A Bristol teenager has taken his love for video games and turned it into a money making pastime. Mason Bristow, a 17-year-old who lives with his parents and siblings in South Gloucestershire, has spent the majority of his life playing video games with his friends, but his once hobby has now turned into a brilliant money making machine.
In 2018, Mason and his friends started playing a game called Rec Room, a virtual reality game that allows multiple players to join a session online. It wasn’t until after lockdown in 2021, that the money started to come in, at which point Mason made the decision to turn his hobby into a career and has been creating for the platform ever since.
His aspirations don’t stop there either and while he’s hoping to make it big in musical theatre he has plans for his gaming career as well but he’s going to keep his options open. He said: “I think it got extremely big, and I would want a big team with me working to produce massive games and even come outside of rec room producing games on our own - maybe but that's completely into the future.”
