Rocco Botte
| Rocco Botte | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Rocco Botte December 20, 1983 San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Actor, writer, film director |
| Years active | 2003–present |
| Website | mega64 |
Rocco Botte (born December 20, 1983) is an American independent actor, director and comedian living in San Diego, California. He is best known for his work in Mega64, a web based comedy group founded in 2003. The group produces a self-titled series that has had three seasons released on DVD. ComplexGaming named Botte number 2 in a list of top 25 video game personalities you should know who aren't developers. In 2017, Botte won the A- List Acting Award from The Film Consortium San Diego.
Botte was born and raised in the San Diego, California area. He is from an Italian-American family. Botte attended West Hills High School where he joined the school's theater department and met his future co-workers Derrick Acosta and Shawn Chatfield. He set up his first website in the early 2000s that chronicled stupid instant messages he had been sent, hosted his pictures, videos and various opinions & information on the television series Power Rangers. He worked at a video store for a few years, which he did not enjoy. Botte is an avid toy collector, he often posts updates about his purchases on his personal YouTube channel.
On November 5, 2002 Botte wrote down a loose outline for what would become Mega64 during class. He eventually recruited friends Derrick Acosta and Shawn Chatfield to help create the show in 2003, which was intended to be released on public access television. Eventually, all episodes were released on DVD, published through Awful Video, the publishing arm of Something Awful in 2005. Subsequently seasons 2 and 3 of the show were released on DVD in 2006 and 2010 respectively. In early 2006 short skits from the series were uploaded to YouTube, usually featuring Botte or another member of Mega64 portraying a video game character causing chaos in a public setting. Several of these videos have gone on to garner millions of views.
With Mega64, he has produced videos for various websites including Penny Arcade, GameTrailers, and IGN. He has also created online ads for video game companies Ubisoft, The Behemoth, Armor Games and Perfect World Entertainment as well as television commercials for the online video game service GameTap. Mega64 were told by Kojima Productions to create the E3 announcement video for the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection. The following year they created a video for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Mega64 produced a video for Konami's 2013 pre-E3 show in which Botte impersonated the main character of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2. In 2014 Botte starred in the pre-E3 announcement video for Nintendo with Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime. Botte has also produced and starred in several videos for The Game Developers Conference throughout the years. Many of the videos produced for the conference feature important figures in the video game industry, including Gabe Newell, Ken Kutaragi, Yu Suzuki, Cliff Bleszinski and Hironobu Sakaguchi.
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