Stevie Case vs. the World: A Pioneering Gamer Opens Up About Industry Sexism

Stevie Case just wanted to play with the boys. Late one night in the spring of 1997, the 20-year-old pulled up in a U-Haul van at her parents’ house in Olathe, Kansas, with a surprise. She was dropping out of the University of Kansas, taking her things, and moving to Dallas, where a burgeoning scene of video-game developers were churning out such hits as Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein 3-D. She used to dream of becoming the president of the United States, but no longer. Now she wanted to be a gamer. Hard-core gamers already knew Case as KillCreek, the girl… Read Full Article