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DougDoug
Douglas Scott Wreden (born January 18, 1991), known professionally as DougDoug (formerly Gloudas), is an American YouTuber, Twitch streamer, and former ''Hearthstone'' caster and producer. He makes gaming videos that revolve around him doing various gaming challenges, often involving the use of artificial intelligence, modifications to games, and giving his viewers on Twitch heavy control of the game or stream. In 2023, he won the "League of Their Own" award at The Streamer Awards, and in 2024, he was nominated for the "Best Software and Game Development" award. Biography Douglas Scott Wreden was born on January 18, 1991. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in computer science. He resided in the state of Washington until he moved to Los Angeles, California in September 2023. He is the brother of Davey Wreden, the designer of ''The Stanley Parable'' and director of '' The Beginner's Guide''. Career Esports Wreden worked for Electronic Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davey Wreden
Davey Wreden (born September 29, 1988) is a game designer and developer, best known for his work on ''The Stanley Parable'', '' The Beginner's Guide'', and '' Wanderstop''. Career ''The Stanley Parable'' Wreden started developing video games in 2009. He created ''The Stanley Parable'' in 2011, as a modification for Valve Corporation's game ''Half-Life 2''. The mod itself received attention for its approach to storytelling and use of the video game medium. In 2013, he remade and expanded it into a standalone title with co-developer William Pugh. ''The Stanley Parable'' received critical acclaim for its thought-provoking themes and innovative use of popular gameplay mechanics. The game explores the nature of player agency and challenges traditional game design conventions. Wreden experienced depression after the success of ''The Stanley Parable'', which included various media outlets' game of the year awards. He described responding to emails, both negative and positive. " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atrioc
Brandon Ewing, known online as Atrioc, is an American Twitch live streamer, YouTuber and speedrunner. He is known for his news series ''Marketing Monday'', using his prior experience to give presentations within the marketing and business field to his audience. Ewing is also a former world record holder in speedrunning the video game series ''Hitman''. He began streaming consistently at the beginning of 2020, and has over 819,000 YouTube subscribers and 378,000 Twitch followers as of March 2025. Career Before streaming Ewing grew up on a NATO military base in Germany. During college, he was an avid ''League of Legends'' player. While studying at Arizona State University, he founded the university's Esports Club. After graduating with a degree in marketing, Ewing started his career at Twitch in February 2014 as a marketing and content manager, before moving on to work under marketing at Nvidia in December 2017. Streaming career Ewing is active in the ''Hitman'' spee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neuro-sama
Neuro-sama is an artificial intelligence VTuber and chatbot that livestreams on her creator's Twitch channel "vedal987". Her speech and personality are powered by an artificial intelligence (AI) system which utilizes a large language model, allowing her to communicate with viewers in the stream's chat. She was created by a computer programmer and AI developer named Vedal, who had the idea of an AI VTuber by combining a large language model with a computer-animated avatar. Her avatars, or models, are designed by the VTuber Anny, of the channel "annytf". She debuted on Twitch on 19 December 2022. As of January 2025, Neuro-sama is the seventh most-subscribed channel on Twitch of all time. Development Neuro-sama was created by a developer named Vedal, with the username "vedal987". Her responses are generated by a large language model. Neuro-sama can communicate in several ways, primarily by converting these generated responses into a high-pitched female voice using a text-to-speec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Ahgren
Ludwig Anders Ahgren (born July 6, 1995), sometimes known mononymously as Ludwig, is an American live streamer, YouTuber, podcaster, comedian, esports commentator and competitor. Ahgren is best known for his live streams on Twitch from 2018 through late 2021, and on YouTube beginning in late 2021, where he broadcasts video-game-related content as well as non-video-game-related content such as game shows and contests. He is also known for his work as an esports commentator at various '' Super Smash Bros. Melee'' tournaments. He is the co-owner of the esports organization Shopify Rebellion. He began streaming full-time on February 16, 2019. While holding a widely publicized "subathon" event, Ahgren became the most-subscribed Twitch streamer of all time in 2021, eventually reaching around 282,000 subscribers at its peak, beating the previous record set by fellow streamer Ninja. On November 29, 2021, Ahgren announced that he had signed an exclusive deal with YouTube Gaming. At th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley, it is the state's first land-grant university and is the founding campus of the University of California system. Berkeley has an enrollment of more than 45,000 students. The university is organized around fifteen schools of study on the same campus, including the UC Berkeley College of Chemistry, College of Chemistry, the UC Berkeley College of Engineering, College of Engineering, UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science, College of Letters and Science, and the Haas School of Business. It is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was originally founded as par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esports
