Michael McWhertor is a video game journalist based in Los Angeles, California. He is currently the Senior Editor for video game news blog Kotaku.

Prior to joining Kotaku, McWhertor worked as a senior software developer at a Boston area S&P 500 technology company. He joined Kotaku in a freelance capacity in 2005, after writing for a number of video game blogs on a hobbyist basis. McWhertor became a full-time editor at Kotaku in 2006, ending nearly a decade of mind-numbing web development.

He co-founded Meat Bun in 2008, a video game inspired apparel and promotions company with customers and clients around the world.

His first video game was Williams' Make Trax, but it was Sega's Shinobi that deepened his appreciation of the video game medium.

McWhertor holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida. He lives in Los Angeles with hundreds of t-shirts and Japanese toys.

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.

Send an email to Michael McWhertor, the author of this post, at mike@kotaku.com.