Members
Meet the members of the network, in alphabetical order. (updated 12/15/11)
Alison Wright has been a gamer all of her life. She is passing on her love of gaming to her 2 young boys, even though her husband isn’t a gamer at all. Other than playing games and raising her boys she’s a blogger who loves to do reviews and giveaways.
I’m a huge fan of MMORPGs and RPGs and my oldest son loves to play on the Wii and Jumpstart on the PC. The whole family actually loves the Angry Birds on the iPad.
I am a SAHM of 3 busy girls. My Hubby works for PepsiCo as a Programmer so our home never wants for technology.:) As such, we all enjoy getting to play either alone or together on our Wii, on my daughter’s DSi or on the PC. I would have to say we love the Wii the best as it allows us to get some exercise while we can all play together.
I have a fun review and giveaway blog – 3Ps in a Pod – and my hubby and I love to review new and exciting games that are family appropriate like Mario Kart and Wii Fit Plus.
I’m the mom of a 6 year old daughter, and one new addition on the way. I work full-time and blog in my spare time. My daughter has grown up playing educational and entertaining games on consoles, PC, and handhelds, just like her Mama! I have a wonderful boyfriend who loves to play console games with us, making us a happy family of gamers. My current favorite games are The Sims 3 (PC), Mario Kart (Wii), and World of Warcraft (PC).
Angela @ Just An Army Wife And Just A Mommy
I am the wife to a Soldier and a mommy to 4. I homeschool my 2 oldest and my favorite room in my house is the Kitchen!! My children’s ages are 9 mths, 2 years, and 8 years old for the boys and 7 years old for the princess. I love computer games Diner Dash being one of my favorite as well as WoW (World of Warcraft) and games for the Wii, my favorite right now is a bowling game.
I’m a 30-something single mom of 3 (15, 13, and 10) living in Maryland. I love The Sims 3 for the PC but my kids are the true gamers. From Madden 2010 to Littlest Pet Shop, they love games!
My name’s Barb. I’m a SAHM (for three), a wife to a wonderful man who supports my every whim and a full-time Blogger. I am so excited to be a part of The Game Review Network and can’t wait to share my thoughts on some of the latest and Greatest games!!!
I am a 35 year old SAHM of 3 kids, with the age ranges of 12,9 and 3. My husband and I have loved video games since the age of Pong and Space Invaders! We have shared that love with our kids although they prefer to move and groove to the likes of Dance Central or Kinect Adventures.
Some of my current video game favorites include Civilization Revolution, Rock Band and Plants Vs Zombies!
Stay at home mom, full time college student. Mom of 3 ages 17 months, 6 years, and 12 years. Married for 14 years to a guy who is very knowledgeable about electronics, and he himself is going to college to and majoring in audio and video production. First console was an Atari way back in the 80′s. I’ve tried them all! Favorite all time game is Tomb Raider.
Motherhood…it’s a full of laughter and tears and surprises. It’s the most wonderful thing I’ve ever done. What started out as a way to chronicle my son’s first year of life has evolved into Rockin’ Mama. Because despite the fact that being a mom is the hardest thing I’ve ever done, it rocks! I’m a NICU nurse by day, blogger by night. My husband and I savor the warm Southern California sun. We love to travel…so much so that we spent 8 weeks backpacking Europe before moving to Edinburgh, Scotland where we found out I was pregnant with my son. I am a babywearing, co-sleeping, breastfeeding mama whose passions include health, fitness, and all things green. If I’m not running after my 2 year old son…or my husband…you can find me frequenting the local tea room, shopping, baking, or reading
I personally love the Wii and my favorite game is the Wii Fit!
I am a stay at home mom with two boys (3 and 18 months) and am married to a wonderful husband. I blog product reviews and giveaways at Mama’s Money Savers. I love everything Nintendo, especially the Wii. My favorite game is Super Paper Mario for the Wii.
