Aaron Boulding is an American

United States

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 video game journalist

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. 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

ESPN

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. He makes regular appearances on the ESPNEWS

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 Hot List and ESPN2

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's First Take. Additionally, he writes The Easy Points blog on ESPN.com.

Boulding is also a freelance correspondent and has covered video game events for The Best Damn Sports Show Period

The Best Damn Sports Show Period

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, MTV2

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 and Electric Playground. He was a sideline reporter in the first televised Championship Gaming Series

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 competition, filmed in San Francisco and broadcast on DirecTV

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. 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”. In November 2007 he appeared on Spike TV

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’s “Game Head

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” discussing the Video Game Awards nominees.
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 - a popular videogame information site.
Prior to that, from 1997–98, he was a sports journalist at CNN

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Boulding was born on December 30, 1972. He was born in New York City

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 (Queens

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); his family moved to Maryland, Michigan and finally California before he was six years old. He grew up in Los Angeles

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, Oakland, and Santa Cruz

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. 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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