About The Gamer's Gazette

Staff

• Bea Fontaine

  Founding Editor

  A comedy writer who took a games journalism gig as a 'temporary thing' six years ago and never left. Bea finds the funniest angle on everything and treats the entire industry like an improv scene she's been invited to 'yes-and.' She is constitutionally incapable of writing a straight news piece.

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  A comedy writer who took a games journalism gig as a 'temporary thing' six years ago and never left. Bea finds the funniest angle on everything and treats the entire industry like an improv scene she's been invited to 'yes-and.' She is constitutionally incapable of writing a straight news piece.

• Cass Morano

  Standards Correspondent

  Cass is a former esports commentator who burned out after casting her 500th identical League match and now channels that energy into covering competitive gaming's most absurd moments. She writes about esports the way a retired general writes about war — with authority, dark humor, and occasional thousand-yard stares.

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  Cass is a former esports commentator who burned out after casting her 500th identical League match and now channels that energy into covering competitive gaming's most absurd moments. She writes about esports the way a retired general writes about war — with authority, dark humor, and occasional thousand-yard stares.

• Dana Villanueva

  Civic Affairs Desk

  A former mobile game monetization designer who had a crisis of conscience and switched sides. Dana reverse-engineers every battle pass, loot box, and 'limited-time offer' to show readers exactly how they're being played. She writes with the guilt and precision of a reformed con artist.

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  A former mobile game monetization designer who had a crisis of conscience and switched sides. Dana reverse-engineers every battle pass, loot box, and 'limited-time offer' to show readers exactly how they're being played. She writes with the guilt and precision of a reformed con artist.

• Jordan Lisk

  Culture Columnist

  Jordan got into gaming at 27 when their partner left a Steam Deck on the couch and never came back for it. Now they cover games with the terrifying clarity of someone who didn't grow up marinating in industry nonsense. Their 'wait, is that normal?' questions have a habit of unraveling decades of accepted convention.

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  Jordan got into gaming at 27 when their partner left a Steam Deck on the couch and never came back for it. Now they cover games with the terrifying clarity of someone who didn't grow up marinating in industry nonsense. Their 'wait, is that normal?' questions have a habit of unraveling decades of accepted convention.

• Luz Maldonado

  Field Reporter

  Luz disagrees with you. Whatever you think about the game, the trend, the discourse — Luz has a meticulously argued opposing view ready before you finish your sentence. She covers the consensus and then methodically dismantles it, not out of spite but because she genuinely believes the first take is always the lazy one.

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  Luz disagrees with you. Whatever you think about the game, the trend, the discourse — Luz has a meticulously argued opposing view ready before you finish your sentence. She covers the consensus and then methodically dismantles it, not out of spite but because she genuinely believes the first take is always the lazy one.

• Marcus Reeves

  Letters Editor

  Former QA tester who spent three years filing bug reports that nobody read. Now he files them publicly. Marcus covers day-one patches, broken launches, and the eternal lie of 'it'll be fixed in post' with the specificity of someone who once wrote 47 tickets about the same clipping issue.

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  Former QA tester who spent three years filing bug reports that nobody read. Now he files them publicly. Marcus covers day-one patches, broken launches, and the eternal lie of 'it'll be fixed in post' with the specificity of someone who once wrote 47 tickets about the same clipping issue.

• Nikolai Burtsev

  Institutional Memory Desk

  A former history professor who realized he was spending more lecture time on the Civilization series than actual civilization. Nikolai chronicles the gaming industry's past with academic rigor and a thesis statement in every piece. He's the only writer at the Gazette with footnotes, and he's not sorry about it.

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  A former history professor who realized he was spending more lecture time on the Civilization series than actual civilization. Nikolai chronicles the gaming industry's past with academic rigor and a thesis statement in every piece. He's the only writer at the Gazette with footnotes, and he's not sorry about it.

• Priya Chakraborty

  Weekend Editor

  A data journalist who wandered into games coverage after her viral spreadsheet proved that AAA game budgets correlate with the number of towers you climb. Priya brings charts to arguments and wins. She covers industry trends, player behavior analytics, and the numerical absurdity lurking inside every open world.

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  A data journalist who wandered into games coverage after her viral spreadsheet proved that AAA game budgets correlate with the number of towers you climb. Priya brings charts to arguments and wins. She covers industry trends, player behavior analytics, and the numerical absurdity lurking inside every open world.

• Soren Ivarsson

  Public Records Fellow

  Soren is an architect who reviews open-world games the way he'd review a building — structurally. He wandered into games writing after a 4,000-word forum post about Skyrim's terrible urban planning went viral. He covers level design, open worlds, and map philosophy from a perspective no one asked for but everyone needed.

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  Soren is an architect who reviews open-world games the way he'd review a building — structurally. He wandered into games writing after a 4,000-word forum post about Skyrim's terrible urban planning went viral. He covers level design, open worlds, and map philosophy from a perspective no one asked for but everyone needed.

• Terrence Yoon

  Copy Chief

  Terrence has been playing games since the TurboGrafx-16 and has never once accepted that anything got better after 2004. He covers remasters, re-releases, and the industry's strip-mining of its own history with a protectiveness bordering on the parental. His reviews of modern games read like nature documentaries about invasive species.

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  Terrence has been playing games since the TurboGrafx-16 and has never once accepted that anything got better after 2004. He covers remasters, re-releases, and the industry's strip-mining of its own history with a protectiveness bordering on the parental. His reviews of modern games read like nature documentaries about invasive species.