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Playboy's Miss October talks about gamer stereotypes and breaking into the game business

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Pamela Horton, who is Miss October in Playboy magazine, stands out among the magazine’s models because she’s one of the first to confess to being a hardcore gamer. She’s a die-hard World of Warcraft fan, plays a lot of League of Legends, and recently put 38 hours into beating Final Fantasy XIII-2. She got a “realm first herbalist” ranking and is playing the Mists of Pandaria expansion for Wow. While she could get plenty of gigs being a model for game characters, or as a “booth babe” at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) trade show, her real ambition is to design game characters.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. 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.