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Libe Goad

Editor-in-Chief / Email
Video game veteran Libe Goad has been covering the electronic entertainment industry for nearly a decade, serving stints at Ziff-Davis Media, TheGlobe.com and infamous dotcom flameout Kozmo.com. Libe's written for, or been quoted in, outlets including Blender, Bust, Rolling Stone, MTV and the New York Times, and she's a regular TV talking head on networks including CNN, CNBC, G4 and Spike TV.

Today, as Editor-in-Chief of GameDaily (formerly AOL Video Games) and PlaySavvy.com, she directs the content at one of the biggest video game sites on the Web, from news and reviews to features and interviews.

Way back in the mists of time we call, "the '90s," Libe was the Managing Editor of a family of booze industry magazines, and co-founded the groundbreaking women's gaming Web site GameGal.com.

Libe's favorite gaming moments include eBaying review copies of games in order to attend E3 in 2002, finishing the Halo 3 campaign in one awesome Saturday and finally getting Seaman to talk ... right before he kicked the bucket.

Top 3 Games: Gears of War 2, Fallout 3, Peggle Nights

John Benyamine

Senior Product Manager / Email
John is the former Editorial Director of GameDaily (until early 2006) but decided he'd be able to play more games if he stopped writing about them. John is now the guy backstage, helping put together the lovely sites that make up the GameDaily network, including Big Download, Wow.com and PlaySavvy.

His favorite gaming-related memories include going to E3 for the first time (underage, along with several other underaged staffers), winning a TurboDuo at the EGM Super Tour against guys twice his age, getting a copy of Super Mario Bros. 3 before it came out thanks to a neighbor who worked at Toys 'R' Us, and the first day he was able to tell his folks he was getting a paycheck from doing this kind of work.

Top 3 Games: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Rez, Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga

Chris Buffa

Senior Editor / Email
Chris Buffa's rise to superstardom happened by chance. In October 2002, he began writing for Gamerfeed.com as a way to relieve stress during college. Little did he know that two years later, GameDaily would hire him full time. Since that historic moment, he's spent four plus years of his life traveling the country, playing games, meeting people and assaulting readers with list articles. He's a former hardcore gamer that stopped collecting junk and playing Japanese role-playing games because doing both are a waste of time. Instead, he prefers to kill things in first person shooters, obsess over iPhone games and watch sports. He loves free chips and salsa, popcorn, going to the movies, grouping things into top 25s and making you happy.

Top 3 Games: Resident Evil Remake (GameCube), Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2, Streets of Rage 2

Micheal Mullen

Managing Editor / Email
After playing Combat at his uncle's house, Micheal fell in love with games. From classic Atari 2600 games, the wicked awesome Vectrix to modern consoles, he started his role in the video game industry about 13 years ago by writing for Ziff-Davis Interactive, Computer Gaming World, GameSpot and Electronic Arts. He's been seen on TechTV, BBC, speaking French on CBC and a local Fox TV affiliate. One day, he vows to learn at least one useful computer language, which he will use to create Alpha Centauri 2 (since no one else can figure out how to get it done).

Top 3 Games: Alpha Centauri, Burnout Revenge (I actually wrote the game's tagline, "Battle Racing Ignited"), Ultima Underworld

Robin Yang

Assistant Editor / Email
Papa Yang had two daughters. One of them was coaxed into sports; this one was coaxed into video games. The games Robin has played over the years range from Mario Teaches Typing to Power Pete, Pokemon to Goldeneye, Call of Duty to Geometry Wars, Halo to Peggle. Around GameDaily, she likes making lists and creating content. Current gaming addictions tend towards the bloody-killy-shooter-faster-bigger-guns types.

Top 3 Games: Starfox 64, Geometry Wars, Call of Duty 4

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