Stephanie Claire Bendixsen (born 31 March 1985
) is an Australian video game critic, author, and is best known as one of the former presenters of the video game television programs ''
Good Game'' and ''
Good Game: Spawn Point'', where she went by the
gamertag
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"Hex", and ''screenPLAY''.
Early life
Bendixsen was born in
Sydney
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New South Wales
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[ to an ]Argentinian
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father Axel Bendixsen and a Dutch mother Winifred Margaretha Klinkhamer.Auckland
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, New Zealand
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, where she lived until the age of nine when she moved back to Australia
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. When she was a child, she wanted to be an