Owen Good is a recovering newspaperman and occasional standup comedian who joined Kotaku in April 2008 as its contributing editor for weekends, and is also the site's sports columnist.

He is a 1995 graduate of North Carolina State University and a 2000 graduate of The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. In previous assignments over a 10-year career in daily newspapering, he was the beat writer for matters as diverse as the U.S. Marine Corps, the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and the JonBenét Ramsey homicide. He and the Kotaku editor-in-chief Brian Crecente were colleagues at the Rocky Mountain News of Denver, Colo. from 2001 to 2004.

Good currently resides in Springfield, Ore.

With a team of writers located throughout the U.S. and in Japan and Australia, Kotaku currently has about 3.5 million readers who view more than 50 million pages a month.

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