I wanted to do another gamer/community feature. I was having a hard time deciding on whom I should do it on. That was until I was browsing my friend’s list one day and it hit me ..duh!.. GamerchiX! And who better to ask then the beautiful and talented PMS Kitty!! So I got a hold of her at an ungodly hour of the day for me and asked her a few questions while trying to keep my eyes open!
V: For those people who don’t actually know you, or at least know who you are… who are you and what do you do?!
K: Ok, Real name, Chloe Brown. Primary GT, PMS Kitty.
What I do? Let’s see, I’m an Xbox MVP, I work on the PMS Clan website, and I’m one of the three founders of the GamerchiX group on xbox.com
V: What’s an Xbox MVP all about?!
K: The MVP Award is a program Microsoft runs, which recognizes a person who has made an incredible contribution to the Xbox Community.
V: Oh awesome! I never even knew that existed!
V: What are some of your favorite games of all time?!
K: I pick and choose my games, Halo 2 is still in the top, and while I spend most of my time there, I do love games like Fable and Jade Empire. Lost weeks to both of those.
V: What is your favorite thing about gaming?
K: Favorite thing has to be the communities I’ve gotten to meet and be involved in. To make it short, it’s all about the people.
V: What is GamerchiX and how did this group start?
K: The GamerchiX started as simply a private section on the Xbox.com forums, a place where women gamers could come and hang out, meet others of like minds, to leave the ‘clan’ at the door and get to MEET the gamer behind the tag. It’s really a community, a network. In no way is it a clan. Though clans have been formed by some of the members, just as others have found a comfortable place in PMS, KSI or any other clan who has a representative in the group.
We welcome and support all gamers, competitive and casual, but we Do require that Drama gets left outside.
V: you answered that like you only said it once or twice! 
K: (only a few 
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V: Were there any difficulties starting this group?
K: Really, the only difficulties were originally time, and our ability to get things organized on our end. There Was some hesitation on the part of Trixie, Diva and myself as to WHEN to launch the group.
We officially launched in June, though we were working on it for at least a month longer than that, with any degree of seriousness, but just prior to that, the PMS Clan team had launched, and there was a huge amount of feedback of all kinds. We ultimately decided that it would actually benefit us to launch the group, because the group is purely organic. We don’t have official support, we don’t have a budget, we run this totally ourselves.
That doesn’t mean we aren’t keeping our options open though, or that we don’t have a few things already in the works…
V: What is your favorite thing about the forums?
K: One of the things I love is that there is no drama, lol.
There’s this huge group of incredibly different women, from all walks of life, from I think we’re up to 18 different countries now… and there is not a single one that thinks alike
V: With having a 1000+ members do you find it difficult to keep track of everyone or having anyone feeling lost in the crowd?
K: The worst are the gamertag changes, lol. We do our best. Trixie keeps everything in an excel document, and I keep having to redo our master lists (we’re onto our third version, I only did the second one less than a month ago!)
I admit that I know gamertags, but not chix..
It’s impossible to keep up the sheer number of posts and threads in a day.
V: Trust me I’ve seen with my own eyes and it is crazy at times!
V: What are the GamerchiX goals for the future?
K: Some of them, I can’t share unfortunately. Although, there WILL be what I hope will be a biiiiiiiiiig announcement in March.
We are hard at work on a website as well.
Dang.. I really want to know what all these secrets are but no kitty wont give it up!
V: Other than being a co-founder of the largest all-female group of gamers and part of the PMS Clan. What other goals or aspirations have you set for yourself and/or completed?
K: Let’s see, things I want to accomplish….
I defiantly want to stay in the Community, although I’m not quite sure what path that will ultimately take. Although I do have some ideas and hopes. I’ve gone back to school, for the first time in two and a half years, with an interesting Marketing. I’m loving my classes so far, but then again, I’m only into the first month!
V: That’s great!
V: And I have to ask… I ask everybody this!! If you could make Halo Babies with any one person who would it be and why?!
K: oh good god
I guess the ONLY logical answer, considering right now, is The Don Won 
V: but who wouldn’t want to with The Don!?
K: Exactly!
V: Thank you so much for taking the time out or I should say between games and chats to talk with me and answer my questions! hehe!
Didn’t get enough from reading this interview?! For even more information about the group please check out the GamerchiX xbox page!
If you’re a female and you would like to be part of the largest female group ever in life! Please send an email to xlmail@microsoft.com with the subject: XGX.
Article By: Venus Envy
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