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Summary: Welcome back to The Game Informer Show! On today's show, to celebrate Game Informer's 300th issue and the magazine's ranking of the 300 greatest games of all time, we gathered a group of editors to run down and surprise each other with their personal top ten lists. You can see everybody else's picks by clicking here. It's not easy to whittle down a list of your favorite games of all time to just ten, but thankfully we're surrounded by co-workers eager to mock our choices for your entertainment. In the back half of this episode, we're honored to be joined by three game developers from Blizzard Entertainment! Senior casting and voice director Andrea Toyias, lead writer Justin Dye, and World of Warcraft's senior narrative designer Steve Danuser join the show to talk about their upcoming GDC panel on writing and recording voice over lines for their games. It's a fun chat, and I hope you enjoy the episode! You can watch the video below, subscribe and listen to the audio on iTunes or Google Play, or listen to episode 390 on SoundCloud. Also, be sure to send your questions to podcast@gameinformer.com for a chance to have them answered on the show and win a prize by becoming Email of the Week! Our thanks to the talented Super Marcato Bros. for The Game Informer Show's intro song. You can hear more of their original tunes and awesome video game music podcast at their website. To jump to a particular point in the discussion, check out the time stamps below... 5:20 - Jeff Cork's Yakuza 6 verdict 7:20 - Donkey Kong Country 11:05 - BioShock 14:05 - Rainbow Six Siege 16:30 - Perfect Dark 18:30 - Inside 21:10 - Final Fantasy Tactics 21:40 - Rock Band 3 26:40 - The Stanley Parable 28:45 - Halo: Combat Evolved 31:10 - Super Mario World 32:56 - Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Blacklist 36:40 - Frequency 38:40 - Super Mario Galaxy 42:00 - Diablo II 44:45 - Tony Hawk's American Wasteland 47:27 - Super Smash Bros. Melee 50:10 - Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty 53:00 - Secret of Mana 53:55 - Heat Signature 55:55 - Pokémon Silver 57:20 - Batman: Arkham Asylum 58:50 - Final Fantasy VI 1:00:10 - Rocket League 1:01:50 - Age of Mythology 1:04:10 - Shadow of the Colossus 1:06:50 - World of Warcraft 1:09:20 - The Last of Us 1:11:00 - Tetris 1:12:05 - Portal 2 1:13:50 - Chrono Trigger 1:14:50 - Spelunky 1:16:00 - Metal Gear Solid 1:17:30 - Mega Man X 1:18:50 - Bloodborne 1:20:25 - Tabletop Simulator 1:23:20 - Final Fantasy VII 1:24:00 - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 1:25:50 - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 1:27:15 - Hitman 1:30:00 - Community mail... 1:37:50 - Blizzard's Andrea Toyias, Justin Dye, and Steve Danuser on writing and recording game VO