Celebrities aren’t so different from the rest of us, many love unwinding with video games in their downtime!
From Call of Duty to Mario Party to Fortnite, these stars have shared the games they can’t get enough of.
Some have even taken their passion online, sharing gameplay and recommendations with fans on YouTube.
Browse through the slideshow to discover 15 stars who love video games and some of their favorite titles to play…
Tom Holland
While promoting his video game movie Uncharted, Tom Holland talked about some of his favorite games of all time, naming Skyrim, Hogwarts Legacy (which hadn’t been released yet at the time, but he was excited to play), and Sony’s Spider-Man games. How fitting! He also loves the Uncharted games, of course.
Timothée Chalamet
Timothée Chalamet told IGN that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 was among his favorite games of 2023, calling it “just amazing.” He also once ran a YouTube channel where he shared custom Xbox 360 controllers he painted and sold.
Steven Spielberg
The legendary director‘s son, Max Spielberg, once said in an interview with MinMax that his dad enjoys playing Call of Duty and is especially into the campaign storylines.
Ariana Grande
Ariana Grande once answered a fan question about which games she was referring to in her song “six thirty.” She revealed that she’d been talking about Mario Party and Mario Kart, and said she also enjoyed playing Sackboy: A Big Adventure.
Zendaya
Zendaya once posted a screenshot of herself playing The Last of Us Part II, captioning it, “replaying our favorite game.”
Brie Larson
Brie Larson has been a longtime Nintendo fan. In a 2020 interview with Elle, she talked about playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Fortnite, Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and Super Mario Party. She also shared her love for Luigi’s Mansion, saying Luigi was her favorite character, and named The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild among her favorite games.
The Captain Marvel star has brought her Nintendo Switch with her to work, playing between takes. She has also shared videos of herself playing games like Fortnite and Animal Crossing on her YouTube channel, and in one video she taught herAvengers: Endgameco-starTessa Thompsonto playFortnite!
Brie‘s Nintendo love came full circle when she was cast as Rosalina in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. She has said that playing Super Mario Galaxy with her younger sister was a cherished childhood memory, and that she had a “fan-girl moment” when she learned she’d be voicing the character.
Henry Cavill
Henry Cavill has expressed his love for video games on multiple occasions. He played The Witcher games before starring as Geralt in the Netflix series, and has called The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt one of his favorites.
In 2016, he toldConan O’Brien that he was too busy playing World of Warcraft to answer the phone when Zack Snyder called to tell him he’d landed the role of Superman.
The actor also built his own gaming PC, documenting the process in a video he shared in 2020. In 2019, Henry told GQ that he’d rather stay in and play video games than go out.
“At home, I get to sit playing games for ridiculous amounts of hours and escape there, because going outside has the opposite effect,” he said.
Anya Taylor-Joy
Anya Taylor-Joy told Entertainment Tonight in 2021 that she played video games to prepare for her role as Princess Peach in The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
“The greatest part is that I get to say I am doing homework or work or research just by gaming, which is pretty great,” she said. “I have to. The fan base is so intense, of course I have to do it. It’s so much fun.”
Drake
Drake made a splash in the gaming world in 2018 when his Fortnite Twitch collaboration with Ninja became the most-viewed stream by a single player at the time.
The rapper also wrote his 2018 song “Nice for What” while playing NBA 2K, according to a Rap Radar podcast interview with Murda Beatz.
Megan Fox
Megan Fox is an avid gamer.
The Transformers star told People in 2021 that she “destroyed” her then-fiancé, Machine Gun Kelly, at Mortal Kombat.
“He’d never seen me play … so we got the latest Mortal Kombat, we downloaded it, and I crushed him,” she said. “Like, destroyed him every time we fought. We did, like, 40 something matches, and I absolutely destroyed him every time.”
In 2011, she told Collider about her obsession with Halo: Reach.
“I have a complete addiction to that game. It is sick. I play online mostly and [other gamers] have no idea. They make fun of my gamer tag too because it is funny. They are all a bunch of guys and it is clear that I am a girl so they make fun of my name, and they have no idea they are making fun of me.”
Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig, Mr. 007 himself, has admitted he loves playing video games.
“Halo is good because it’s shooting aliens,” he said in 2007,ur and then I feel dirty. Vice City, for example. I think, ‘Oh yes, all right, I’ve stolen 18 cars. I’ve had enough now.'”
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Mila Kunis
Mila Kunis elaborated on why she loves Call of Duty at Comic-Con in 2012.
“COD is, like, really, really fun,” she said. “Once you get through Call of Duty‘s first person, then you unlock the Nazi zombies and your whole purpose becomes just to kill these Nazi zombies and, you know, you kill them a lot. You board up the windows and you kill zombies and maybe I’m not really good at it but that’s not for lack for trying.”
Jack Black
Jack Black has spent time playing games such as Minecraft and LEGO Star Wars on his YouTube channel, which has amassed more than 5 million subscribers.
OliSuper Smash Bros. among her favorite video games, according to a 2020 interview with UPROXX
She also spoke about the importance of women’s representation in the gaming world.
“Sometimes you don’t know something’s possible until you see someone else doing it — sometimes you don’t know something’s OK,” Olil than the world might make you believe. There are so many women who game and girls who game.”
Robin Williams
The late Robin Williams was a huge fan of Nintendo games. In fact, he named his daughter Zelda after the popular character in The Legend of Zelda games.
