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Hey, you! Yea, you! Do want to make money quick? Do you want women, power and fast cars? Do you want to be snorting cocaine off a hooker within the next six weeks? Well, if you're Lil' Poison, Arjun Mehta or Lim Ding Wen, you can't do those things we promised you this past weekend. However, you can still buy all the candy you want.

Videogames are full of people who want to make money off their favorite hobby, and Yahoo recently featured a group of them, focusing on just how amazingly young some of them are. Many of them aren't long out of diapers, and they're making more money than most of you. Arjun Mehta is fourteen-years-old, and his PlaySpan company raised $16.8 million in venture capital ... which he now gives to his father.

Victor M. 'Lil Poison' De Leon III has a stupid name, but he's an eleven-year-old pro gamer who is in the Guinness Book of Records and has been on 60 Minutes. He's got a hairless acorn winkie, but he probably gets more women in a week than you ever have. Lim Ding Wen made an iPhone App that reached 500,000 downloads, beating his father in a competition to see whose App could be more successful. He's only nine-years-old. If I was the father of that boy, I'd be simultaneously proud of him and ashamed of myself.

The article is worth checking out, just to see how long you can stand to read it before you're consumed with envy over these little snot-nosed brats and their huge wads of cash. Also, because it features professional Halo player Tom Taylor, who is one third of the team Str8 Rippin. We only mention that because it sounds like a gay porn site. BROKE STRAIGHT BOYS GET RIPPED APART ... or something.


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Jon B's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 14:06
Jon B
>Arjun Mehta is fourteen-years-old,

Halo 3 is a 15-rated game in the UK. I'm suprised no-one has picked up on it and risen a shitstorm yet.

And yes, I am totally bitter because I'm stuck at level 44 on Lone Wolves. Boo.
Diverse's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 14:10
Diverse
"professional Halo player"

LOL
darkmerchant's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 14:11
darkmerchant
is it just me or does it look like that kids bedroom is in Guantanamo
Daxelman's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 14:12
Daxelman
WHAT IS THIS WHY CANT I DONT EVEN...
Mockingbird's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 14:15
Mockingbird
Sorry, but there's no fucking way I would let my kid quit school to play video games. Yes I realize he's being tutored at him, but part of school is the social interaction with your peers. Add to the fact he's only won $1000 playing GH. I've won more than that on scratch-offs.
Daxelman's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 14:19
Daxelman
I'd rather home tutor my children when I grow up. School sucks, socially and educationally. Either you're in a gang or you've fucked up.

Bars are more social than school is.
Cartman's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 14:24
Cartman
That last kid who plays guitar hero reminds me alot of the character in the south park episode " Guitar Queer-o ". The one that plays alongside stan for a little bit.
entrager's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 14:25
entrager
Auto-fail for not mentioning that one of the featured kids is named Dan Slutz.

SLUTZ FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!
bluexy's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 14:26
bluexy
I still haven't gotten my prize for winning the Destructoid PlaySpan contest! Fuck that kid!
Uziwood's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 14:28
Uziwood
@Daxelman
You must live in the The glorious United States of America!
Jim Sterling's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 14:28
Jim Sterling
entranger: I really didn't need to. One of you were gonna do it for me. :-)
Ibutsu's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 14:31
Ibutsu
Bastards. :D
Daxelman's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 14:32
Daxelman
@Daxelman: Actually, I live in the glorious Confedrate States Of America...I mean, the Dirty South Of America...I mean, the South.

Damn. I really need to move up North....
trunxkam45's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 14:36
trunxkam45
money savvy desi ftw.
GoldenGamerXero's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 14:37
GoldenGamerXero
I wish I could spend all day just playing video games. I also wish that I was the Green Lantern so my dreams will probably never come true... WHY AM I DOOMED TO FAIL!
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 14:42
Holyetheline
T SQUARED JOKES ROFL
hickwarrior's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 14:47
hickwarrior
Sooo, how do these kids make money at that age? Geeze, this article makes me jealous but also happy to find out i do something else besides gaming. which is checking sites on the internet. I'm pale...
Wake Up Sammy's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 14:51
Wake Up Sammy
@Daxelman
The north is just as bad as the south,plus we have these things called polar bears.
Also I don't know if I like the fact that this means the little brats yelling in my ear over xboxlive might actually have a bigger salary than me
PhazonYoshi's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 15:02
PhazonYoshi
@Diverse, the kid's made more money than most of us will ever see in one place :\
wardrox's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 15:06
wardrox
It's his dad's company, I think they got a fair amount of cash lasttime they had a funding round too. Damn kids.
Skyllus vBi's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 15:09
Skyllus vBi
I can't believe you guys linked to that awful article.

Tom Taylor would be 1/4th of Str8 Ripping since MLG is 4v4, and the WCG guy who dropped out of school like a moron was last year.

I don't know much about the kids who supposedly developed games, but since all the competitive gaming stuff was inaccurate I assume that was too.
-PL-'s Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 15:31
-PL-
Yeah, at least my name isn't "Slutz".
michiyoyoshiku's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 15:38
michiyoyoshiku
I take comfort knowing they'll be broke or dead by 30
KieranD's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 16:14
KieranD
I take comfort knowing that their parents are the ones doing all the work, but the kids are being given credit so it makes the news, generating customer interest.
Genius's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 16:30
Genius
Lol... Limp Ding.
LogicallyDashing's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 17:33
LogicallyDashing
That Tom Taylor kid (the pro Halo player) actually runs his own Halo bootcamp in a house he owns in Orlando. If you know anything about the bootcamps that Mystery holds for wannabe PUAs, you'll know what I mean. Seriously, people who pay this guy to teach them how to be better at Halo need to get out more. :-P
suit's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 18:32
suit
Someone tell the Slutz kid that he can change his name with his money.
HammerShark's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 19:18
HammerShark
IDK why, I just instantly thought: "Money Makin' Spartans". Built and bred to be better money makers than the rest.
parrothead's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/03/2009 19:52
parrothead
I always thought Tom Taylor was kind of cool.
makingmillions's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/21/2009 21:58
makingmillions
These kids will be blind by 20. There are better ways to make a million dollars www.howtomakeamilliondollarsonline.com
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