GameCrush inundated with male gamers who want to play games with hot gamer babes

GameCrush evidently hit home with its offer to let gamers “be a player” and pay to  play online games with attractive women.

The company’s web site was down for the past couple of days with a note that said it was trying to find more server capacity because of overwhelming demand for its service. The site claimed that more than 10,000 people tried to sign on in the first five minutes the site was open.

The service is set up so that a 10-minute “play date” session with a sexy model costs $6.60. You can play on Xbox Live and chat via video cam if you want. The service got considerable coverage in the press last week, as it fulfilled the age-old stereotype that gamers are dudes who can’t get dates.

Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.