Author Profiles

Blake Merriam

Blake has five years of early experience in the gaming industry. Returning from a five year sabbatical working overseas in India, he is now the Community Manager at Social Games Today. Blake regularly contributes reviews of social games on the Facebook, iOS, and Android platforms when he is not busy writing pretentious reviews of Indian restaurants on Yelp. He has a Bachelors in International Business from San Francisco State University. You can follow him on Twitter at @pengopen .
Articles written by Blake Merriam:

Blake Merriam

Our next player of the week, Ozan Santemiz,  comes from the city of Fürth in southern Germany where he lives with his partner. He’s a sales representative for a Japanese eye care firm. Ozan is currently one of the highest ranked players in lolapps’ Ravenwood Fair. When he’s not playing social games, Ozan is a… read more

Some of you might be old enough (like me) to remember going to the local video store to rent VHS copies of the earliest UFC fights when the sport was still somewhat “underground” in the 90’s. How much has changed. Now Mixed Martial Arts have multiple leagues and are shown regularly on cable TV. The… read more

The Smurfs TV show originally aired from 1981-1989 on NBC, inspired by the work of a Belgian cartoonist. Since then, the series has been regularly shown on various cable networks and has had several toys, music CDs, and even an Ice Capade show added to the franchise. With this years summer movie about the mysterious… read more

Welcome to another edition of SGT’s Player of the Week. This week we interview Lisa Day Brant and Patricia Crews, two administrators for Animal Party Players, one of the most popular game communities for the new Animal Party game by Tribal Crossing and 6waves. The group started in mid June with only 10 members but… read more

Looking for a game where you can capture a cute Goth Bunny with bacon grown on a bush? Or build a nice Eggloo for your Geckos? We thought so and you’re in luck. A new game published by 6waves, Animal Party, allows you to do just that and more. While Animal Party has a lot… read more

We continue SGT’s “Player of the Week” series with our next guest, Trace Thaggard. Nearing completion of his liberal arts degree, Trace aspires to write for a living someday. While he does play games on Facebook such as Six Guns Galaxy, Trace is actually more a fan of text based MUDs (That’s Multi User Dungeon… read more

A cousin of mine is graduating from his university this summer and because he is also preparing to move into a new apartment soon, I thought a graduation present of some good kitchen knives would be nice. He cooks a lot, so I decided something from Williams & Sonoma would be appreciated. When I browsed… read more