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Dave Hillyer - dhillyer@gamechronicles.com
Blu-Ray and Video Game Reviews Writer
Secret Identity: Sports & National Park photographer
Website Duties: Play and write about the latest games and Blu-Ray movies.
Age: 40-something
Acts: 30-something (forevermore)
Location: Lafayette, IN (not for long, hopefully)
First Game I Ever Played: Arcade: Sprint (1977 basic B&W 4 person car racing game) - PC: Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy text adventure - Console: Atari 2600 Combat.
Favorite Genre(s): Sports, Shooters, Classic Arcade, Racing
Current Favorites: Call of Duty Black Ops (xbox 360), NHL 12 (xbox 360), Ticket to Ride (iOS), NBA Jam (PS3), Gran Turismo 5 karting (PS3)
Looking forward to: NHL 13, FIFA 13, another Packers super bowl win, The Hobbit movies, iPhone5
Best Gaming Moment: turning my fingers to mush on Konami's Track & Field, watching my mom put the hurt on me in Atari 2600 Pac-Man, getting my dad addicted to Activision Kaboom!, and killing 4 terrorists with one RPG in COD4.
Spare Time: nature & sports photography, hiking, kayaks, day trips to National and State Parks, photo/video editing
What's Cool: 400mm f/2.8 Canon camera lens, Canon EOS 1D X 14 fps camera (for sports), Canon EOS 5D mark III 22 megapixel camera (for landscapes), shifter go-karts, English Premier League soccer, solar power, Blu-Ray movies, my ultra high power astronomy laser pointer, Four Four Two magazine, married life.
What's Not: Comcast, Major League Soccer, Comcast, Disney manufactured pop "stars", Comcast, having to wait a month for EA to fix their UEFA Euro 2012 DLC, Comcast, the never ending stream of expensive software upgrades whenever a new version of Windows hits the shelves... especially Adobe upgrades.
System Specs: Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop with Windows 7 Pro, Dell 5150 3GHz laptop (featuring a bonus smoking hot CPU and court ordered extended warranty!) running Ubuntu Linux, Dell 8300 3.2GHz desktop running Windows 7 Ultimate, 24" monitor, quad 500gb 10,000 RPM hard drives for video editing, three external 500gb backup hard drives, SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS, and theater/gaming rig including XBOX 360 (with Green Bay Packers faceplate), and Playstation 3 hooked into an Onkyo 7.1 THX Dolby Digital, DTS-ES surround system and Toshiba 1080p LCD HDTV with Slingbox HD Pro slinging live TV to my iPhone.
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