Dan Ackerman (born March 13, 1974) is a former radio
DJ turned technology and
video game journalist
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. Ackerman resides in New York City, and has written about video games and gadgets for publications including ''SPIN'', ''Blender'', ''WWE Magazine'', and ''The Hollywood Reporter''.
He has been editor-in-chief at
Micro Center since 2023, where he started a tech publication called ''Micro Center News''. He is also a regular TV
pundit
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on outlets such as G4TV, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and CNBC.
Before joining Micro Center, Ackerman was the senior editor of Gizmodo in 2023, and had a long career at CNET, from 2005 to 2023, where he co-hosted CNET's weekly Digital City and CNET Labcasts
video podcast
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. Before CNET, Ackerman was the editor-in-chief of Clubplanet.com from 2001 to 2005, and a senior editor at UGO.com from 1999 to 2001.
He has released four albums on the Helper Monkey Records label, including 2008's "Tales Out of Night School"
[ allmusic 'Tales out of Night School' Overview/ref> and 2012's "The Futurist". He also appeared on a web show called, "Play Value" along with his wife and other people in the video gaming industry. The show talked about the history of gaming such as "The Rise of Atari", or "The Death of The Arcade".
In August 2023, Ackerman had filed a copyright infringement suit against the ]Apple TV
Apple TV is a digital media player and a microconsole developed and marketed by Apple. It is a small piece of networking hardware that sends received media data such as video and audio to a TV or external display. Its media services include ...
2023 film ''Tetris
''Tetris'' () is a puzzle video game created in 1985 by Alexey Pajitnov, a Soviet software engineer. In ''Tetris'', falling tetromino shapes must be neatly sorted into a pile; once a horizontal line of the game board is filled in, it disa ...
'', for allegedly taking from his book ''The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World.''
References
External links
CNET profile pageDigital City Podcast
Dan Ackerman Official websiteOfficial website for Tales Out of Night School
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1974 births
Living people
American technology journalists
American male journalists
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