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Douglass C. Perry (born December 28, 1965) is an American video game journalist known mostly for his 11-year span of work at IGN. Perry was recently the director of content at DailyRadar.com (2008-2009) and editorial director of GameTap.com (2007-2008). He is now a freelance journalist who runs the blog GameInsano.com. Perry was largely known as a founding editor at IGN, where he launched the first IGN channel, IGN64.com in August 1996.

IGN
Perry began his video game writing career as managing editor of Next Generation magazine Next Generation Magazine in fall 1994. He worked with Editor-in-Chief Neil West, Reviews Editor Trent Ward, and Features Editor Chris Charla. In August 1996 became Editor of N64.com.

After a year at N64.com, Perry went on to lead several of the most popular and successful sites at IGN.com. From 1997-2007 he ran IGNPSX, IGNPS2, IGNXBox, and IGNXBox360. During his 11-year tenure, he wrote news, previews, reviews, features, interviews, editorials, and strategy guides that helped to build IGN into a leading video game editorial site.

From 2005 to 2007, Perry's feature work included feature articles like "Fall 2006: Where's the Beef?" an editorial that gained widespread attention, "The Influence of Literature and Myth in Videogames," "For a few Dollars More," a satire forecasting the costs of DLC, and the editorial, "Madden NFL 06: Where Do You Stand?", criticizing EA's football video game monopoly. Perry wrote several pieces exposing new information about the Xbox 360 prior to Microsoft's Xbox 360 launch. The articles included "Enter the Beta," "Everything You Wanted to Know About the Xbox 2," Xbox Live in the Next Generation: Integration," "X05: Live in the Next Generation," and "Live in the Next Generation: The TrueSkill System."

During his tenure at IGN, Perry appeared on Spike TV's Game Head (discussing the 2006 console wars), G4, MTV (Gears of War multiplayer), the BBC News (on the PS2 launch), IGN Weekly, and GamerNation.

Perry announced his departure from IGN in April 13, 2007, in the article, "X360 Editor Doug Perry Says Goodbye." His exit was captured in IGN's Cubetoons Toons: Level 62 and in a story on GameDaily article entitled, "Media Exodus: IGN's Doug Perry, GameSpot's Curt Feldman, CNN's Chris Morris, 1UP's Luke Smith Depart."

GameTap
On April 13, 2007, Perry started the editorial portion of GameTap.com. Although GameTap's editorial site, GameTap/Read, puzzled message board critics, an experienced editorial team of journalists joined him, including Jason Allen, Curt Feldman, Dana Jongewaard, Thierry Nguyen, Wes Nihei, Jared Rea, Jon Robinson, and Giancarlo Varanini. Several of Perry's GameTap stories appeared on CNN, including " Mortal Kombat's creator: 'Dramatic' changes for game" and "GTA multiplayer lets you and 15 pals cause havoc." GameTap's Read section opened August 2, 2007, and abruptly closed May 28, 2008. GameTap executive Rick Sanchez announced on GameTap's forums the company was headed in a "new direction." Five months later, Turner sold GameTap to Metaboli.com.

DailyRadar
Perry worked at Future US on DailyRadar from August 2008 to March 2009. As part of the Blips/DailyRadar team, he launched 30-plus aggregation sites including GamerBlips, TechBlips, and SuperBlipsBrothers among others. He was laid off March 12, 2009, posting the "news" on his blog. Perry currently posts on GameInsano.com.

Origin
Douglass Charles Perry was born in Santa Monica, Ca. He attended Santa Barbara City College from 1985-1987 majoring in English and journalism. At SBCC, he was the sports editor of the award-winning Channels college newspaper. Perry transferred to the University of California at Berkeley in 1987 and graduated with a degree in English literature in 1989. He wrote for the Daily Californian newspaper while at Cal, and published poetry in The San Francisco Bay Guardian and The Berkeley Poetry Review.

Prior to his success in video game journalism, Perry was engaged in many aspects of publishing, editing and writing. In 1989, he was the copy editor for the Alameda Journal and interned at Pulitzer Prize-winning The Point Reyes Light in Northern California 1990. In 1988 Perry started LCPD Publications. He published three editions of the literary journal, Life Carrots Potatoes Death, and two editions of the literary magazine, Bandicoot, from 1988-1993. His poetry has been published in The SF Bay Guardian and The Berkeley Poetry Review. Perry is the nephew of Charles Perry, former staff editor of Rolling Stone Magazine, author of The History of the Haight-Ashbury, and contributing food critic to the Los Angeles Times.

Notes
"Fall 2006: Where's the Beef?" on IGN
"Fall 2006: Where's the Beef?" on Digg.com
"The Influence of Literature and Myth in Videogames"
"For a Few Dollars More"
"Madden NFL 06: Where Do You Stand?"
"Enter the Beta"
"Everything You Wanted to Know About the Xbox 2..."
"Xbox Live in the Next Generation: Integration"
"X05: Live in the Next Generation"
"X360 Editor Doug Perry Says Goodbye"
IGN's Cubetoons Toons: Level 62
"Media Exodus: IGN's Doug Perry, GameSpot's Curt Feldman, CNN's Chris Morris, 1UP's Luke Smith Depart."
Taking Out the Trash: Follow Up Edition
Mortal Kombat's creator: 'Dramatic' changes for game
GTA multiplayer lets you and 15 pals cause havoc
Gift finder 2007: Parents' guide to buying video games
GameTap Forums
GameTap New Direction
Turner Sells GameTap to Metaboli
Douglass Perry bio at Future
GameInsano.com

External Links
IGN.com
Edge-Online.com
GameTap.com
DailyRadar.com
CNN.com

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