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03-27-2014, 08:19 AM
Playing Video Games Is a Full-Time Job for This Twitch Streamer
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Every kid who has ever touched a Nintendo 64, PlayStation or any other gaming console has thought to themselves, “I wish I could play video games for a living.”
That’s exactly what Jeffrey Shih, 26, does.
Every morning from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. PT, tens of thousands of viewers tune into Shih’s educational video-game stream on Twitch (http://www.twitch.tv/), a popular live-streaming video platform. Here, fans k**w him as “Trump (http://www.twitch.tv/trumpsc),” one of the best players to stream Hearthstone (http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/?-), Blizzard Entertainment’s (http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/) virtual card game based on the lore of their popular titles Warcraft and World of Warcraft (http://us.battle.net/wow/en/). It is similar to traditional card games such as Magic: The Gathering. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/27/twitch-streamers/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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