Team Ginx
Origin story: Whilst out returning a bunch of music videos Michiel stumbled across a computer arcade, wandering in, he became lost in a storm of flashing lights and electronic sounds – emerging many years later awakening at the then unfilled desk of the GINX C.E.O, so far no one has questioned his assuming control of the company.
Super power: Self combing hair
Home planet: …unsure, there were coffee shops and windmills involved
Nemesis: Theo Bakker, son, always at least 10 levels ahead
Favourite game: Angry Birds!!!!!
Favourite character: Experimenting with various ones in WoW
Favourite place to play games: Slyly on his iPad during board meetings
Origin story: Discovered By Ginx’s CEO stumbling across Shepherds Bush Green in nothing but his pants and a pair of comedy chicken feet, Will’s origins are currently unknown and has no memories of his life B.G. (before Ginx), apart from that one time he queued in the post office for nearly two hours to replace his tax disc. Unbelievable.
Super power: Mind control
Home planet: Romford
Nemesis: Ronald McDonald
Favourite game: Knightlore
Favourite character: Miner Willy
Favourite place to play games: KFC
Origin story: Neil, a Mild Mannered Video Game store clerk was paying his way through his Media course at university when he was caught in a blast of gamma rays emitting from some faulty pre-order gaming trinkets, staggering into the light he realised that by combining both videogames and television he may just be onto something...
Super power: Black belt in making playlists.
Home planet: Fife, Scotland – a planet unto itself.
Nemesis: My need to feed my ‘achievement point’ addiction
Favourite game: Mass Effect
Favourite character: Duke Nukem
Favourite place to play games: On the Sofa in my flat as my flatmate criticises my lame skills
Origin story: Born of a demi-god and a Viking warrior, Sam has been with Ginx for more years than the sun has been in the sky. Found on our doorstep within a NES case, Sam’s past is as mysterious as his thumbs of steel.
Super power: Can melt ice by looking at it…for a really long time…preferably in direct sunlight
Home planet: Aegis VII
Nemesis: Neil Dubtac, much like Magneto and Xavier, they are both best friends and deadliest enemies
Favourite game: Alpha Protocol (the virtual definition of charm) and Mass Effect 2 (epic)
Favourite character: Hope and Vanille…HAHAHAHAHAHA! It’s definitely Kratos
Favourite place to play games: Walking across the surface of the sun, playing co-op with Dr Manhattan
Origin story: An immortal and omnipotent manifestation of all prime universal forces. The nexus of all psionic energy which does, has, and ever will exist in all realities of the omniverse. Among the most feared beings in existence, it travelled the cosmos until Ginx harnessed its power and channelled it into reviewing video games.
Super power: Having the power to cut, shape and re-grow any part of the universe, as well as destroy it entirely - if someone in the office eats the last biscuit.
Home planet: Born of the void between states of being. At first a formless mass of energy, thousands of years ago it came to Earth and took the shape of a geeky Irish girl.
Nemesis: That age old enemy of creation - Monday mornings.
Favourite game: Impossible to pick one.
Favourite character: Cloud Strife, Gordon Freeman, Phoenix, Link.
Favourite place to play games: The Fortress of Solitude.
Origin story: After spending 5 years undercover investigating the illegal world of Bear Ice Hockey Luke was exposed to vast amounts of bear testosterone which for some reason allows him to turn into an eagle (this has never been properly explained).
Super power: Just said, I can turn into an eagle.
Home planet: Earth
Nemesis: B.I.H.F.L. (Bear Ice Hockey Fixing League)
Favourite game: NHL 11 (with bears)
Favourite character: Boris the Bear (number 1 Bear Ice Hockey player)
Favourite place to play games: The woods
Origin story: Max was the princess and appointed champion of the Amazon warrior women, who was forced to leave his homeland after that stupid Wonder Woman exposed his manly secret to the Amazonian tribal council!
Super power: Master of both male and female impersonation!
Home planet: Dudley-onia
Nemesis: Wonder Woman (Although Max claims she has the brain half the size of his. "That's science" he's been known to say)
Favourite game: Kerplunk
Favourite character: Rocksteady
Favourite place to play games: Amazon changing rooms
Origin story: Classified
Super power: Pull my finger
Home planet: Arboria
Nemesis: Charity people in tabards
Favourite game: Rock, paper, scissors
Favourite character: Snake... SNAAAKE!!!
Favourite place to play games: Offline
Origin story: Forged from an unholy alliance of Central European cultures to emerge fully formed in the cultural hotbed of Stoke on Trent, only to leave and never return except for Christmas and family reunions. Ran into Michiel after an absence of several years to discover they were destined to renew their previous partnership of pushing TV to the world.
Super power: Able to drink coffee at all times of the day… and night
Home planet: Er, can’t remember, not there very often
Nemesis: Flight delays
Favourite game: Anything that’s easy to play or involves a ball
Favourite character: The ones that win
Favourite place to play games: Seat 12F
