Fran Mirabella III

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name = Fran Mirabella III


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birth_date = birth date and age|1980|2|27
birth_place = Joliet, Illinois
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occupation = Video game journalist
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Francis Michael Mirabella III (born February 27, 1980) is an editor at IGN Entertainment, a division of News Corporation's Fox Interactive Media. He is currently the chief video producer, overseeing all video projects at IGN Entertainment.

Born in Joliet, Illinois, he was a computer engineering student at University of Cincinnati. Fran was a writer at the Dolphin Cove website, the predecessor to N-sider. In 2000, he left to join Matt Casamassina as co-editor of IGN64, IGN's Nintendo 64 section, and IGN Cube. He then moved on to head up IGN's Insider section. In 2005, he left that position to head up IGN's video division, which provides videos for the other sub-sections of the site. cite web
url=http://stars.ign.com/objects/966/966873_biography.html
title=Fran Mirabella III Biography
accessdate=2008-04-07
publisher=IGN Stars] cite web
url = http://blogs.ign.com/Fran-IGN/2006/01/20/5599/
title = Fran-IGN's Blog - In the Beginning...
date = January 20, 2006]

Fran became infamous on IGN's boards after his critical review of "". While the game was generally reviewed highly by many sites cite web
url = http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages4/516710.asp
title = "Mario Kart Double Dash!!" reviews
publisher = Game Rankings] , he gave it a 7.9 score (out of 10). This briefly led to the phrase "7.9'd" being used when something got rated lower than expected.

A popular nickname of his is "Frangoat," which was first used as a joke by Matt Casamassina in IGN's mailbag sectionscite web
url = http://cube.ign.com/mail/2003-03-11.html
title = GameCube Mailbag
publisher = IGN
date = March 11, 2003] , but was later used for him in the IGN webcomic, "Cubetoons". He is also imitated by many other editors, generally by snapping one's fingers, pointing them in a gun formation, and saying "Nice..." He currently lives in the South of Market district of San Francisco, California.

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* [http://blogs.ign.com/Fran-IGN/ Fran's Blog]