Last week saw the addition of a new member to our family and again today yet another new member joins the Around the Controller Network.  While not quite as nice to look at as our last edition, and definitely has more facial hair, Ryan Williams is joining our family of bloggers (and hopefully in the future podcasters).  Ryan is the guy that is finally going to give Mark a run for his money on who has the highest GamerScore.  I tried to my hardest (with the help of Ryan) catch up to Mark, but realized that is a hopeless battle.  In the time I can amass 500 GamerScore points Mark will get 2000 more.  But hey at least I am not in last place like Charlie!  Ryan also plays his Nintendo DS, Sony PSP, Sony PS2, and tells me that he is eyeing that big shiny box called the PS3.  Ryan and I have played through Gears of War on Hardcore and Insane mode together.  I know first hand that Ryan is a Tiger Wood’s golf fan as he has handed me a good beating in that game more then once.  Currently we are working through Rainbow Six: Vegas together.  I am looking forward to reading Ryan’s thoughts about all that is going on in the world of gaming, and to quote Jennifer last week “Welcome to Geekdom!”

The Around the Controller Network family has another new member, Jennifer Baker.  Jennifer otherwise known as techkitten on twitter is going to give her thoughts and views on the gaming.  I am very excited to balance out all this Testosterone with a little Estrogen, and hear what the lady gamers of the world think about what is happening in the world of gaming.  Jennifer some how got her hands on the almost impossible to find Nintendo Wii so she will be letting us know what she thinks about the Wii, Wii Games, Virtual Console, and all that is Nintendo.  She also has an XBox version one and a Playstation 2 so I would bet she will chime in on some of those discussions also.  There is also talk about an XBox 360 in her future…..so some day we can all play on LIVE together.  And maybe if we are all really nice she will agree to join our Podcasts when we get them going.

Welcome Jennifer

We have a new writer and Podcaster joining the Around the Controller Network.  Mark Dell is joining the Live for Nintendo writers, he has done some independent blogging and game reviewing on some other sites.  But we were lucky enough to convince him to come to our site.  Judging from some of his past writing on the Internet I think he will bring allot to the Live for Nintendo blog and Podcast.  Mark is such a Nintendo fanboy he braved fifteen hours in the freezing Kansas winter to get himself a Nintendo Wii.  Mark also has Nintendo DS which he is way ahead of me in Pokemon Diamond, so I am hoping that with some begging and pleading he will trade me some cool Pokemon and help this Pokemon noob out.

Welcome Mark!