Video games are commonly known as games that are played for fun or as a hobby, but what if this fun could turn into your profession? Most video games began as arcade games played to achieve the highest score. People played every day with a "fistful of coins" to try to reach the top of the scoreboard. A great example of someone well known on the high score list is Billy Mitchell. In the documentary King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, Billy stated: "There will always be the argument that video games are meant to be played for fun. Believe me, some of it is a lot of fun. Video games are meant to be played at home , relaxing on a couch with friends. And they are, and it's fun in competitive games, when you want to associate your name with a world record, when you want your name to be written in history, you have to play the price." Video games are no longer played exclusively for entertaining profit, but also turning into a new way to make money. There is a new, emerging world that many people are unaware of, and that is the world of competitive gaming. Just like the National Football League (NFL) or the National Basketball Association (NBA), there is a league for video games also called the Major League of Gaming (MLG). Competitors participate in tournaments around the world to receive cash prizes or the chance to be sponsored by different companies. A very famous player of First Player Shooter (FPS) games Optic Nadeshot, sponsored by Redbull, was interviewed about his sponsor. He said he plays video games for about eight to 10 hours every single day. He also makes YouTube videos and has live streams that people watch while he plays. In some of his videos there are also advertisements, which represent another source of re... middle of paper ...... after this release, Call of Duty: Ghosts exceeded one billion dollars in sales in the first day alone. This was a huge success and a surprise considering that the previous version of Call of Duty didn't garner $1 billion in sales until the fifteenth day after its release. People suspect that the growth of this competitive scene is due to the gambling aspect. In 1994, the Kiplinger Washington Letter stated: “Gambling will be the fastest growing industry of the 1990s.” This statement is very true and applies to competitive gaming as well. As soon as you enter the world of competitive gaming, it's almost impossible to get out. The competitive gaming industry has been booming, but now it's at its peak. The world around us changes every day, similar to the world of competitive sports, but the world of competitive gaming is here to stay.