Joshua Davis

Joshua Davis

Position

Game Director

Department

Management

Joshua "Josh" Davis, also known by his handle Grouch, is the Game Director on Guild Wars 2 at ArenaNet. His previous roles included Associate Global Brand Manager and Competitive Events Manager. Josh was primarily involved in the Structured PvP side of Guild Wars 2. He administrated official Guild Wars 2 sPvP tournaments, often co-casted the livestreams of the tournaments on the official Guild Wars 2 Twitch channel, and hosted the PvP-oriented biweekly livestream show Ready Up.

Even before joining ArenaNet, Josh was a major part of the Guild Wars 2 sPvP community. He hosted Guild Wars 2 Guru's monthly PvP podcast State of the Game. He was also one of the inaugural shoutcasters in the Authorized Shoutcaster Program.

Grouch left ArenaNet on December 2 2016, but returned to the studio on March 2021 as the head of Live Operations and became the Game Director on December 2021.

Jobs

ArenaNet

• Game Director
  • December 2021 – Present
• Head of Live Operations
  • March 2021 – December 2021
• Global Brand Manager / Feature Team Product OwnerGlobal Brand Manager / Feature Team Product Owner
  • July 2013 – December 2016

Trivia

• PvP programmer Justin O'Dell revealed that Josh's matchmaking rating (MMR) was in the top 2 percentile as of February 6, 2015.

External links

• ArenaNet Studio Update: The Future of Guild Wars 2, GuildWars2.com
• The future of Guild Wars 2: ArenaNet announces return of Season 1, and teases next expansion, PCGamer.com