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| Born | Adam Donovan Sessler August 29, 1973 Berkeley, California |
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| Other names | The Sess, Adam "Sexxler", His Royal Sessness, The Sizzla |
| Occupation | Host and Senior Segment Producer |
| Employer | G4TV |
| Known for | Hosting X-Play |
Adam Donovan Sessler (born August 29, 1973) is co-host on the show X-Play on G4 (formerly TechTV) with Morgan Webb and as of December 17, 2008 editor-in-chief of G4's game content for the network .
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Background
Sessler was born in Berkeley, California.1 He graduated from El Cerrito High School in 1991 and is a graduate of UCLA with a bachelor's degree in English literature. He was previously a credit analyst for a multinational Fortune 500 financial institution in San Francisco, and an actor on the San Francisco public access television show Chip Weigh Magnet Down, which he also helped to make. Adam admits that he is grateful to no longer work for Fortune 500 companies (except for G4 owner Comcast), saying in The X-Play Insider's Guide to Gaming that he was "very sad" about the job. Sessler currently lives in Los Angeles, California, having moved from the former TechTV headquarters, which was located in San Francisco, California. Sessler is married.2
Some of Adam's known favorite game series are the Halo series for its first-person shooter qualities, the Japanese version of Rez for its Trance Vibrator feature, the Banjo-Kazooie, Rayman, Ratchet and Clank, and Sly Cooper series for their unique platform qualities, and the Kingdom Hearts series, as stated on an episode of Attack of the Show!. His favorite Video game is Ghosts 'n Goblins, which he has stated on several occasions on older episodes of Extended Play and X-Play.
Sessler has a younger brother named Jonathan who appeared as Adam 2.0 (in X-Play's 2005 April Fool's Day Episode), a "clone" of Adam who claims he's much better-looking than the original Adam with a "special USB port" (a reference to the Game Boy Advance SP succeeding the original Game Boy Advance).
Career
Sessler is the only original personality from ZDTV remaining on the network, surviving the network's progression from ZDTV (1998-2001) to TechTV (2001-2004), and subsequent transition to G4. Sessler is one of only six TechTV personalities, including Morgan Webb, Sarah Lane, Kevin Rose, Chi-Lan Lieu, and Brendan Moran, to survive the massive layoffs resulting from the May 2004 merger of G4 and TechTV, though now he and Webb are the only two of those six hosts still on G4 today.
In addition to co-hosting X-Play, Sessler also appears semi-regularly on Attack of the Show! as a video game correspondent.
On April 1, 2005, Sessler confused many by announcing he was leaving X-Play to host a late night talk show on G4 entitled Meet the Sess. A trailer of the new show aired on X-Play, showing Sessler verbally and physically abusing his guests until they released information about upcoming video games. Despite being extremely over-the-top and obviously fake, many viewers began flooding the G4 forums asking when the show would air and if Sessler was really leaving X-Play. Sessler has since publicly announced on several occasions that the show was in fact an April Fool's Day joke. But he does have a segment called "Sessler's Soapbox" and "Adam vs. Adam" where he discusses video game politics.
In 2005, a man posing as Sessler made the web-site adamsessler.com. The man fooled several web users into believing he was Sessler by answering questions regarding Morgan Webb and his opinion of video games. G4 ordered a cease and desist of the website's identity theft of Sessler. In response, the man responsible for the web-site has removed most information relating to Sessler and converted it to a personal blog.citation needed
References
- ^ "X-Play hosts G4tv.com", G4tv.com, January 25, 2007
- ^ http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/690345/Sesslers_Soapbox_Gateway_Gaming.html Sessler's Soapbox
External links
- XPlay Hosts: Adam Sessler
- The X-Play Insider's Guide to Gaming
- AOTS Blog: Jack Thompson vs Adam Sessler
- Adam Sessler at the Internet Movie Database
- Orland, Kyle (2006-10-17). "Gaming's Top 50 Journalists". Next Generation. Retrieved on 2007-01-02.
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- This page was last modified on 17 December 2008, at 23:11.
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