Gamers Can Be Hot Too

Jessica Chobot is a writer on Zombie Studios' survival horror game Daylight. Previously she worked at IGN, hosting shows like Weekly Wood and Strategize while contributing at G4, Fuel TV, and other outlets. She gained fame for licking a PSP, which helped her land a job at IGN.

Prior to the moment which propelled her to stardom, she had initially worked for several years as an administrative assistant for a real estate agency and at EB Games before turning to modeling to support her gaming and anime habit. On launch day for the PSP, she picked up her unit on the way to a shoot, where the now infamous photo was taken. She jokingly sent it to a friend who worked in video game product placement, who encouraged her to send it to Kotaku. She did, but expected nothing of it. Kotaku posted it however, and was deluged by emails asking about her. Encouraged by the photo's success, she accepted an offer from the Kotaku's editor to write game reviews for a partner site.

Once working at IGN, Jessica's career took off. She moved from freelancer to regular host of IGN Weekly, landed regular guest spots on Maxim radio, served as game advisor on The Daily Habit, and served as a dating advice columnist on IGN babes channel. In addition, she has modeled for the J!NX female gamers clothing line and for a limited edition anime sculpture, and co-authored a sci-fi script with Tron creator Steve Lisberger. In 2012, she played a journalist named Diana Allers in Mass Effect 3. Controversy surrounded the role as Chobot also previewed the game at G4.

Fun facts:

- Chun Li is Jess' favorite character in gaming. She knows every move in Street Fighter 4, for that character.

- Was the model for Grand Theft Auto IV's cover girl.

- Chobot is a big fan of Wonder Woman and cites actress Lynda Carter (who played Wonder Woman in the 1976 TV series) as her idol. She also strikes a strong resemblance with the actress as pointed by fans.

Chloe Toy was born in May 24th 1994 and is from Harlow Essex, UK. She is mainly known as an adult actress and fetish model. Outside of her main line of work, Chloe is also an avid gamer, who occasionally streams on Twitch. She cites The Legend of Zelda as her favourite video game franchise.

Bobbi Starr (born April 6, 1983) is the stage name of an American former pornographic actress.

Starr identifies as a video gamer, and has noted Zork: Grand Inquisitor, Grim Fandango, and The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind as her favorite games.

Gemma Louise Atkinson (born 16 November 1984) is an English actress and former glamour model. She's a self-professed gamer, who grew up playing Shinobi and Sonic The Hedghog on the Sega Megadrive. When approached for the sexy role of Lt. Eva McKenna in the third instalment of the popular real-time strategy game series, Command and Conquer: Red Alert, Gemma simply found the offer too hard to resist.

Cassieopia is an adult and Webcam model who often streams her Fortnite sessions on Twitch.

Tania Miller is a professional fighting game player who competes in a variety of 2d fighters such as Street Fighter. She is an E. Honda specialist.

Aside from competing, Miller also hosts Super Turbo tournaments at Wednesday Night Fights on a weekly basis. Miller handles organizing duties between playing her own matches, and Yoo supports them while broadcasting the competitions to the world.

Miller has also dedicated her time to spreading the word of Super Turbo to the rest of the community. While most older players have fallen off, she’s found success in the more recent generations of fighting game players, introducing newcomers to the classics with significant other and fellow tournament organizer Eugene "eltrouble" Lin.

"The only reason Super Turbo tournaments are still around is because we base our model on attracting new people," Miller explained. "We didn’t even announce the tournament at Evo last year, but we still had to cap entrants based on how many people showed up. We keep adapting and trying to bring more new members into the fold; it’s about the next generation keeping this thing strong."

Tara Babcock (born: November 10, 1989 [age 29]) is an American YouTuber who grew up in Seattle, Washington she has two YouTube channels: Tara Babcock Games! her gaming channel and Tara Babcock Vlogs! her vlogging channel.

She was the only child of her parents Bob and Mary who were never married but raised her together. She grew up gaming and was a cheerleader. She then went to modelling school and in 2017 moved from Seattle to live in Vegas.

Tara created her channel on December 27, 2008 which focused on gaming and streams her gaming content on Twitch.

She also created a second channel which concerned vlogging and a third channel about beauty.

Dodger, also known as PressHeartToContinue (born 6 August 1987), is a friend of the Yogscast, a former part of the Polaris Network and is married to Sam Thorne, a former Yogscast member.

