Fran Mirabella III

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Francis Michael Mirabella III (born 1980) is an editor at IGN Entertainment. He is currently the chief video producer, overseeing all video projects at IGN Entertainment, a division of News Corporation's Fox Interactive Media.

Formerly a computer engineering student at University of Cincinnati, Fran was a writer at the Dolphin Cove website, the predecessor to N-sider. In 2000, he left to join Matt Casamassina as co-editor of IGN64, IGN's Nintendo 64 section, and IGN Cube. He then moved on to head up IGN's Insider section. In 2005, he left that position to head up IGN's video division, which provides videos for the other sub-sections of the site. ^[1]

Fran became infamous on IGN's boards after his critical review of Mario Kart: Double Dash!!. While the game was generally reviewed highly by many sites ^[2] , he gave it a 7.9 score (out of 10). This briefly led to the phrase "7.9'd" being used when something got rated lower than expected.

A popular nickname of his is "Frangoat," which was first used as a joke by Matt Casamassina in IGN's mailbag sections^[3], but was later used for him in the IGN webcomic, Cubetoons.

He currently lives in the Hayes Valley district of San Francisco.