Esports (), short for electronic sports, is a form of competition using video games. Esports often takes the form of organized, multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players, played individually or as teams. Multiplayer competitions were long a part of video game culture, but were largely between amateurs until the late 2000s when the advent of online streaming media platforms, particularly YouTube and Twitch (service), Twitch, enabled a surge in participation by professional gamers and spectators. By the 2010s, esports was a major part of the video game industry, with many game developers designing for and funding for tournaments and other events. Esports first became popular in East Asia, particularly in China and South Korea (which first licensed professional players in 2000) but less so in Japan, whose broad Gambling in Japan, anti-gambling laws prohibit professional gaming tournaments. Esports are also popular in Europe and the Americas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Founded in May 1982 by former Apple Inc., Apple employee Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer game industry and promoted the designers and programmers responsible for its games as "software artists". EA published numerous games and some productivity software for personal computers, all of which were developed by external individuals or groups until 1987's ''Skate or Die!'' The company shifted toward internal game studios, often through acquisitions, such as Distinctive Software becoming EA Canada in 1991. Into the 21st century, EA develops and publishes games of established franchises, including ''Battlefield (video game series), Battlefield'', ''Need for Speed'', ''The Sims'', ''Medal of Honor (video game series), Medal of Honor'', ''Command & Conquer'', ''Dead Space'', ''Mass Effect'', ''Dragon Age'', ''Army of Two (series), Army of Two'', ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ESL (company)
ESL Gaming GmbH (formerly known as Electronic Sports League) is a German-French esports organizer and production company that produces video game competitions worldwide. ESL was the world's largest esports company in 2015, and the oldest that is still operational. Based in Cologne, Germany, ESL has eleven offices and multiple international TV studios globally. ESL is the largest esports company to broadcast on Twitch. In 2022, it was announced that ESL and esports platform FACEIT were acquired by Savvy Games Group (SGG), a holding company owned by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. As part of the acquisition, the two companies merged to form the ESL FACEIT Group. History The Electronic Sports League was launched in 2000 as the successor to the Deutsche Clanliga, which was founded in 1997 by Jens Hilgers. The company began with an online gaming league and a gaming magazine. It also rented out servers for game competitions. In 2015, ESL's Intel Extreme Masters Katowic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dot Esports
The GAMURS Group, simply known as Gamurs, is an esports media and entertainment publisher. Established in 2014, the group operates multiple brands focusing on the esports and entertainment news markets, including the websites: ''Dot Esports'', ''We Got This Covered,'' ''The Mary Sue'', ''Prima Games'', and ''the Escapist (magazine), Escapist''. GAMURS is based in Sydney, Sydney, Australia, with an office in Austin, Texas. History In 2010, Riad Chikhani, Phillip Luu, and Malik Akl established Rune Gear, a forum for the game ''RuneScape''. They sold the business at the age of 17 to focus on school. Their experience inspired them to develop a similar business, but for a wider variety of games. In December 2014, they joined with Carl Oehme and Halim Yoo to form GAMURS Group. GAMURS began as a social network for gamers after joining the NRMA Jumpstart program run by the Slingshot Accelerator. Shortly after the program ended, the company raised $500,000 in a seed round. GAMURS acquire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Last Hero Standing
''Last Hero Standing'' is a 5-issue comic book limited series published by Marvel Comics in 2005. The series was written by Tom DeFalco and drawn by Pat Olliffe (who also co-plotted the series). The series stars many characters from the MC2 universe, such as A-Next and the Fantastic Five. Although these characters existed prior to this miniseries, Marvel wished to reintroduce them to the public quickly following the success of ''Spider-Girl'' in digest size format. The series was released weekly and then reprinted as a trade paperback. Plot summary While "joy-hunting" together in Canada, Wild Thing is shocked when her father Wolverine is kidnapped in front of her eyes. Elsewhere across the world, one of the Ladyhawk sisters is abducted as well. These events get the attention of the Watcher Uatu. After the first appearances of the original Fantastic Four, and the defeat of Loki which caused the creation of the first group of Avengers, a new line of heroes have emerged in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Brode
Ben Brode is an American video game designer. He was the game director and public face of ''Hearthstone'' until 2018 when he left to found his own game studio, Second Dinner, where he is now Chief Development Officer. Life and career Brode joined Blizzard Entertainment as a video game tester at the age of 20, working on ''Warcraft III'' and ''World of Warcraft'', a position in which he worked for a total of 18 months before becoming Environment Test Lead. During his work testing these games he spent time making custom maps for ''Warcraft III'', one of which became 'Map of the Week' and was released to the wider community. Brode began looking for a new position at Blizzard, including applying for a position as a designer on ''StarCraft II'', before finding himself in a creative position on the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game. Brode became lead designer of ''Hearthstone'' in 2015, and was promoted to game director later in the year. While working on Hearthstone, Brode was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tempo Storm
Tempo Storm is an American esports professional video game team that has teams competing in '' Age of Empires II'', ''FIFA'', '' Magic: The Gathering'', fighting games, and '' Shadowverse''. They have formerly held divisions in ''Hearthstone'', ''Heroes of the Storm'', ''Fortnite'', ''League of Legends,'' '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'', ''Overwatch'', '' Vainglory'', ''Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege,'' ''World of Warcraft'', and ''PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds''. Owner Andrey "Reynad" Yanyuk is the owner and founder of Tempo Storm. Yanyuk has placed top 4 in Dreamhack and won multiple online tournaments such as Battle of the Best. Current divisions ''FIFA'' Fighting games Tempo Storm expanded into the FGC on March 9, 2015, beginning with the sponsorship of Christopher "NYChrisG" Gonzalez. On July 2, 2015, Weston "Westballz" Dennis and Jeffrey "Axe" Williamson joined Tempo Storm. On March 1, 2016, NYChrisG was released from Tempo Storm as his contract expired. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
