The Top 10 Wealthiest Video Game Billionaires In The World
FORBES’ latest cover story, for the FORBES Billionaires issue, is on Markus Persson, aka “Notch,” the creator of Minecraft, which was sold to Microsoft MSFT +1.09% for a whopping $2.5 billion last year.
This propelled Persson to the FORBES Billionaire list, where he’s valued at $1.3 billion.
(For some perspective, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, at the top of the list, is worth $79.2 billion.)
Notch is one of the highest profile billionaires in the video game space.
The only billionaire as famous in the West is Valve’s Gabe Newell, or “Gaben” as many devotees call him, the man at least partly responsible for such gaming phenomenons as Portal 2, the Half-Life franchise, and Steam.