Forget about being a “Supermom”…being a CEO is where it’s at! Chrissy is a happily-married, child-raising, semi-homemade cooking, country music-loving, amateur-writing, hypochondriac-thinking, wife & mom of two amazing kids {7 year old son & 4 year old daughter!} Her entire family loves gaming & are honored to be apart of the Game Reviewers Network!
I’m a product review writer and blogger with 3 blogs who also takes part in social media. I am a wife and mom of two daughters who are 12 years apart. One is an adult and one a tween. Both daughters are gamers.
My favorite game console is my iPhone. I like Tetris.
My daughter, Sammi, who is 11, likes the Wii and her favorite game right now is the New Super Mario Bros Wii.
I am a SAHM/WAHM of 4. I am an internet marketing, mommy blogging gal who loves to do product reviews and work on my traffic exchange for WAHMS. My family LOVES to play games and try to have a game night at least once a week including video, board and card games. We are currently hooked on Wii bowling and Wii tennis.
My name is Erin Lowmaster. I’m a huge gamer and so is my husband. I grew playing nintendo, super nintendo, game cube, n64, playstation, sega, 3d0, psp, as well as a few other gaming devices.
Right now my favorite console is the Wii. It’s the perfect system for any family, if you ask me. I enjoy personally playing all the great new releases as well as using points to purchase all my favorite classics!
Game on!
Erin is a mom of two boys and wife of a bodybuilding husband. When I am not at home, you’ll find me at the gym, preparing for a Figure Competition. My family loves the XBox 360 console. Our favorite games are Lego Batman, Lego Star Wars and Lego Indiana Jones.
Farrah @ Farrah’s Little Place
Hi! I’m a wife, mom of 3 kids, employed full time and student. We’re a family of 5 who love gaming, trying out new things, and reading in our spare time. My husband is an electrician by day and gamer by night (his favorites are hack n slash games & military war games). Our son who’s 9 has been turned into a heavy gamer with his dad and he enjoys the military & racing games. Our daughter is the typical tween who loves animal games along with Mario & sim like games. Our littlest one can be found on her leapster, gameboy, or VTech playing many fun games like Scooby Doo, Dora & Diego, Brats, and others. Me on the other hand love the Sim games, games like Cooking Mama, and exercise with my Wii. As a family we love Guitar Hero, the Mario games, and Wii sports.
Our favorite consoles? PS2 & PS3 for hubby & son, Wii & iTouch for girls and I most definitely.
Gina @ A Wrestling Addicted Mommy
I’m a 30 something married stay at home mom living in Ohio. I’m a music lover, and like my blog says; A Wrestling Addicted Mommy!
I tend to rotate around my favorite game and game systems depending on my mood. My favorite systems are both the Nintendo Wii and the XBox 360.
I’m a sahm of 2! My husband and son love to play war, shooter and action/adventure games like Call of Duty, Assasin’s Creed & Star Wars. My son hopes to go into the video game design field. My daughter and myself prefer more subdued gaming such as puzzle games, Mario Kart, Wii Fit, Just Dance and Harvest Moon among others. We love gaming both together and on our own and will try anything once!
Jen Is a work @ home mom of 3 that loves doing product reviews and giveaways on her blogs. She just started getting serious with gaming Last Christmas when she received the wii, which is the only system she has become addicted to. Her Kids have almost every game system you can think of including her husbands systems when he was younger! This Family is a die hard gamer! Her son Got his first system when he was 2 and he is 11 now!
Jennifer, the mom behind the Mom Spotted blog, is located in Western Ma. She has two boys, Johnny (10) & Gavin (5) and currently pregnant with Baby #3 due in March. She is happily married to her high school sweetheart. On Mom Spotted you’ll find a fun selection of recipes, family fun, product reviews, and more! She’s a Wilton Mom, Hoover Insider, Kolcraft Mom, and more. You can also find her on twitter @MomSpotted and Facebook as Jennifer MomSpotted.
