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Stevie Case vs. the World: A Pioneering Gamer Opens Up About Industry Sexism
David Kushner

July 2022

Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future [44]Listen now (2 min) | How Africa’s Kiro’o Games shook up the gaming industry
David Kushner
Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future [42]Listen now (2 min) | How did a chain-smoking geek from Hanoi design the viral hit Flappy Bird – and why did he walk away?
David Kushner
Vietnam's most famous game developer speaks about the design of his viral hit, Flappy Bird.
David Kushner
Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future [41]Listen now (2 min) | A blind gamer made a version of Doom he could play by sound alone.
David Kushner

June 2022

Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future [40]Listen now (2 min) | Like a lot of 16-year-olds in the aughts, Blake Peebles wanted to play Guitar Hero all day long. But he actually convinced his…
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Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future [39]Listen now (2 min) | Larval game jocks circa Y2K.
David Kushner
Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future [39]Listen now | The pre-millennium female fraggers who broke open the boys' club.
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How comedian Robin Williams took esports mainstream.
David Kushner

May 2022

Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future [37]Listen now (2 min) | Major League Deathmatch
David Kushner
Dennis "Thresh" Fong on the highs and lows of being the first pro gamer.
David Kushner
Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future [35]Listen now (1 min) | Twenty-five years ago, Doom co-creator John Carmack decided to give away his Ferrari to the winner of a Quake tourney. And esports…
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