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Nathaniel Berens
Staff Writer

Hi.

I'm 22. I recently graduated from the University of Michigan with a hugely profitable film degree, which is, of course, why I'm diving right back in and going back to school for a teaching certification for high school English. At heart, though, I'm a writer. I've got a few screenplays under my belt and I'm working on a novel. I'd also love (LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE) to write for games someday.

In my spare time, and pretty much all my other time, I play games - adventure games are dearest to my heart, but I love just about anything you can throw at me, except for RTS games, at which I am uniformly terrible. I'm a lifelong PC gamer, but most of my non-adventure gaming these days is on the PS3. I've been playing adventure games literally as long as I can remember, but really got into the genre in 1996 when my dad brought home a bargain bin copy of Sins of the Fathers (apparently not realizing that a game featuring a man hanging from a noose on the cover might not be the best choice for a nine-year old).

These days I've spent time going back through old classics that I missed the first time around rather than playing a lot of modern adventure games... but I suspect that's about to change.

Favorite Adventure Games: Grim Fandango, Curse of Monkey Island, Full Throttle, Gabriel Knight (series), Myst (series), The Last Express, A Mind Forever Voyaging, Photopia

Favorite Non-Adventure Games:
ICO, Shadow of the Colossus, Metal Gear Solid (series), Silent Hill (series), LittleBigPlanet, Half-Life 2

Nathaniel Berens's forum username is Citizen Arcane.


Recent articles by Nathaniel Berens
Adam's Venture: Episode 1 - The Search for the Lost Garden review
The brief search for Eden hits a few bumps along the way, but it can be fun to climb over and around them in this physical adventure.
by - October 23, 2009
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary review
Boldly going from ship battles to away missions can be a Trek fan's delight, but not everything about this hybrid adventure will leave players beaming.
by - September 18, 2009