Playing Video Games Is a Full-Time Job for This Twitch Streamer

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, a popular live-streaming video platform. Here, fans know him as “Trump,” one of the best players to stream Hearthstone, Blizzard Entertainment’s virtual card game based on the lore of their popular titles Warcraft and World of Warcraft. It is similar to traditional card games such as Magic: The Gathering. Read more...