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Arin Hanson (also known by the online handle Egoraptor) is an American animator and voice actor from Burbank, California, best known for his Flash animation short series The Awesome Series. Hanson also performs as the co-host and one third of the video-game web comedy series Game Grumps, contributes regularly to Newgrounds, and served as a contestant on the third season of the Sony reality program The Tester. Hanson has also provided voices for the iOS survival horror game Minigore and the PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, and PlayStation Portable versions of the action role-playing game Marvel: Ultimate Alliance.

Metal Gear Awesome
Hanson's first major Flash animation was Metal Gear Awesome, an animation based on the Metal Gear Solid series. It was submitted to Newgrounds on February 23, 2006, and received several awards, including the Daily Feature on February 24, 2006, the Weekly Users' Choice on March 1, 2006, and the Review Crew Pick for 2006 Movie of the Year. As of March 15, 2013, the Flash animation on Newgrounds has received over 7,000,000 views and the video of the animation on Hanson's egoraptor YouTube channel has been viewed over 3,000,000 times. Newgrounds founder and webmaster Tom Fulp featured the animation in a blog post for G4TV's Attack of the Show! as one of the best Flash cartoons "in the entire Universe." David Hayter, the English voice of the main character of the Metal Gear Solid series, Solid Snake, was introduced to the animation during production of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and gave it his blessing during a 2008 Q&A panel.

In a 2011 interview, Hanson stated that it was Metal Gear Awesome's success that led to him to an animation position with MTV to produce similar animations for the network's online video game show The G-Hole.

Sequelitis
Another animation series Hanson is known for is Sequelitis, a web video series on YouTube in which a cartoon version of himself discusses the relationships between video game sequels and their predecessors. (The term "sequelitis" refers to the tendency of a well-received work to spawn many inferior sequels.) So far, Hanson's videos have taken critical looks at the Castlevania series and the Mega Man series. His Mega Man Classic vs. Mega Man X video is the most watched of the series, receiving nearly 6,000,000 views as of March 15, 2013.

The Tester
Casting for Season 3 of Sony's reality series The Tester began on August 4, 2011. On September 7, Hanson posted his audition video for the show on his YouTube channel. On October 4, PlayStation Network Executive Producer Kevin Furuichi posted the final 20 contenders for the twelve spots on The Tester's cast, one of which was Hanson. On October 20, he received the call to be a contestant on the show. During his time on The Tester, Hanson admitted to the show's judges that part of the reason for wanting to be on the show was to gain more fame for himself. This quickly singled him out by the judges as someone they would not want to be employed by Sony.

On Episode 3 of the show, as an homage to the Uncharted series of video games, the contestants were divided into teams and challenged to traverse an obstacle course and fire cantaloupe projectiles out of a slingshot at five designated targets. During the challenge, Hanson hits one of the targets with a cantaloupe and goes back through the course to get more ammunition. His team ends up losing. At the episode's elimination ceremony, the judges argue that Hanson should not have went back for ammo during the challenge and instead should have given advice on how to hit the targets. That position was used as the reasoning to eliminate him from the competition. The fan reaction to the reasoning behind the elimination was contentious. Hanson's teammate during the challenge, Will "Akilleez Might" Santiago (the eventual winner of Season 3), tweeted sympathy towards Hanson after the episode aired:

''@egoraptor I know..that shit sucked. I'm bummed they didn't show how many times you went back for ammo.. You were def MVP of the team!''

Game Grumps
Hanson's current major project is a web video collaboration with YouTube video game reviewer Jon "JonTron" Jafari called "Game Grumps," in which Hanson and Jafari play through various video games while "generally grumping about." As of March 15, 2013, they have over 700,000 subscribers. Their discussions do not always stay on the topic of the game being played. The games they play are donated to them by fans of the series; the fan(s) who sent them the game being played are credited by the Grumps at the start of the playthrough. Their videos have spawned many fan animations of moments from the series.

Voice work

 * Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (PS3/Wii/PSP) (2006): Dr. Bruce Banner
 * Gamer Tonight (2007): Richard Farkas, additional voices
 * Press Start (2007): Forest Guardian
 * Minigore (2009)
 * Death Rally (2011): John Gore
 * Sonic (fan film produced by Blue Core Studios) (2013): E-100 Battle Droid

Television

 * Attack of the Show! (2010)
 * The Tester (2012)

Web animation

 * The Awesome Series
 * Girlchan in Paradise
 * Lemon and Bill

Web series

 * Sequelitis
 * Game Grumps

Other works

 * The G-Hole: short creator