Many people may have been glad that booth babes were back at E3 this year. But while they might be good eye-candy, they rarely know anything about the actual games they are promoting.

Model Yvonna Lynn (pictured) was "appalled to find that so few of the girls played video games", and she wanted to do something about it. So a year ago she created the gaming modelling agency Charisma+2, which only employs models who are also gamers.
With her agency becoming more and more popular, Lynn hopes that future conventions will employ booth babes who are familiar with the gaming industry.

Charisma+2 official website

If you want to have some fun at a video game trade show, talk to the floor models.
Some won't say a word, often because they are contractually forbidden to. Some valiantly try to stay in character, which isn't easy when you're trying to channel a valkyrie or night elf. Some may outright mock show attendees. But very few will be able to talk about games.

Yvonna Lynn noticed this in 2005 when she was working a "Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess" exhibit at Nintendo's E3 booth. While other "booth babes" would hide in the back rooms during their breaks, she found herself sprinting around the Los Angeles Convention Center, trying to take in the show and occasionally speaking with some of the other models.

"I was appalled to find that so few of the girls played video games," she says. "I decided then that it would be really fun to run an agency that offered models who are also gamers."

After stirring the idea around in her head for a few years, it finally came to life a year ago in the form of Charisma+2. And while the company is hardly the largest trade-show modeling agency around, it's growing — and has managed to attract a fair bit of attention in a short period of time.

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