Adam Sessler
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Adam Sessler during the Halo 3 launch in New York City. September 24, 2007.
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Adam Michael Sessler August 29, 1973 Berkeley, California |
| Occupation | Video Game Journalist |
| Employer | TheoryHead, Inc. |
| Known for | Former co-host/managing editor of X-Play, Former editor-in-chief and host for Rev3Games |
| Spouse(s) | Amber (m. 2004) |
Adam Michael Sessler (born August 29, 1973) is an American video game journalist, television personality and consultant. He is best known as the former co-host for the video game review series X-Play and the editor-in-chief for G4's video game section.. Upon his departure from G4 in April 2012, Sessler was its longest tenured television personality, having originally been hired by its predecessor ZDTV in 1998.
After his departure from G4, Sessler became the editor-in-chief and content producer for Rev3Games. He left video game journalism in 2014 to become the president for TheoryHead, a consultancy firm for entertainment and media.
Sessler was born in Berkeley, California. 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 ABN-AMRO 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, saying in The X-Play Insider's Guide to Gaming that he was "very sad" about the job. Sessler currently lives in San Francisco, California, with his wife Amber.
Some of Sessler's favorite game series' are the Halo series for its first-person shooter qualities; the Japanese version of Rez for its Trance Vibrator peripheral; the Banjo-Kazooie,Rayman,Ratchet & Clank, and Sly Cooper series for their unique platform qualities. In 2010, Sessler stated his top 5 games of the decade were, in order of release: Deus Ex, Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Shadow of the Colossus, Fable II, and Uncharted 2. He also stated that Uncharted 2 was his favorite single player experience of all time. In his review of BioShock Infinite, he stated that it is in the "rarefied company of titles like Half-Life 2 and Uncharted 2", intimating it to be a new personal favorite. Likewise, he has recently expressed affinity towards titles such as Gone Home,The Last of Us (calling it one of the finest games he's ever played), and L.A. Noire (referring to it as a "watershed moment in gaming").
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