Greg Miller (Internet celebrity)
Greg Miller (born April 27, 1983) is an American Internet personality and former editor and video host of the entertainment website IGN. He is a co-founder and the CEO of Kinda Funny and previously a co-owner of the FCF Wild Aces Indoor Football Team. Personal life. Greg Miller grew up in the Chicago, Illinois suburb of Glen Ellyn. Growing up, he was very interested in video games and dreamed of writing for Electronic Gaming Monthly or GamePro magazines. He was the editor-in-chief of both of his high school's newspapers. In 2005 , Miller and graduated from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, where he earned a degree in journalism and wrote for the Columbia Missourian newspaper, becoming editor-in-chief Tom Warhover's go-to writer for video games content. Miller married his first wife while in college, but the couple divorced shortly after Miller joined IGN in 2008. In August 2012, Greg announced he had Hodgkin lymphoma. After chemotherapy his cancer has remained in remission, though he says his personality changed due to the disease. In May 2017, Miller married his second wife, Canadian Geneviève St-Onge. They have one  child. Miller was one of five partial owners of the FCF Wild Aces Indoor Football Team. Career. Miller started his career at the Columbia Tribune in 2005, after he was unable to find a job writing about video games. Instead, he had a beat reporting on tragedies that involved cold-calling bereaved family members, like the father of the victim of a fatal car crash. In 2006, he convinced the paper to give him his own column called "Game Over" to write about video games in addition to the difficult subject matter of his general assignments. Miller joined IGN in  2007. Miller was a frequent cast member and host on the IGN audio-video podcasts "Game Scoop!" and "Podcast Beyond". Miller gained popularity with IGN fans hosting a video show called "Up At Noon". Miller started his YouTube channel "GameOverGreggy" in 2012, and he and IGN co-worker Colin Moriarty were allowed to produce content as long as it wasn't about video games. In 2013, they rebranded the channel to "Kinda Funny", and produced a weekly show called "GameOverGreggy", alongside fellow IGN colleagues Nick Scarpino and Tim Gettys. In 2014, they started a patreon to fund their side project . Miller and his castmates left IGN on January 5, 2015 to found a company named after their YouTube channel. In 2017 and 2018, Miller hosted the D.I.C.E. Awards alongside Jessica Chobot. In 2021, he hosted E3, alongside Jacki Jing and Alex “Goldenboy” Mendez. Miller was named "Trending Gamer" at the 2015 The Game Awards and "Most Entertaining Online Personality" at the 2016 SXSW Gaming Awards. He was nominated for a Streamy Award in 2014 for Rooster Teeth's "The Gauntlet" in the category of best collaboration. In 2016, Miller provided the voice of Superboy in DC Universe Online. Miller's  affinity for Spider-Man was memorialized in an easter egg in the video game Spider-Man as "Shirtless Spider-Man". Miller has been a voice actor in numerous other video game titles, including LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 as Howard the Duck, Lego DC Super-Villains as Polka-Dot Man, Lego Marvel's Avengers as Aldrich Killian, and . In 2020, Miller was invited to co-author the story "Kill the Batman" from "The Joker 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular" #1 alongside Rogue One writer Gary Whitta.