She is a YouTuber who has two main channels, PressHeartToContinue, her gaming channel, and DexterityBonus, her vlogging channel. She was also a regular host of many shows on the Polaris YouTube channel such as, The Daily Byte, Sort This!, and the Friend Zone.

On her main channel, PressHeartToContinue, Dodger uploads a variety of series, such as Gaming Newz, which she uploads every Sunday. She also does Let's Plays of various games, including dating sims like Hatoful Boyfriend and past streams of games like Dark Souls II, which Dodger uploads all throughout the week. On Fridays she alternates between uploading Welcome to the Fandom in which she discusses a certain piece of media and the fanbase (aka fandom) surrounding it, and Swords and Stitches, where she and her friend Aaron do DIY crafts from decorating mugs with Sharpie paint pens to building a customized table. She also has a series called 1-Cup in which she plays a game for one session, which are uploaded randomly.

Nicole Kopchak is an instagram model who currently works for boutinela. She was born in the state of New Jersey but now resides in Los Angeles. Fans can keep in touch of her through various social media sites such as Snapchat and Twitch where she often streams her Fortnite playthroughs.

The Black Swan actress has openly admitted to being obsessed with World of Warcraft. WoW consumed Mila Kunis' life so much she forced herself to retire from the MMO game. If Kunis was addicted, she’s since gotten everything under control. She’s reportedly put her Warcraft character to bed in favor of Call of Duty, a less time-consuming option.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen co-star Megan Fox isn't just about playing Guitar Hero. In an interview with What They Play, Megan talks girl games, the Super Nintendo, and potentially kicking your ass in Mortal Kombat.

"Anything Mortal Kombat. I have that down and I don't cheat. That game just works well with my brain. The way my brain fires signals works well with how that game works. And I'm just really good."

Megan apparently began playing back on the Super Nintendo, where she mastered Disney's Aladdin, which is an excellent choice of game names for a celebrity of drop. Nowadays, when she isn't kicking ass or tending her garden in Viva Pinata, Fox spends her time trying to play with her Wii, but it's hard.

"I'm totally a fan of the Wii, I'm just not good at it. I actually have a Wii Fit and it's actually a really hard workout. It's pretty interesting. I think it's amazing you can combine exercise and gaming. There really are games like Raving Rabbids and there are these little missions that you have to do where you run. You're running with your arms but I swear to God I was so out of breath after every time I completed a mission. It really gets your cardio workout and it's a video game, which sounds crazy. But I think that's amazing. I hope we keep heading in that direction."

Alanya aka Aruuu is a Turkish American video game streamer known in the FGC for her Tekken 7 and Soul Calibur 6 gameplay. She is also an unabashed weeaboo and moulds her lifestyle around Japanese culture.

Liz Katz (born 8 July 1988) is a cosplay model, Youtuber, photographer, gamer and former pornographic actress.

Liz Katz was raised in Randolph, NJ on video games, fantasy games, comic books, and science fiction movies. She had a brief stint in nude modeling as well as starring in several adult hardcore movies from 2007-2008 under the pseudonym Risi Simms. She returned to the adult industry in 2011 this time using her real name Liz Katz, mostly working as a self-professed "nerdy" model in anime, sci-fi and gaming circles.

She began cosplaying at the age of 14 and her passion for it continued all the way up to adulthood when she turned professional. Her youthful good looks and coquettish demeanour won her many admirers in the cosplay world. So much so she was voted as the top cosplayer at Wondercon 2012.

Bio from her website:

"I am a Feisty Little Cosplay Model, Writer, Photographer, Part Time Flake, Gamer, Nerd Girl, Professional Eccentric and Muse. I’m half Nerd from her father’s side and half mystical creature from my mother’s.

My passion for gaming began when I was all but a wee 2 year old lass, who sat on my father’s lap to reach the computer and play Dragon’s Lair and McGee games.

As someone who suffered from severe social anxiety in school I saw video games and card games as a release and escape. Rather than painting my nails or learning how to braid my hair, I would compete in Magic the Gathering, build theme parks in Roller Coaster Tycoon, save the world from mutant tentacles, battle Sephiroth, discover I was a child of Bhaal, traveled through various planes of existence to learn what can change the nature of a man, and trained Pokemon into the late hours of the night.

I was content in my virtual world and really didn’t have much of a social life as a child outside of my small group of friends. Back then there was no wireless multiplayer options so my parents connected all of our computers by long LAN cables we ran through the floor and through rooms to play Diablo. Even though my mom would make fun of games and call them “dorky” she too spent many, many hours kicking butt in the dungeons and catacombs."

