GIA announces new staff, focus

[04.26.99] » New contact page and dossiers available.

    The GIA is proud to formally announce two new staff members: Drew Cosner, formerly of RPGamer, and Ed McGlothlin, who's worked at many assorted gaming sites. Both will be helping the GIA with our upcoming coverage, and we'll hope you'll welcome them aboard.

    Drew Cosner has also spent many long hours studying photographs to perfectly capture exactly how each member of the GIA looks when they have dreams of starring in the Matrix sequel. Check out our new contact page and the revised dossiers, all with new staff art. Tres cool!

    Additionally, the GIA is shifting focus slightly. We've found that most of our readers absolutely love our comprehensive coverage of RPGs, but could care less about reading the latest and greatest on Super Tetris 64 2 4-player EX edition. To be honest, most puzzle games are just updates of previous year's hits -- Tetris, Puyo Puyo, Bomberman, Bust-a-Move, etc. The GIA finds it hard to find the motivation to cover these titles as well. From now on, puzzle game coverage will continue, but will be on a "need-to-know" basis. We won't bend ourselves over backwards to find the latest screenshots - that look just like last year's. However, when there is a new innovation in the genre, trust the GIA to let you know.

    Instead, we'll continue to bring you the most comprehensive RPG and strategy RPG coverage around. We'll bring you scoops on the title's you care about, and we'll take close looks at promising Japanese titles that deserve U.S. release. But we won't waste your time with coverage of games that have a snowball's chance in Hades of being picked up for U.S. release.

    Only now, the GIA will be formally expanding its coverage to adventure titles: games such as Soul Reaver: Legacy of Kain, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Dino Crisis, Blue Stinger, and more. These are the titles we and our readers are excited about, so they're the titles that we're going to cover. We feel that these titles are a natural fit to our current comprehensive RPG coverage, and we look forward to expanding the page's scope to include these great games.

    Great changes are afoot at the GIA ... stay tuned for further excitement!