Adam Donovan Sessler (born August 29, 1973)[1] is an American video game journalist, television personality and consultant.
Sessler admitted that he was 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.
In 2010, Sessler stated his top five 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.
[15] 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.
[19] Sessler's favorite cabinet video game is Ghosts 'n Goblins, which he has stated on several occasions on older episodes of Extended Play and X-Play.
He stated: "When I was 9 years old I used to scam quarters from my parents and sneak out to this local bowling alley that was so seedy Hubert Selby Jr. would get the creeps there.
However, he had a podcast called Sessler's Soapbox[23] as well as Feedback, where he discussed various gaming topics with other G4 correspondents and guests until late 2011, when he was replaced by Blair Herter.
On June 19, 2015, he was featured as pre-show and post-show host of the Bethesda Game Studios E3 event alongside his past co-worker Morgan Webb.
In 2016, Sessler co-founded Spiketrap, an AI-based social media intelligence platform, with Kieran Fitzpatrick, who serves as its CEO.