Morgan Webb

Morgan Ailis Webb (born October 5, 1978) is a former co-host and senior segment producer of the G4 show X-Play.

She was previously the host of the podcast WebbAlert and a monthly columnist for the United States edition of FHM, where she contributed a monthly video game column titled "Tips from the Gaming Goddess".

Raised in Los Angeles, Webb attended UC Berkeley from 1996 to 2000.

She developed computer skills in her free time there, and after graduating from college worked for a dot-com company as a website administrator.

After the company went under during the dot-com bubble burst of 2000, her friend Catherine Schwartz got her hired at TechTV in 2001, and Webb became employed as the associate producer and web researcher for The Screen Savers.

There, she earned a bachelor's degree in rhetoric (with a minor in Italian) in 2000.

Throughout 2002 and 2003, she also regularly co-hosted TechTV's Call for Help with Chris Pirillo.

In April 2003, Webb left The Screen Savers to co-host X-Play with Adam Sessler.

Webb is one of the six TechTV personalities to survive the massive layoffs resulting from the May 2004 merger of G4 and TechTV.

Only Adam Sessler and Webb remained with the network after G4's change in format.

Throughout 2004 and beyond, Webb was featured in numerous issues of print publications.

Maxim magazine spotlighted her in their July 2004 issue.

FHM featured a five-page article in their November 2004 issue, and also had her listed in three consecutive years for their annual The 100 Sexiest Women in the World article: #73 in 2005, #62 in 2006, and #51 in 2007.

In April 2004, Webb was in "TechTV's Sexiest Techie" poll sponsored by Playboy magazine.

TechTV viewers could vote for their favorite girl via the Playboy website.

In August 2005, Webb became a contributing game columnist for FHM, alongside her regular hosting duties on X-Play.

Her monthly column was titled "Tips from the Gaming Goddess".

Readers were encouraged to email Webb their video-game-related inquiries; she would then answer one question each month.

On August 19, 2006, Webb married Rob Reid in a service at City Hall in San Francisco, California.

Webb has joined the web-series Acquisitions Incorporated in playing several Dungeons & Dragons games at live events like PAX West.

Other magazines have featured her as well, voted "Hottest Woman of the Year" in RTD's 2006 Top 10 countdown and in an article in the fall 2006 edition of Colleges.com U Magazine.

In February 2007, Webb wrote her final column for the magazine, which discontinued its U.S. publication in March.

She also hosted the short-lived Free Stuff on G4.

From August 2, 2007, to January 25, 2009, Webb had a daily video blogging initiative called WebbAlert.

These videos were 5 to 6 minutes in length, and each consisted of a recap of popular technology news of the day.

On occasion, Webb departed from the regular news format in favor of an episode on one particular topic of interest.

Examples included a recap of the annual TED Conference, a viral video special showcasing "future 'Darwin Award' winners", and tech-centric "Holiday Buyer's Guides".

In January 2009, Webb suspended WebbAlert indefinitely due to issues with maintaining it on a daily basis concurrently with her hosting duties on X-Play.

On February 25, 2009, G4 announced that Webb would be the host of their new show G4 Underground, a weekly series that profiles a wide range of people and topics that are of interest to the "internet generation".

It premiered March 29, 2009.

After Sessler's employment was terminated in April 2012, Webb was the only original TechTV personality remaining on the network.

After airing more than 1300 episodes, X-Play aired its final episode on January 23, 2013.

From June 11, 2013, through June 13, 2013, Morgan co-anchored Microsoft's nightly Xbox @ E3 Live streaming event coverage on Xbox Live, reuniting her with former G4 personalities Kevin Pereira, Blair Herter, Jessica Chobot, Blair Butler and Tina Summerford.

Morgan worked as a consultant and creative advisor for Activision Blizzard, where she also produced and hosted Blizzard's now-defunct monthly World of Warcraft discussion program WoW Source.

She began working at independent game studio Bonfire Studios in March 2017 in a production role.

In September 2017, Morgan announced her employment at Bonfire Studios where she helps organize the community and other various functions.

As an infant and small child, Webb appeared in advertisements for Gerber baby food, Kenner Toys, and an ad for McDonald's, where she recited the ingredients of the Big Mac to a game of Pat-a-cake.

Though Webb's parents refused to let her watch television, she made up for it by playing video games.

She began with an Atari, primarily the game Combat, but as technology progressed, The Legend of Zelda and Phantasy Star became two of her favorite games.

After Webb graduated from high school, she left home to attend UC Berkeley.