About GameCrate

Brandon Hofer has been covering the gaming industry since 2006 and has been an avid gamer for 30 years starting with the NES. His favorite franchises include The Last of Us, The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, Assassin’s Creed, Mass Effect, and Call of Duty.

​For more than six years, Cade has closely followed the ins and outs of the video game industry while writing features, opinion pieces, reviews, interviews, analyses, and news updates. If he isn't writing about video games, Cade is playing every possible title he can get his hands on in order to deepen his understanding of the medium and its trends.

Carli Velocci is a journalist with a decade of experience in video games, technology, and culture.

Charles Storm is a lifelong gamer, former co-host of the Lagging Balls gaming podcast, former GM of the Blood of the Scribe World of Warcraft guild, and a Browncoat for life.

Cole Martin is a writer and artist living out in the absolute middle of nowhere who has a love for obscure indie games and also Call of Duty. You can find her posting occasionally on Twitter @eternalrhage.

​Derek has worked in games journalism and PC gaming hardware and has a depth and breadth of experience across many genres. He plays almost everything but has a particular fondness for challenging games like the -Souls series and real-time strategy titles. 

Garrett is a writer and editor with over a decade of professional writing and editorial experience. For the past year, he has been the editor of Gamer Digest. He loves playing games in just about every genre and is a Master on the Starcraft 2 ranked ladder. You can find his musings on Twitter @GarroWrites.

James is a freelance games journalist who covers everything from turn-based RPGs to the latest first-person shooters. He is obsessed with finding good loot and starting new farms in Stardew Valley. You can follow him on Twitter @JamesTheCarr, where you can likely find him arguing that Super Mario Sunshine is the best 3D Mario.

Joe Deez is a professional writer, unashamed tech geek, and pop culture enthusiast. He teaches young people to handle adversity by using humor and he plays vintage Atari games in his spare time.

Lucas plays a lot of videogames. Sometimes he enjoys one. His favorites include Dragon Quest, SaGa, and Mystery Dungeon. You can find him on Twitter @HokutoNoLucas being curmudgeonly about Square Enix discourse and occasionally saying positive things about Konami.

Mark Coppock is a Los Angeles-based writer who explores how technology makes us more productive in our professional and personal lives.

Matthew Berry has been an enjoyer of all types of video games ever since he picked up an Atari 2600 joystick for the first time over 30 years ago.

Meg Eden Kuyatt is an instructor and writer. Her most recent book is “Good Different” (Scholastic, 2023). When she isn’t writing, she’s probably playing Fire Emblem. Find her online at: https://linktr.ee/medenauthor and Twitter: @ConfusedNarwhal.

Robin is a game critic with a soft spot for cozy life sims, heartfelt queer stories, and giant robots. She is one-half of the Girl Mode podcast and spends more time making characters in RPGs than actually playing them.

Nia Cherry is a journalist, curator, and casualcore gamer. When not prepping for law school, she can be found playing The Sims 4, Sim City, or winning back-to-back games of Monopoly online. She can be found on Twitter: @aflylovesong and IG: @ronnia.

Samuel Tolbert is a passionate freelance gaming journalist, with experiences writing guides,  news, previews, reviews, and reports across outlets like Windows Central, Android Central, and Inverse.

​Wallace is a long-time PC gaming nerd that is slowly being pulled into the world of consoles. His genres of choice are fighting games, immersive open worlds, platformers, and turn-based strategy games.

Wren Romero is an art school dropout, fighting game scrub, incorrigible drifter, and the most corrupt jester in games journalism. You can find them on social media @CUIDAD