24 Facts About Dan Amrich

Daniel Edward Amrich was born on 5 February 1971 and is an American writer, author, actor, musician, and social media expert.

Dan Amrich graduated from Ithaca College with a major in audio production and minor in writing and became a professional journalist and critic with numerous video game and music magazines and websites.

Dan Amrich has worked for leading print and online journals including Flux Magazine, Wired, Time Out New York, and others.

Dan Amrich worked as an editor for Flux Magazine, ran the video games section of America Online's Critics' Choice, and was the Editor in Chief of GameSport Magazine.

Dan Amrich wrote freelance articles for Wired, Time Out New York, and NBA Inside Stuff, among others.

Dan Amrich eventually became the features editor, wrote the responses in the reader letters column, and was the main editorial moderator at GamePro.

Dan Amrich created the GamePro Enigma metapuzzle for the March 2003 issue, and the GamePro Enigma II for the March 2004 issue.

From 2003 to 2009, Dan Amrich worked at numerous Future plc publications.

Dan Amrich worked as Senior Editor at Official Xbox Magazine from 2006 to 2009, where he wrote features, reviews, the letter column, and various other articles for the magazine and its website, OXM Online.

Dan Amrich was the moderator of the OXM discussion forum on Xbox.

Dan Amrich left Official Xbox Magazine to take on the Editor-in-Chief role for the duration of World of Warcraft: The Official Magazine's first quarterly issue.

Dan Amrich announced in December 2009 that he would leave journalism to pursue an alternative career path in the video game industry.

In 2010, Dan Amrich accepted a position to join Activision as Social Media Manager, with a title change to Community Manager in 2012 until March 2014.

Dan Amrich maintained a community blog, published interviews with video game developers, discussed Activision with its community, and hosted the weekly One of Swords Podcast.

Dan Amrich usually alternated between two co-hosts, Katrin Auch and Hugh Sterbakov.

Dan Amrich usually had one interview per episode from someone working on a current Activision game.

In March 2014, Dan Amrich left Activision to work in the San Francisco Bay area for Ubisoft as the Community Developer for Studio SF.

Dan Amrich is a vocalist with two years spent in private opera singing training and several years of experience in musical theater.

Dan Amrich performed for five years with the San Francisco Bay Area 80s cover band, Fast Times, before leaving to pursue personal musical interests.

In February 2012, Dan Amrich released Critical Path: How To Review Videogames for a Living, which featured a foreword by Gears of War designer, Cliff Bleszinski, who joked that alternate titles could have been "Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here" or "For the Love of the Game".

Dan Amrich is a self-confessed "fanatic" of the 80s film franchise, Ghostbusters, and a "puzzle nerd".

Dan Amrich maintains one of the only sites devoted to Kit Williams and his elaborate, illustrated puzzle book, Masquerade.

Dan Amrich has appeared in numerous commercials, and his voice work appears in The Sims: Bustin' Out.

Dan Amrich is a life member of the International Jugglers' Association.