- Xbox 360 GT:
- PSN ID:
- Age:
- 27
- Gender:
- Male
- Location:
- Iowa
- Gamer Type:
- Party Time
- Clan:
- GoG
- Clan Rank:
- Overlord
Game Hardware:
- GameCube
- NES
- Nintendo 64
- Nintendo Wii
- PC
- PlayStation
- PlayStation 2
- PlayStation 3
- PSP
- Sega Dreamcast
- Super NES
- Xbox
- Xbox 360
Games:
CoD: Modern Warfare 2
Call of Duty 4
Halo 3: ODST
Borderlands
Halo Wars
Call of Duty: WaW
Left 4 Dead
Gears of War
A Kingdom For Keflings
Halo 2
GTA IV
Madden
Fifa
Guitar Hero
Tiger Woods
The Bigs
Shaun White Snowboarding
Mario Kart Wii
Wii Bowling
Super Mario Galaxy
Lumines I and II
Every Extend Extra
Hot Shots Golf
Game Genres:
- Action-adventure
- Arcade
- City-building Simulation
- First-person shooter
- Massively Multiplayer Online Games
- Music
- Puzzle
- Sports
- Third-person shooter
Gamer Bio:
The arcade version of Pacman/Donkey Kong at the dentist's office, PC games like Asteroid and text-based adventure games, and the NES were my first main exposures to video games as a child. This was before you paid for the Internet by the minute and I can remember when I bought the NES used from a friend...the $150-some dollar investment was a major decision for me and my parents, but with the games that came with it, I had to have it! I can also remember the friends I had back then, only because they owned the hottest video game console, lol.
I've been a gamer all my life and hit it especially hard in college, where I aspired to design them. We would spend endless hours gaming with friends in school and after I received my Computer Science degree, I went out and tried to jump into the industry.
I soon found out that these days, you really need a video game specific degree. I interviewed with High Voltage Software(Illinois) and had a job offer in San Diego as a game tester for Sony products, but ended up coming back to Des Moines, Iowa and fell into the Internet.
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I've worked at Captain Jack Communications ever since, developing projects for clients and organizing the sales process for our 12-15 person company. It's a great position and the ideal job for my skills. It's also allowed me to develop The Iowa 3v3 Soccer Challenge, which was my first entrepreneurial experience that I developed completely on my own. (www.iowa3v3soccer.com explains that venture 
) After 2 years of that large event being very successful and still wanting to get into the video game industry, I conceptualized this place.
One night, during a night of 4-person gaming, I opened up the idea to Andy, my best friend. With his health issues in the past, we had been able to stay connected with each other through video games and it created a special bond between us. We decided that this would be a chance to develop a business together and the rest is history!
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These days, I personally enjoy FPS games the most and Wii games with friends, but can appreciate almost anything. Our live video game tournaments/events are so cool and it allows me to make friends through this unique entertainment medium and finally, I can consider myself a part of the video game industry!
My long-term goal for this GoG community, is to see the membership continue to grow over 10,000 users and to help develop tools for all of us to use together...
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Iowa Pro Gaming
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GoG 5,000 Party
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MLG Dallas 09
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E3 2009
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MLG Meadowlands
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BlackBerry Event
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WinterWonderLAN
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MassiveNYC Event
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MLG Dallas
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E3 2008
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Microsoft TechEd
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Jodie
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RyuBlitz
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I Am Marksman
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DecipherOne
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GoG
BEN has 279 chronicles
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MW2 - My Level 70 (finally)
Player Chronicle -- Posted on Feb 09 2010
So I feel like I'm light years behind, especially when I'm playing with all you GoG members that have numerous prestige counts, but tonight I was able to f...
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VIBRAS Five.One Gaming Headset Review
Player Chronicle -- Posted on Feb 07 2010
It’s likely you’ve heard about Track Scan and their support of The Iowa Pro Gaming Challenge, which is in Des Moines on March 13th-14th, 2010. Track Sca...
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GoG Forum Upgrade
Player Chronicle -- Posted on Feb 01 2010
We've been talking about an upgrade around the GoG Forum for a long time. I can't count how many people have requested avatars and some sort of signature ...
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Team Foxy - Thanks For The Thank You
Player Chronicle -- Posted on Jan 30 2010
So this week I checked the old PO Box and was a surprised to have some mail from Colorado. I wasn't sure what it was, but when I open, I had a very pleasa...
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CPU22GIRL
Posted On Feb 03 2010Disregard the ref. code question....I figured that part out.
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A-Thon X
Posted On Feb 02 2010Public Service Announcement: Due to Forum construction all sensless comments shall be redirected to individual profiles. Resistance is futile. That is all
P.s. what would Master Chief do if he suddenly had to pee real bad?
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Achilled
Posted On Feb 01 2010You should convince Ben to go to the Doritos/ MLG combine...I mean Ethan..my fault, lol. It's in Tennessee, as far as I know.
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LadyLiliBean
Posted On Jan 31 2010I can't go to CGS this year.
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Ironman
Posted On Jan 30 2010I was wondering what the guaranteed prize for the tournament was b/c were gonna have to spend alot of money to get up there
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MaTrIx
Posted On Jan 26 2010Thanks, the 20 games of the decade got me thinking. Just figured I would update it some. Prince of Persia and Arkham Asylum just stood really stood out over the last couple years. Wait a minute...I forgot one.
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Achilled
Posted On Jan 25 2010Not sure, It uploads the photos fine, but it just doesn't show the picture..It shows that it is there, but no picture..I'll let you know.
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Achilled
Posted On Jan 24 2010"Could not copy file 0368492001264363955_profile.jpg to temporary location: images/profiles/temporary/0368492001264363955_profile.jpg"
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Achilled
Posted On Jan 24 2010It said that I can upload .jpg .gif etc..and no more than 2,000 KB..My pictures are 4-8 KB each..And it still doesn't show.
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krazy army girl
Posted On Jan 23 2010thats right around the same time as PAX East. Well not too far off. Whats going on the 13-14??
