Forbes, a media outlet primarily known for stock tips and pin-up spreads ofKenneth Lay, seems to think thatthey too know how you can get into the gaming industry. Of course, they predicted with stunning clarity that the internet might be something useful someday and that Microsoft may somehow makesomemoney forsomeone, so it’s possible that they have some kind of inside track, right? Right?
No. Not at all. This article is the same one you’ve read in the last seventeen issues of EGM, exceptDan Hsuisn’t smirking at you from the corner. Without a smug asian fellow nearby, tips on how to become a gaming professional simply don’t seem asgenuine.
Kids, I’ll let you in on a little secret; people become massively successful in the gaming industry through sheer, dumb luck. Will Wright, one of the most insanely intelligent people on the planet, owes a good deal of his tremendous success to being in the right place at the right time. Even our ownRob Summawas a stock boy at Saks Fifth Avenue who just happened to trip and fall into the lap of Gabe Newell, and upon touching the mighty girth of the mastermind behindHalf-Life, Mr. Summa was transformed into the Guyver of gaming critics (he’s got a chitinous exoskeleton, but he’s on our side, so it’s ok when he tears people’s limbs off).
In closing, your mother always wanted you to becomea doctor. Why do you want to hurtyour mother?
