Major league gamers are making up to $3.4 million each year from sponsorship deals and winning tournaments. Most of these gamers are very young with an average age of 22 and some as young as 13 years old.
Here's today's example of how there is simply NO established property that Hollywood won't try to bring to the big screen: There's a "TETRIS" movie in the works.
The Russian block-matching puzzle game Tetris took the world by storm in the late 1980s when it was released on Nintendo's NES and Gameboy platforms. And we think we've found one of the best players around.
Legend has it that 30 years ago Atari buried a massive cache of video game cartridges in a landfill in New Mexico. Specifically, they buried tons and tons of copies of the failed 'E.T.' video game, an Atari non-classic that nearly sunk the gaming industry. Now a film crew has been given six months to search the massive 100 acre landfill to find the motherlode of lost games and confirm that the sto