GameCrush's pitch. Gautam Gupta: Seeing the GameCrush pitch... Christina Brodbeck: So excited! @gamecrush wil... GameCrush Lets Guys Pay Money To Play Online Games With Women (Seriously) Meet GameCrush, a startup that manages to sound both ridiculous and very promising at once. The gist: take the millions of male gamers out there and offer to hook them up online with a gaming buddy of the opposite sex for a fee. Or, as founder Eric Strasser put it, “if you can buy a girl a drink in a sports bar, why not buy her a game online?” The site looks like the fusion of a social network, a casual gaming portal, and a porny cam site. But, as the founders make clear, this isn’t a place for porn — though there are photos of attractive women abound.
After signing up, a gamer (usually a male over the age of 18) browses the profiles of “PlayDates”, which is the term used to refer to the women on the site. Each profile includes the woman’s interests and commonly played games, and of course a gallery of photos are featured front-and-center. So what’s in it for the PlayDate? JS: Another reason to be a terrified mother of a teenager.
A: We heavily restricted. Mobile? GameCrush. GameCrush launches gaming service where guys pay girls to play. One of the most memorable concepts that I’ve seen on VentureBeat this year is GameCrush, a site where male gamers can pay women to play games with them. Today the site is leaving beta testing and launching a new version of its service. On the site, men connect with “PlayDates,” namely female gamers.
They play video games together on the site — right now there are seven or eight casual games, but the PlayDates can also share games on their own computers. They can also talk to each other using webcams. If that sounds like your idea of fun, pricing will start at 60 cents per minute, which will be split between GameCrush and the PlayDate. GameCrush said it was inundated with more than 10,000 sign-up requests in a single day when the site was unveiled in March. The company demonstrated on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield in San Francisco today.
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