Jenn of Momma D and Da Boyz is the SAHM of four sons ranging from age three to eleven. Add to that a husband who loves games and her house is constantly buzzing with the sounds of the Nintendo DSs or the Wii. Their favorite games include Mario Galaxy, De Blob and Just Dance. Although Jenn herself is still obsessed with Pikmin and Pikmin 2 with hopes that one day there will be a new one!
I am a married mother of 3 kids in each core age range; 17, 10 and 2 1/2 and we are a family of gamers. I ran a linkshell (clan) in Final Fantasy XI for 4 1/2 years and even hosted my members at many gatherings here in my hometown. I have to say that at this time my favorite full game console is the XBOX 360 and handheld is the DSi, although that is a heated debate among the other members of my family.
I am a SAHM to my 4 kids and love it. When not busy with the house, kids or my blog we love to play games. I currently love using my WII for working out although I do tend to favor my xbox 360 for actual games. My favorite game to play currently on the WII would be my EA sports active and on the xbox 360 is Call of Duty 2 Modern Warfare. We also have a couple DS’s and a PS3 but I can barely get near those for my husband and kids steal them all the time.
The Post-It Place is full of hard core gamers. From puzzles to 1st person shooter games…we cover them all. My personal favorite console is the Wii, my husbands is the PC, my sons is the XBox 360 and my daughters is probably the Wii. As you see we all like different genres and platforms.
We are a family of five living in paradise who love to play video games. Our favorite game is Animal Crossing for Wii and enjoy playing online with other family members around the island.
Karen @ 3 Garnets And 2 Sapphires
I am a wife to an avid gamer and mother to 3 young children. I have been blogging since March 2008. Although my site is pretty well-rounded, I am extremely excited to include more reviews of gaming products on my site. Currently, my favorite system would have to be the Wii. We only own a handful of games, but my favorite game thus far is “Party Pigs Farmyard Games”. It really keeps you moving and laughing all the way through.
Kimberly Ortiz @ Pretty Pink Momma
My name is Kimberly Ortiz and I am surrounded by boys on a daily basis so video games are part of the territory when raising boys. Or men, for that matter! My husband is an avid gamer and turned our boys into mini replicas of himself. I love video games too, but more of the sports or fighting related ones. We have a Wii, 2 DSi’s, a PS3, a PSP and we also love to download fun games to our blackberry’s. My personal favorites are the sports games for the Wii, mainly because we have so much fun as a family playing them together. I love sharing my fun finds on my blog, Pretty Pink Momma.
Lindsey @ Kindred Spirit Mommy
I’m a gamer mom, no doubt about it! I grew up with a Nintendo, Super Nintendo, and Nintendo 64, so I’m kind of loyal to my beloved Nintendo platforms and games. I love my Wii and regularly con my husband (a PS3 snob) into playing Tennis and MarioKart with me. I’m also sold on the Wii for fitness! EA Sports Active and EA Sports Active More Workouts are my absolute favorites.
Lisa’s love of video games started years ago with Atari and eventually the original Nintendo. Along with her first apartment she bought a N64. She has passed her love of video games on to all three of her boys who began playing on games from VTech or Leap Frog before they were 2. Now they’ve added DS, DSi and 3DS to their handheld gaming collection. And while Wii has been king for several years, this Nintendo loving family has recently added the Xbox 360 with Kinect to the game counsel options as well. (One dedicated 9 year old saved his pennies for the XBox 360. If that isn’t love of gaming, I don’t know what is.)
Although with all the gaming choices we have it may sound like we don’t do anything but play games. But as the boys are still young we monitor their game play closely and limit the time their are allowed. While I personally love puzzle type games (I still heart Tetris) I love games that allow us to play together and have fun family time, especially games that let us move while we play! And as a working mom who feels like she’s always running I love my iPad2 or my HTC phone and their apps for staying connected but also for entertaining the kids while we wait for soccer or baseball practice to be done.
