Brandon is editor-in-chief of Game Developer magazine, and freelance game writer. He's made significant contributions to four titles thus far in the latter capacity, and so can deftly fake the idea that he knows what he is talking about.
He likes 2D fighters, scrolling shooters, tactics RPGs, 2D platformers that aren't garbage, 90% of everything on the pc engine, and horribly broken budget titles. If you make any of those, he will probably want to talk to you about it.