Alanah Rachel Pearce (born August 24, 1993) is an Australian writer, producer, on-camera host, voice actress, gaming journalist and YouTuber currently serving as one of the main on-camera co-hosts, content producers and co-stars of the comedy, gaming and entertainment news YouTube channel Funhaus, a Los Angeles-based channel brand of Rooster Teeth. She is also recognized for her work at IGN, and on national radio and television in Australia. She also has her own self-titled YouTube channel where she streams gameplay, makes let's plays, and talks about video games. She resides in Los Angeles, CA.

Briana was born and raised in Orange County, California.

With many years of experience, Briana has found success in almost all worlds of performing. She worked with Andy Samberg in the movie Popstar, costarred on the spinoff of her favorite show growing up, Criminal Minds and has been seen in commercials for Acura, CreditKarma, Hyundai, and Cuff, which was featured on Good Morning America. She's won multiple awards for Best Actress as a lead in hit indie feature, Occupants. She dived into the deep end of voice acting as lead character Aerith Gainsborough in Final Fantasy VII Remake. She has an amazing talent agency, Aperture Talent.

All the while, Briana felt a calling towards creating her own content to encourage more diversity in storytelling with an emphasis on emotional intelligence and empathy. She created Strange Rebel Gaming on YouTube to mesh her love of performing with her passion for video games. Strange Rebel Gaming has rapidly grown to form a brand with a massive & loyal community following with social media presences on Twitch, Instagram and Twitter.

Alexandra "Alliestrasza" Macpherson is a Hearthstone player from the United States, currently playing for Fade 2 Karma.

Alliestrasza lives in San Diego and has been a Hearthstone streamer since she graduated college in 2015, earning a degree in Advertising and Public Relations. She has always had an interest in entertaining people and loves Hearthstone because it's based on strategy and outsmarting your opponent. Outside of streaming she likes to play Overwatch and PUBG with friends, do yoga and go to music festivals or concerts. She is also an avid supporter of cryptocurrency, so much so that she accepts donations in various coins. In 2017 she co-hosted the Value Town Podcast and in 2018 she hopes to expand from streaming and also become a competitive player.

Elz, better known online as Elz the Witch, is an English YouTuber known for her Sims videos. She has also uploaded the ocasional vlog.

Elz the Witch started gaming when she was 8, which people told her that she doesn't look like a gamer she started YouTube. She began posting gaming videos regularly to YouTube in December 2018. Elz has earned massive popularity for her Let's Plays and playthroughs with commentary for a variety of games, including The Sims and Fortnite. She has garnered more than 80,000 YouTube subscribers. She has also gained more than 50,000 followers to her elzthewitch Instagram account.

Elz favourite games are Final Fantasy 7, Zelda Ocarina of Time, GTA San Andreas and The Sims.

Jamie Lee Curtis, the actress from films such as Halloween and Freaky Friday is known to be a big fan of video games. She's cosplayed at conventions before and even attended the fighting game tournament Evo, dressed as a Street Fighter character. For her most recent expression of fandom, she appeared at the Warcraft movie premiere in full cosplay.

She even yelled "Leeroy Jenkins!" in a video she made with a fan.

It's likely you've heard the name before; Leeroy Jenkins has become an infamous Internet meme since it emerged back in 2005. World of Warcraft player Ben Schulz created the video in which a very bold and very dumb player sprints into a difficult battle alone, yelling the name as he caused everyone in his team to die.

Curtis has cosplayed World of Warcraft characters before, as she did at BlizzCon 2015. Her Evo 2015 cosplay was also notable, and she even played a Street Fighter match against her son at the tournament.

Imane Anys, better known as Pokimane, is a live-stream gaming broadcaster on Twitch. She is a member of OfflineTV, an online social entertainment group of internet content creators.

She was honoured the 2017 Shorty Award as the "Best Twitch Streamer of the Year." In 2018, she was selected as 1 of 15 individuals selected as Twitch Ambassadors for the annual TwitchCon event. She was also made a partner for their Twitch Creator Camp, a series of broadcasts and articles designed to assist content creators establish successful channels. In 2019, it was announced that she and and a number of other internet personalities were selected to appear in the film, Free Guy, which is to be released in May 2021. In 2020, Imane signed a multi-year exclusive deal with Twitch. In 2021, she was named one of Forbes 30 Under 30, under the "Games" category.