Dan Amrich Biography
Dan Amrich is a writer, author, actor, singer, and social media expert from the United States. He is a content designer at Ubisoft and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.
Dan Amrich Age
Dan was born Daniel Edward Amrich on 5 February 1971, in Ewing Township, New Jersey, the United States of America. He is 52 years old as of February 2023.
Dan Amrich Education
He graduated from Ithaca College with a major in audio production and minor in writing.
Dan Amrich Married- Wife
Dan has been married to his wife Katrin Auch since 1995.
Dan Amrich Career
Amrich wrote for Harris Publications’ Country Guitar Magazine, Guitar World, and SLAM Magazine in the mid-1990s. He also served as an editor for Flux Magazine, led America Online’s Critics’ Choice’s video games section, and was the Editor in Chief of GameSport Magazine. He also contributed to Wired, Time Out New York, and NBA Inside Stuff, among other publications. Andy Eddy offered him the post of Executive Editor of Digital Diner, a Metropolis Publications’ internet lifestyle magazine startup, in 1996. Before the journal closed, only two issues were published. I started at GamePro as Dan Elektro and Bad Hare, two editorial aliases. He later became the features editor and wrote the reader letters column responses.
He also designed the GamePro Enigma metapuzzle for the March 2003 edition, as well as the GamePro Enigma II for the March 2004 issue. Before leaving the magazine, he wrote the book PlayStation 2 For Dummies. Amrich worked for several Future plc publications between 2003 and 2009. As Senior Editor, he assisted in the launch of GamesRadar’s US version in 2005 and appeared in multiple episodes of the site’s podcast TalkRadar, even after leaving the site. From 2006 to 2009, Amrich was Senior Editor at Official Xbox Magazine, where he authored features, reviews, the letter section, and a variety of other items for the magazine and its website, OXM Online. He was also the moderator of the Xbox.com OXM discussion forum.
Amrich departed Official Xbox Magazine to become Editor-in-Chief of World of Warcraft: The Official Magazine for the length of the first quarterly edition. In December 2009, he revealed his intention to leave journalism to seek a career in the video gaming industry. Dan was the weekly co-host of the Official Xbox Magazine podcast with Ryan McCaffrey before joining Activision. Amrich obtained a position with Activision in 2010 as Social Media Manager, with the title changed to Community Manager in 2012 until March 2014. He ran a community blog, conducted interviews with video game creators, spoke with the Activision community, and hosted the weekly One of Swords Podcast. He generally has two co-hosts, Katrin Auch and Hugh Sterbakov.
Amrich is a vocalist with two years of private opera singing training and numerous years of musical theater experience. He was a member of the San Francisco Bay Area 80s cover band Fast Times for five years before quitting to pursue personal musical interests. Palette-Swap Ninja, a musical duo starring Jude Kelley and Amrich, is the outcome of his departure. Their music consists of hilarious and modified renditions of popular singers such as Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bowling For Soup, Paul McCartney, and others. Amrich also sings, plays guitar, bass, and kazoo on one tune.in Palette-Swap Ninja published Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star Plans in May 2017, a full-length album parody of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Amrich’s acting credits include commercials and voice-over work. He’s been in a number of commercials, and his voice can be heard in The Sims: Bustin’ Out. Amrich also holds a lifetime membership in the International Jugglers’ Association.
Dan Amrich Books- Author
Amrich published Critical Path: How to Review Videogames for a Living in February 2012, with a foreword by Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski, who joked that possible titles could have been “Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here” or “For the Love of the Game.” The book, which was conceived shortly after Amrich left GamePro Magazine, is a handbook to videogame journalism that draws on Amrich’s 15 years of experience working on both sides of the business for demos and examples. The book, which was self-published, was widely marketed through the Laser Time podcast, hosted by former GamesRadar reporters, and is now available in print and electronically at Amazon.com.
Dan Amrich Net Worth
Amrich has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.