he made millions with his own company?

edit: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Dennis_Fong

In 1999, GX Media raised over US$11 million dollars from CMGI and built gamers.com, a popular web portal.[10][11] Fong's Ferrari was parked in the lobby of the GX Media offices and the company threw a party at the Playboy Mansion during E3. In 2001



balller

more :p

co-founding Xfire, an instant messenger and social networking site for gamers which was acquired by Viacom for US$102 million in April 2006; co-founding Lithium, a leading Social CRM company with clients such as AT&T and Barnes & Noble;

In 2007, Fong founded Raptr, a social network and related software client for gamers. The company has raised over $12 million dollars in financing from Accel Partners.

"retired celebrity pro gamer"

lol plz

True though, compared to fatal1ty.

driving ferrari

He sold the ferrari a while back..

he was driving it during q3

retired pro gamer you say?

Kinda rings a bell.

No you arnt!

hes old

too busy doing donuts in ferrari

Nobody knows for sure. He may simply have not liked the game.

It was unquestionably not to everyone's taste when it came out.

Listen to this Makaveli interview from Razer CPL for one player's perspective on the game who was familiar with doom2/q1/q2:

http://www.filedropper.com/makaveli

Either way you cannot blame someone for doing other things in their life besides quake!

Thanks. :)

"..what do you think about Quake 3 as a game?" at 4:30 for anyone else interested in this.

nice find!

nice one digging that up, if you have any other gems lying around feel free to upload those as well ;).

Unholy venting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JtXnRG19qM

Unholy/immortal shenanigans:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ulZfsFEQDc

Makaveli on the news:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whYdpArdTiI

nice finds
do you happen to have the q3 techno songs that cached.net used to host?
someone made a pair of decent q3 songs(1 trance and 1 house). they were the best q3 songs i've heard, i'd love to have them again.
[+] for your videos
could you possibly reupload that makaveli razercpl interview?
thanks

>do you happen to have the q3 techno songs that cached.net used to host?

I have no idea what those are :-/

Although I understand _extremely_ well the pain of trying to find a particular track.

Where exactly did they host them? The wayback machine has a lot of cached.. cached. I don't know where (or when) to look for them though.

>could you possibly reupload that makaveli razercpl interview?

Yes, my bad. I didn't know how temporary filedropper was back then ;-(

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gyi1f3qcomxx2wj/makaveli.mp3

what i remember is that the songs came from a russian dj and that cached posted a story on the songs. songs were probably hosted on some russian site and are long gone.. it's still worth finding the story tho because we could get the dj's name and the song titles.
the songs came out in 01/02 i believe.
i tried searching the other day and couldn't fine the story, but i'll try it again later.

thanks a lot for uploading the makaveli interview.
i had seen all the madfraga videos, but never heard that mak interview or knew it even existed. :)

oh yeah, if anyone has the songs, please upload them and i'lll rep you for life.

I don't know if you mean this one, but there was a song called "Quadsong" and it's here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G98RsxjbloY

cos he became rich instead
cant blame him tho

he was playing a game of q4 against scoop (anyone remember him?) on a german tv show back then but I'm not sure whether that video can be found somewhere

http://www.esreality.com/index.php?a=post&id=943927

apparently there was no footage from thresh's POV

Scoop hasn't posted here since 2010 sometime

I would image this is how tresh practiced back in the day, and it is not accepted anymore.

what

ride the lightning

what

I am 12 years old and what is this?

Yeah, so you were on Reddit today then.

no I dont visit that site to messy, but I was on irc.

This is like...years old. Hope you don't get plussed for this

I just hope you wont get cancer from knowing more than other people

Thanks.

That's how I start my work day.

He did play Q3A just not competitively was a video of him and fatal1ty giving Quake 3 Tips

i think i read that he wasn't fond of the faster movement (strafe-jumping around). thought it was less strategic.

Actually! Thresh entered a Q3Test tournament, I had the demos in early 2000ish. The demos were crap to be honest, but still - he actually did win. It was a FFA online tourney.