“I love to play all kinds of games. Ask what? Top, interesting. I try (for you) to pass them as quickly and efficiently as possible. I hope you will enjoy”. This appeal to subscribers is from the official VK account of the let's play blogger, who is known on the Internet as Ivan Gideon. His work (and this is actually quite difficult, it takes time and knowledge) is really liked by subscribers: there are already almost one and a half million of them on the TheGideonGames YouTube channel in the spring of 2021.
Official data
- Name: Shikov Ivan Evgenievich;
- Pseudonym: Ivan Gideon/Gideon/GideonGames;
- Birthday: August 7;
- Zodiac sign: Leo;
- Occupation: letsplay blogger, owner of the youtube channel TheGideonGames ”.
About his life and blogging
The year of birth of the blogger is not indicated anywhere, as well as the place where Ivan was born, spent his childhood. He himself mentioned the place of birth in his VK profile: “Very deep suburbs.” Some unofficial sources insist that this is the “deep suburbs” – Lyubertsy. The video blog “TheGideonGames” appeared on youtube in 2021, Ivan devoted the first stories there to the passage of the games “Call of Duty”, “Family Guy”, “Far Cry 3”.
When almost every third gamer becomes a let's play blogger, it's hard to get into the top list among such an army of competitors. And GideonGames, according to the reviews of its subscribers, is very competent in its blogging work, thereby getting into the list of the most popular game reviewers. Here are the reviews of Ivan's fans who describe the positive aspects of his work:
- “Gideon – he is very comfortable, you can say – a lamp, high-quality blogger”;
- “First of all, he pays attention to the passage of new products”;
- “Does not conduct unnecessary conversations, which helps to fully enjoy the game”;
- “Makes videos and streams smoothly, calmly, without vulgarity and rude jokes”;
- “Finds the maximum number of tips, prizes, artifacts from developers in games, goes through almost all storylines.”
True, some critics say that Gideon is sometimes too keen on exploring the locations in the game. Ivan's subscribers, in response to this criticism, respond that this activity in the let's play is also extremely useful.
About his personal life
For several years, let's play blogger Gideon has been in a constant relationship with a wonderful girl. On the Internet, she is known as Margo Nicki: she is a blogger, artist, active feminist. Margot, together with her beloved young man, attends gaming events, shares his interests. Both Gideon and her Instagram and VK are full of joint photos, the couple gives the impression of absolutely happy lovers. Margo herself maintains an interesting blog on Instagram and VK, dedicated to the problems of feminism.
Ivan with his girlfriend
Interesting facts
- Ivan's great-grandfather is a World War I hero who took part in the legendary “attack of the dead” in 1915 th year during the defense of the Osovets fortress. Ivan Gideon expressed his gratitude online to the creators of the film “Attack of the Dead” and confirmed the authenticity of those events: the story of his great-grandfather was recorded by Ivan's father, Evgeny Shikov. share of his time. Ivan is an active theatergoer when time permits. He has many “trophies” of visiting theaters: for example, the autograph of director Yevgeny Grishkovets on his book “The Shirt”: “To Ivan – with respect.”
- Margo in her Instagram profile informed followers that she had made a vaccine against covid : “Vanya’s father had a rather unpleasant illness, and we don’t want to endanger our health,” from a post about the vaccine made. By default, Gideon is also assumed to have been vaccinated.
