Hot 20 2010: Veronica Belmont, Host of Tekzilla

Photography by John Lee

Veronica Belmont, 28
Host, Tekzilla

When Veronica Belmont—one of the most recognized technology personalities on the Internet—gives a thumbs-up, you listen. So take note: Her desert-island gadgets are the iPhone 4, the Kindle 2, and the MacBook Pro. Belmont is the host of Tekzilla, a weekly technology video podcast on Revision3.com and Qore, an online gaming magazine on the PS3 network. More than a million people follow her thoughts on gadgets and gaming on Twitter.

Belmont is proud of her nerd cred. “To be a geek is just to be really passionate and obsessed with something,” she says. “Some people are obsessed with fashion and makeup. I happen to be obsessed with World of Warcraft.” She looks innocent enough, but if she had it her way, she’d be blowing stuff up on Playstation a few hours a day (she once played for six consecutive hours). Her most frequent arguments with her boyfriend, former Engadget editor Ryan Block, are over video game platforms. “There’s a huge cultural divide in our house over the Xbox and Playstation 3.”

Belmont’s also a fixture at tech and gaming conferences around the world, including Dragon Con and Comic Con. It’s one of her favorite parts of the job. “The most rewarding thing is to talk to other people who are obsessed with gaming,” she says. “Growing up, I felt isolated. Now there are whole communities around it.” Belmont also hosts The Sword and the Laser, a sci-fiction literature podcast and book group. “When I need to unplug, I read,” she says. “Except I am probably reading on a Kindle.”

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By Anonymous (not verified) on April 28, 2011

...only 6 hours of consecutive gaming?

What about whole night long LAN parties? Obsessing for days on even the side quests in damned Final Fantasy 7 and only breaking for that four hour nap after a whole day?

Kindle doesn't count as nerd cred. >.> Everyone and their mom is winding up with one cause everyone's too lazy to bother buying the hard or paperback covered books.

Fact, I'm a 24 year old female gamer. I've got pictures from 1989 with my dad and me gaming, during the birth of home gaming.

6 hours is casual at best.

Knowing your specs is book smarts, and kudo's to having it especially for home choices. (PS3 clearly has the superior capabilities, but XBox takes the cake in selection and online).

Nerddome has become a fad. And it breaks my poor little heart.

By Anonymous (not verified) on January 06, 2011

WOW! Quite a road you've paved since I first met you as a 6 year old demanding of your mother: "when is that person leaving?"

You've made so many so proud. Keep up the good work. Beauty, Brains and Kindness: an unbeatable combination.

By Lauren D'Alessandro (not verified) on October 12, 2010

Techno-Geek Babe, I wish more women were like you...
Love the show you deserve this, your very sweet on air.

Thanks
/Joe

" Hey baby, it's not the face they remember it's the gams."

By JoeCool (not verified) on September 24, 2010

She's so Hot!!!!!!!!!!

By Anonymous (not verified) on September 24, 2010

Tech loving AND gorgeous? What's not to love?