The richest people in the video game industry

[Kamikaze Revy]

Gabe Newell

Net Worth: $1.3 billion
Company: Valve and Steam
Games: Half-Life, Portal, Left for Dead, Team Fortress, etc.
Markus "Notch" Persson

Net Worth: $1.3 billion
Company: Mojang (sold to Microsoft for $2.5 billion in cash)
Game: Minecraft
Marcus Pincus

Net Worth: $990 million
Company: Zynga
Game: Farmville, YoVille, etc.
Melvyn Morris

Net Worth: $627 million
Company: King Digital
Game: Candy Crush
Riccardo Zacconi

Net Worth: $548 million
Company: King Digital
Game: Candy Crush
Palmer Luckey

Net Worth: $500 million
Company: Oculus VR
Developing: Oculus Rift
Ilkka Paananen

Net Worth: $400
Company: Supercell
Game: Clash of Clans

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

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[feelosofer]

Mobile gaming is a gold mine if you can craft a hit.

 

[TheGodling]

These facebooks games really make money like that

The free-to-play hustle, aka get dumb-ass teenagers hooked on a simple addictive game where they can pay a small amount that makes the game easier (or sabotage the game so they pretty much have to pay up to enjoy it) and sit back. It starts with them paying a dollar for one thing, than a dollar on another day and soon that 'pay-wall' is lowered and lowered and they're spending a dollar or five a day to keep going, which ends up costing them way more than the $60 a full-priced game is.

 

[Fatboi1]

Crazy.

 

[The Mad Titan]

Mobile gaming are getting these guys paid.

 

[Black White Sox Hat]

If you didn't read this in the Robin Leach voice you lost.