I’m a mother of two, one boy and one girl. Each child was holding a game controller by the time they were 4 months old. So we are raising them to be gamers. My favorite game was Halo 3. I played it with my husband and we played it twice, once on medium and then again on hard. It was quite a bit of fun playing co op together. We love co-op games. I’m also a very logical person so I love playing word puzzle games and strategy games.
Realmsgamer.com is a site dedicated to games, gamers and gaming. Your host is Michael Vandegrift whose passion for gaming was born in 1978 when he learned to play Dungeons and Dragons. Since then his gaming journey has taken him far and wide with a dabbling in just about every aspect of the hobby. Along with his wife and three children he games everyday of his life and brings a great deal of experience to any game setting. Come have fun and game on!
We love games. Did I say that already? Not only do we have a Wii but we have two XBox360′s. And 2 DS’s. Why 2 360′s, you ask? The second is for the master bedroom for all the extra stuff it does – like streaming. We love computer games, too… we were on Doom when it was first released. (Yeah, we’re old.) And we were part of Asheron’s Call, a predecessor to World of Warcraft… which hubby and I also played. Oh yeah, we also have our old Nintendo (NES… the 1st one) set up for when we feel like going retro.
Who are we? Me… turning 40 in a few months. My husband who is a few years older than I am. My geek-in-training daughters who are 7 and 5. We play the Wii as a family and the kids are better than me at it!
My favorite game console (today) is the Wii. Don’t ask me what my favorite game is though because it changes constantly. I’m waiting for the old Coleco LadyBug game to come out for the Wii or XBox!
I am a mother, wife, and student. I have an amazing husband named Bryan who I’ve known since my early childhood, and our first date was rather geeky – online playing World of Warcraft. We have an amazing daughter named Zoey who learned how to play iPhone apps at 8 months old. I am a full time student studying to be a nurse. My favorite gaming console is most definitely the xBox 360, the competitions my husband and I get into while playing are the most hilarious moments I can ever recall. Asking me to pick a favorite game is very difficult, so I will just list a few… World of Warcraft, Modern Warfare, and any Final Fantasy (Although 7 was the best.)
I am a retired schoolteacher, mother of four and a grandmother of five. I love to play games on my Mac, especially puzzle and board games.
I am a SAHM of 3 children. My daughters are 18 and 14 and my son is 2 1/2.
My favorite game console has to be the Wii. There just seem to be more games available for this particular console that appeal to me. I love my Wii Fit, Wii Sport Resorts and games of that nature.
My husband and son favor the 360 the most and there isn’t a day that goes by that this gaming console isn’t turned on in our house. My son has recently been introduced to the Lego Indiana Jones 2 and feels that he has to play that every day! Hopefully we can expand on the Lego games for him since they are very age appropriate for him.
My husband on the other hand loves games such as Call of Duty, Halo 3 and Left 4 Dead 2. Those games are a challenge for him and he loves that especially playing live that it is different every time.
My 14 year old loves Wii but also really enjosy her Nintendo DS. She always has it handy and ready to pull out at any given moment that boredom may strike. Puzzle games and City Folk are a few that are currently being played.
My 18 year old hasn’t move past the traditional xbox. She really hasn’t played the Wii or the 360 that often and would rather play games on her computer than any gaming system. Sims has always been a favorite of hers.
I started blogging over a year ago and officially became “As They Grow Up” in December 2008. It has been an amazing experience and have been able to meet so many fantastic people!
As They Grow Up is a website that helps to inform readers of recent or upcoming products from moms to teens to the entire family. My goal is to help make life easier for parents by being about to read about available products at a site that they know they will get an honest opinion. I use a combination of media which consists of videos and photos to help personalize the reviews and articles. I feel that I do have a great loyal reader base and wonderful friends that have been established through my site.
Shanda @ The Parents With Style
I am a Mother of 3 who works full-time and blogs part-time. I started my blog in 2007 and have a wonderful following on my site www.TheParentswithstyle.com. We love to review products to give our readers the insight and knowledge before they buy. We have the Wii and the Wii Fit and absolutely love it.
