Aaron Boulding

Aaron Boulding is an American video game journalist. His work spans online, print and TV outlets, and he has been covering the gaming industry since 1998.

He is most well known as the Video Game Analyst on ESPN. He makes regular appearances on the ESPNEWS Hot List and ESPN2's First Take. Additionally, he writes The Easy Points blog on ESPN.com. [ [http://sports.espn.go.com/videogames/news/story?id=3129115 ESPN - Easy Points - 'Tis the Season - Videogames ] ]

Boulding is also a freelance correspondent and has covered video game events for The Best Damn Sports Show Period [ [http://games.ign.com/articles/703/703288p1.html IGN: Best Damn E3 Ever ] ] , MTV2 and Electric Playground. He was a sideline reporter in the first televised Championship Gaming Series competition, filmed in San Francisco and broadcast on DirecTV. [ [http://blogs.ign.com/Fran-IGN/2006/07/23/25882/p2 Fran-IGN's Blog - Championship Gaming Invitational: Behind the Scenes ] ] Boulding also makes appearances as an industry expert at live events and on television. At the 2006 Game Developers Conference he was a panel expert for a session titled “Loudness & Dynamic Range: From Theory to Reality”. [ [http://www.gametrailers.com/player/29196.html?pl=game Gametrailers.com - Game Head - The Top Games of 2007 ] ] In November 2007 he appeared on Spike TV’s “Game Head” discussing the Video Game Awards nominees. [ [http://www.gametrailers.com/player/29196.html?pl=game Gametrailers.com - Game Head - The Top Games of 2007 ] ] He also commentates on the Halo 3 MLG Pro Circuit alongside Chris Puckett and Sundance DiGiovanni.

Formerly Boulding was a Senior Editor at IGN.com - the web’s number one videogame information site. [ [http://corp.ign.com/ IGN Entertainment ] ] Prior to that, from 1997-98, he was a sports journalist at CNN.

Boulding was born on December 30, 1972. He was born in New York City (Queens); his family moved to Maryland, Michigan and finally California before he was six years old. He grew up in Los Angeles, Oakland, and Santa Cruz. Boulding attended UC Santa Barbara as an undergraduate, then later obtained a masters degree in journalism from UC Berkeley. He currently lives in San Francisco, California.

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