Gaming's Profits and Personal Costs

Here's the crazy truth: video games rake in more cash than movies and music put together,

surpassing two hundred billion dollars a year! Yet, Alexey Pajitnov,

the mastermind behind Tetris, saw zero profit from his creation for ten years,

all because he was employed by the Soviet government. Fast forward to modern times,

Markus "Notch" Persson flipped his Minecraft empire to Microsoft for a massive 2.5 billion dollars—only

to declare that the windfall brought him nothing but misery. It just goes to

show that the jackpot in gaming doesn't always lead to happiness.