Shasta @ Faithfully Frugal And Free
We are a military gaming family! We enjoy the our Wii because it has great family games. My boys love the DS because they can play it when we travel. Our favorite game is any Mario game! We have been known to have Mario marathon parties 
I’m 30-something wife to a wonderful husband since November 1999 and mother of a hurricane of a boy born in July 2005. In addition to being a mother and wife, I also work as an Accounts Receivables Manager doing the billing for 3 companies, sell Avon, and just recently finished my Associates degree with a concentration in Accounting/Computer Information Systems.
We currently have the Wii and play several games on it, including Wii Fit, Wii Fit Plus, Wii Resort, two JumpStart games, and several others.
I’m Sheri, AKA Sam, and I’m the blogger behind Kidsumers (a play on the word ‘consumers’). I am the Mom to 3 boys and 1 girl, and our family is unique because the kids range in age from 3 to 19! In fact, this year I sent my oldest son to college and my youngest son to Junior Kindergarten in the same week! We love games, especially the Kinect, and I often write about them on my blog.
With the exception of Frogger, Stacie Haight Connerty never really got into games until she had children. Then she sort of became obsessed. It started with buying a DS for brain games and then kind of blew up from there.
She now runs The Toy Bloggers with her 12 year old nephew where they review everything fun for kids ages 0-100.
Her family plays games on PC, Mac, Wii, Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Dsi and Nintendo 3D. Everyone plays Angry Birds but no one beats mama!
Stefany is a mom of many — 5 children already with another on the way! Between her, her husband, and her 5 children, there isn’t a single person in the family who doesn’t love gaming. Whether on the computer, the Nintendo Wii, X-Box 360, or their beloved DS, gaming occurs all the time! The 2 year old even knows how to use the Nintendo DSi! Stefany enjoys the Wii Fit most because she is a busy mom that likes to work out when she can! Stefany runs the blog ToBeThode where she (and her family) enjoy reviewing a number of products including games and apps.
Storm @ Confessions Of A Psychotic Housewife
Hi, my name is Storm, and I’m confessing: we’re gaming addicts! Seriously, I’m Storm, the Psychotic Housewife, wife to a great husband, and momma of one little girl. We have a lot of games and game consoles – we even have an original Nintendo, comes with games that we still play sometimes. My favorite console is the Wii, though I enjoy the PS3 too. My current game addiction is Super Mario Brothers on the Wii, though I’ll admit, I’m getting just excited as my husband is for God of War 3 to arrive in March.
I am a 30 somthing mom of a 7 year old daughter and a 30 somthing gamer, my husband! We love to play all lids of games.
Tammy @ Three Different Directions
Tammy is a homemaker, home educator, blogger and wife who loves to play video games, read, and watch movies (recently having become very excited over the extra content on Blu-ray!). When she is not educating, gaming, reading or watching movies at home, she’ll likely be doing them while traveling to an adventure spot with her family. She blogs primarily at www.threedifferentdirections.com about product reviews, and can even coerce her husband and 13 year old daughter to take on reviews if it involves gaming of some sort! Currently Tammy is loving the family Wii where she takes home the Turkey Prize in Wii Sports Bowling with fierce competition. When she isn’t swinging a nunchuck, she’s battling the Beasts of Northrend in World of Warcraft.
I’m a mother of two boys (three if you count the hubby). My favorite console is the Wii because it’s so interactive. I love Mario games and puzzle games. My youngest is 10 and has special needs, he adores the Wii, followed closely by the DS. My oldest is 14, he is amazing at most video games. His favorite console is the Xbox 360 and his favorite games are music and sports. RB’s favorite games are racing, fighting and some puzzles and he’ll play them anywhere he can.
Since we’ve got a team of reviewers of various ages and from all walks of life, I’d have to say that the answers of favorite game console and game would obviously vary from person to person. I think that right now, the favorite platform (at least THIS week) is PS3 because of it’s versatility.
