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Dan “Shoe” Hsu
Co-Founder
Shoe used to cover the gaming biz for Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM), 1UP.com, X-Play, CNN Headline News, Gamers.com, and more…but then realized he could write his own paychecks by owning his own company. Too bad: 1) “His own company” is a poor start-up with zero budget, and 2) co-founder Demian controls the Bitmob checkbook.
Demian Linn
Co-Founder
When Gran Turismo came out, Demian decided it was time to stop writing about cars and start writing about games. After a four-year tour at EGM he (temporarily) hung up his writin’ keyboard and moved over to 1UP.com’s video department and the 1UP Show. Then he bought the Bitmob.com URL from the Russian mafia, and here we are.
Greg Ford
Managing Editor
Videogames have been a part of Ford’s life ever since he realized his Commodore 64 could be used for more than just rudimentary word processing. And after more than six years at EGM, he’s now a pesky force on four podcasts — the Mobcast, Player One Podcast, Sports Anomaly, and Geekbox — which simply means he plays fewer games than when he actually had a job!
Michael Donahoe
Staff Writer/Producer
Michael has been blabbering about videogames since his college days when his professors thought he had no future getting paid writing dick jokes. Little did they know he’d soon be writing for Maxim Online, New York Daily News, and eventually his dream job, Electronic Gaming Monthly. But since people don’t read words on paper anymore, he’s since switched his work to this “Internet” thing everyone’s talking about.
Seanbaby
Contributor
Seanbaby is a high-caliber tabletop game for the 21st Century. He enjoys martial arts battles near fish tanks or above industrial liquid vats. Years of playing terrible games have made him immune to Care Bears, the ambassadors of caring and sharing. But try telling that to them. Favorite Genres: Double Dragon, Nerdfest Strategy, Gradius.
Crispin Boyer
Contributor
When he worked as EGM Senior Editor and 1UP Network Senior Executive Editor, Crispin Boyer was officially certified as the 47th most influential member of the games media. Now a professional layabout, part-time Tokyo drifter, and script editor of no less than one Nintendo DS role-playing game about women’s makeup, Crispin Boyer has been officially certified as the 46th most influential member of the games media.
Robert Ashley
Contributor
Formerly a high-flying freelancer for print publications like Electronic Gaming Monthly and Computer Gaming World, Robert now scrounges the wastelands of the Internet for food, shelter, and Twitter followers, occasionally turning out an episode of his overproduced Internet radio show, A Life Well Wasted (www.alifewellwasted.com). He also uses his audio production powers to make Bitmob.com’s weekly podcast: Mobcast.
Ryan Scott
Contributor
You may remember Ryan from such fine publications as Computer Gaming World, GMR, Games for Windows: The Official Magazine, Electronic Gaming Monthly, and 1UP.com. When he’s not getting his ass thoroughly kicked in Street Fighter or roaming the World of Warcraft, Ryan’s ranting about this and that on his weekly gaming/comics/TV podcast, The Geekbox.
Joe Rybicki
Contributor
Joe has been writing about videogames for a living since 1996. He worked for The Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine from its launch to its demise, whereupon he set out to walk the earth. He now writes about games and technology for a variety of publications, and writes about everything else at his personal blog: joerybicki.com. He lives near Cleveland, OH.
Andrew Fitch
Contributor
In this economy, you gotta find ways to keep yourself busy. Fitchy’s spent his newfound free time podcastin’, localizin’, and lady-findin’. Not necessarily in that order. Check him out on the Sports Anomaly and Geekbox podcasts, your favorite (?) Japanese simulation games, and blogging on Bitmob.com.
Jason Wilson
Contributor
Formerly the copy chief of the best damn publishing group in the enthusiast game press — the Ziff Davis Game Group — Jason Wilson’s somehow found himself shackled to the left-turn tyranny of NASCAR. Huh? Is he bitter? Find out in his Twitter ramblings.
David Hodgson
Contributor
David began his “career” in 1995, back when print was a viable business model, writing for magazines only the families of those involved have ever heard of. He did time at the part-fraternity, part-sanitarium GameFan, manhandled Gamers’ Republic, was instrumental in incite Videogaming’s death spiral, was briefly Dan Hsu’s boss at Gamers.com, and then banished the “failure curse,” writing over 70 guides for Zelda, Half-Life, Fallout 3, and…Akuji the Heartless.
Andrew “Cyberboy” Baran
Contributor
Baran was a longtime editor for the Sendai/Ziff Davis Publishing Group (1991-2001). He served as a member of EGM’s Review Crew, as well as lead writer for the Press Start, International, Next Wave, and Game Over sections. The writer of over 120 strategy guides for EGM2/Expert Gamer and holder of three gaming world records, Baron eats, sleeps, and breathes all things gaming related.
Bryan Stratton
Contributor
Stratton has written over 60 strategy guides for Prima and Brady, five years’ worth of storylines for THQ’s WWE games, 100 articles for GameSpy.com, a Random House book on how to get a job playing videogames for a living, and exactly one article for EGM. He and his fake mustache currently reside in Portland, OR. With a lady!!!
Rich McGrath
Developer
McGrath comes from GameTopius.com and is the man behind the curtain. Rich currently spends more time building web sites about games then playing, luckily it is all related.You can find Rich on twitter at twitter.com/gametopius
Karen Chu
Designer
Daydreamer and dinosaur-lover, Karen has been working in the videogame industry for the past five years figuring how to bring quality gaming content straight to you. She’s a purveyor of Japanese curry and wants to help all the unloved and mistreated pit bulls in the world. She has very serious opinions about Andrew Fitch’s hairstyle choices.
Jeff Buczek
Front-End Developer
Jeff fell into the videogame journalism world as a production monkey for 1UP.com, had a ton of fun, learned a bunch, and got out right before the party ended. He also twitters as a Bollywood superstar.