earn him enough money to move into a place of his own but until that unlikely day (it’s an unpaid internship) he’s staying in News Editor Shawn Sines’ basement.