I have immersed myself in the business of writing about video games since 1994, starting as the managing editor of Next Generation, EIC of five IGN channels, and later as a freelancer for Kotaku, EGM, VentureBeat, CNN, and more. Favorite all-time games: Limbo, BioShock, 80 Days, Sid Meier's Pirates!, Doom, Red Dead Redemption. When not playing games or parenting my daughter, I'm hiking through the forests of the John Muir Trail.