Who is AtomicGamer?
AtomicGamer is an independently owned and operated gaming site that serves up the latest news, files and articles covering all genres and platforms. We started off way back in January 1997 as TeleFragged and soon after launched our game file site 3DDownloads, but we brought all of it together under the AtomicGamer banner in 2006.
Meet the fine staff of AtomicGamer
Marvin Malkowski, Jr., Founder - When he is not training for his next triathlon, Marv maintains the systems for the ever growing AtomicGamer network. A former full-time developer, he always assists in the development of the AtomicGamer framework. Several network sites are run by him also including LiberatedGames, ToyBattle and LinuxGames.
Brian Malkowski, Founder - He said his name was Brian, but we all know him as the Brain. Between his years-long plan of creating the world's biggest M&M, eating Silly Putty and his side job as a valet at a local Motel 6, Brain also enjoys programming in C, C++, C#, D, Java, Scala, Python, PHP. Brain does not enjoy programming in Ruby.
Paul Magyar, Founder - Paul is our business manager and resident gray hair. A serious PC gamer since his addiction to Doom, he now enjoys WoW in addition to the latest new hotness. In his spare time he races his 1995 Subaru Impreza in SCCA Autox StreetMod and NASA Time Trials in TTS.
Jeff Buckland, Editor-in-Chief - beyond doing the miscellaneous functions that help keep the site running, Jeff travels often and writes articles covering all the new games that he can get his hands on. He lives in Texas with his wife and four very stupid but lovable pets, and is an avid fan of movies, games, music, and just about everything related to pop culture.
Ryan McNeil, Content Manager - Ryan is an old Quake-head. As such, he is deathly afraid of WoW, and has vowed never to touch the stuff. After finally moving out of his parents' basement, he spent several years re-enacting "Office Space", only to finally end up here on AtomicGamer managing and maintaining the mirrors and media. His nightly distractions include making a nuisance of himself in online chat, watching his "stories" on Hulu, and interpretive dance to industrial music.
Joe Dodson, News Editor - Joe has been a writer and editor in the video game industry for the last ten years. In order to stay young, he routinely team kills, griefs, and screams obscenities at people on Xbox Live while playing on his girlfriend's account. He also writes news, which he loves, because it isn't old. Just like him.
Matt Cabral, Freelance Writer - Matt got his start in the industry as a Quality Assurance Analyst (fancy name for a game tester.) Despite logging thousands of bugs on multiple games, he never once got to utter the phrase "We just finished level 3, and need to tighten up the graphics a little bit." After two years in the test pit--where he enjoyed a steady diet of free pizza and Red Bull--he longed to write something more insightful than "This guy's gun clips through this door.", so he landed an editorial job at Wizard Magazine covering games. Today, Matt covers the industry for multiple mainstream and enthusiast online and print outlets.
Neilie Johnson, Freelance Writer - Neilie's a regular contributor to AtomicGamer, supplying reviews, previews, features and event coverage. She's loved video games ever since she was knee-high to a Koopa and in the 80's was made famous among neighborhood kids by her parents' arcade business. After years in game development in the Bay Area, she now spends all of her time writing about the industry she loves.
Steve Haske, Freelance Writer - Steve is an award-winning game journalist whose work appears regularly in Play magazine and on several websites. When he isn't playing games for work, which is rare, Steve enjoys going to the movies, writing, reading and consuming just about any kind of media or study of media available. He hopes to one day get a chance to review a Vagrant Story remake and have a conversation with Hideo Kojima, but not at the same time.
