Nikole Zivalich, commonly known as NikoleZ, is a California native, born and raised in SoCal. She briefly lived in Boise, Idaho where she fell into a nearly frozen radioactive lake, making her forever incapable of tolerating the cold. During the winter months it will be rare to find her without a pare of gloves or mittens in her purse. Nikole is now 21 years young and has already decided to turn 21 again next year. She is a Virgo, vegetarian, who loves her dog Molly, a toy poodle.

When Nikole was in the 6th grade Super Smash Bros came out, all she wanted to do was talk about and play it, when none of her friends seemed to care how funny the SSB commercial was she knew she was different. Nikole has been writing about games, and geek culture for several years and is going to school to be able to do it full time. Hosting and producing are also things she's been able to bring her hobbies into. Nikole hosts and produces The Game Show and Control This. She also is the Associate Editor of GameGirl.com and an contributing writer at TheStartScreen.com. She currently has a few more projects in the works.

She also loathes writing about herself in the third person and isn't nearly as big a narcissist as she likes to pretend so this was painful for her to write.