Name Douglass Perry | ||
Douglass C. Perry (born December 28, 1965) is an American video game journalist in online, print, and television media. He has reported on the game industry since 1994.
He began working as managing editor of Next Generation in fall 1994. Perry worked for IGN for 11 years, where he edited the first channel, N64.com in 1996, and was a founding editor. He was the editor-in-chief of IGN, and the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Xbox 360 sites.
He wrote 11 strategy guides from 1997-2002 for Brady Publishing including GoldenEye 007, Tomb Raider III, and Diddy Kong Racing.
He left IGN in April 2007 to become editorial director of GameTap with Turner Broadcasting. After leaving GameTap in 2008, he returned to Future Publishing and DailyRadar's aggregation site Daily Radar as director of content and community. In 2009 he freelanced for several publications including Edge, Gamasutra, VentureBeat, GameDaily, GamesRadar, What They Play, and wrote cover stories for PlayStation: The Official Magazine, Play, and helped re-launch EGM as the San Francisco Editor.
In 2010, Metacafe.com hired him to launch its new video game studio, where he recruited and signed content partners, created video features and wrote and produced Web TV shows “Pixelated” and “My Favorite Game.”
Perry is currently (2012) a freelance journalist and editor writing for Gamasutra, Kotaku, EGM, and Machinima.