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Danny Peña
| Occupation | Podcaster |
|---|---|
| Known For | Founder of Gamertag Radio |
| Accolades | 2015 Podcast Hall of Fame Inductee |
Also known as his online persona Godfree[1], Danny Peña is a Dominican podcaster of 20+ years who is also the founder and host of the award-winning video game podcast Gamertag Radio.[1] Peña is considered as a podcasting legend among his peers and the media with his pivotal influence within the gaming industry.[2]
Peña founded the video game podcast Gamertag Radio in February of 2005 and is currently still the host.[3] Peña's dedication later paid off when Gamertag Radio was added to Radio.com featuring the top podcasts of the time in 2015.[4] Peña was also inducted into the Podcast Hall of Fame in 2015, becoming the first Latino to do so.[4] in 2020, Gamertag radio became the first gaming podcast to reach over 1,000 episodes.[2] Today, the video game podcast has a total of over 1,400 episodes accumulating over 14 million listens across all platforms.[5] In April, 2018, Peña was named a nominee for the Best Technology or Gaming Content Creator at the 4th edition of Hispanicizes TECLA Awards.[4] Peña was also a heads up games editorial for G4TV[2] before its shutdown on November 18, 2022. Earlier that year, Danny Peña published a children's book titled Danny Loves Video Games which is rated a 4.13 out of 5 stars on Goodreads.[6]
Early Life
Danny Peña lived in New York for most of his childhood where he first developed his love for video games by playing at his local New York arcade.[2] He was gifted his first console - the Atari 2600 - by his grandmother in 1984.[7] Peña using his Atari 2600 console and others that he owned, created a gaming business in the city of San Francisco de Macoris, Dominican Republic where he would charge people to play video games on those consoles (Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis).[1] This would blossom him into the video game industry, where he would start his first radio show in 2001, before the launch of the award-winning Gamertag Radio podcast.[2]
Career
Danny Peña started his professional career as a video game podcaster in February, 2005, with the launch of the Gamertag Radio podcast which he founded and hosts.[1] The podcast since its launch uploads two episodes weekly full of breaking news, interviews, and reviews of almost everything related to video games.[3] In 2015, Gamertag Radio had achieved its first milestone as it was added to Radio.com, a then CBS Radio and CBS Local Digital Media owned website including some of the top podcasts.[4] That same year, Peña was also honored as the first Latino to be induced into the Podcast Hall of Fame.[4] His accolades didn't stop, as in 2018 he was nominated for the Best Technology or Gaming Content Creator at the 4th edition of Hispanicizes TECLA Awards and in June of the same year Gamertag Radio was chosen for Miami's Top 10 Podcasts by Miami New Times.[4][8] In September 2021, Peña and his podcast Gamertag Radio was featured on a Times Square billboard celebrating Dominican heritage as a partnership with Twitch. [7] In 2022, Peña published his first book, a children's book, titled Danny Loves Video Games.[2] In 2026, Danny Peña alongside Diana Manuel-Peña joined Mediawise's game streamer initiative.[5]
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