This story is for all of the folks who were told to “stop wasting time playing those video games” as children because it looks like one man’s love of gaming just landed him the big bucks. At the age of 16, Josh Fabian emancipated himself from his white adoptive parents and ultimately dropped out of high school. Fast forward, and his gaming startup was valued at $105 million as of February 2022 — funny how life works out, right? According to CNBC Make It, Fabian managed to raise $34 million from investors for Metafy, the online platform that he launched at the height of the pandemic. It offers amateur video gamers the opportunity to pay for coaching sessions led by some of the world’s top players. Metafy Classes are LIVE! Grab a seat and learn from your favorite Experts as they share their hard-won experience and explain the aspects of the game that will help you and your classmates ruthlessly destroy your enemies! New Classes added constantly! https://t.co/dfALBUoMPk...

This 11-year-old is making big moves in the gaming world! According to Black Business, Jamaican native, Dominic Darby has won the XPRIZE Connect Code Games competition after creating his own video game for the first time. The competition, sponsored by California-based, nonprofit, XPRIZE, was a partnership between the company and video game developer E-Line Media. Supported by Endless Network, the partnership is on a mission to improve lives through technology. Darby was named “Best in Class,” and won a $1,000 cash prize in the Junior Division. Using MIT’s Scratch coding software, Darby’s winning piece titled, “How to Fall,” consists of a game character who moved through multiple levels while getting away from different obstacles.   This is the first game that Darby has ever created and it took him several months to finish the game. According to his mother, Shellian Darby, her son first learned about the platform at just six-years-old after attending a summer program held at the...