About Bryan
Bryan Stratton has been a professional nerd for the last ten years, with more than a decade of previous amateur geekdom to his credit. Raised in a Barre, VT comic book shop, he was adopted by a small mob of miscreants who indoctrinated him into the ways of Dungeons & Dragons and heavy metal.
Upon graduating from Middlebury College in 1998, Bryan moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he leveraged his classical liberal arts education into a job where he interviewed rock stars about video games. After burning through $23 million in 13 months, his employer laid everyone off, and Bryan wound up at another video game website as a multimedia producer, where he managed to get himself laid off in half the time, beating his previous record by a full seven months.
Since then, Bryan has lived the highly overrated life of a freelance writer, authoring more than 60 video game strategy guide, a Random House-published book on finding a career in video games, 5 years’ worth of storylines and scripts for THQ’s WWE video games and over 150 articles on a variety of subjects, from game reviews to a ranking of all of the mini-golf courses in Vermont. He’s worked with just about every major video game company in the world, including Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, Electronic Arts, Activision Blizzard, Square-Enix, id Software, THQ, Capcom, Sega and Cyan Worlds.
In his life, Bryan has been in two bands (one real, the other imaginary) and has obsessively amassed a collection of some 25,000 songs, 99% of which were purchased legally on CD. If you are 18 years of age or younger, ask your parents what the second half of that sentence means. He’s also a diehard Red Sox fan, because apparently he was a very bad person in a previous life.
Bryan lives in Portland, OR with his iPhone, his girlfriend Sara and their two cats. He doesn’t generally like writing about himself in the third person, but he thought his bio sounded a bit too self-congratulatory with a first-person narrator.
You should definitely think about hiring him, because he’s pretty smart and very hard-working and would like to experience the simple pleasures of having cool people to work with and a regular paycheck—even if that means he has to get up early five out of every seven days and put on pants before he comes into work.
