My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin

Michael Sherman, director of e-sports, Riot Games.

My guest today is Michael Sherman, director of esports for Riot Games. While attending the University of Texas at Dallas for Computer Science, he worked as an Automotive Safety Software Engineer for Texas Instruments, inventing a wireless car-seat that would sound an alarm if a child was left in the car. In 2013 he moved into the emerging world of competitive video game playing, developing broadcast tools for live esports competitions. The following year he dropped out of college to help oversee the growth of college-level League of Legends in North America at Riot Games. In 2022 he joined the team behind Teamfight Tactics, a chess-like spinoff of League of Legends, working to establish the game as a competitive eSport. Today, he is helping to build Riot’s forthcoming fighting game, 2XKO. NOTES Twitter: <a href="https://x.com/riotsherman?lang=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@RiotSherman</a><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/a-falconer-enters-the-world-of-video-games#:~:text=The%20story%20of%20how%20Nricco,acquired%20the%20malleability%20of%20myth." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Falconer Enters the World of Video Games</a> Be attitude for gains. <a href="https://plus.acast.com/s/my-perfect-console" rel="payment" target="_blank">https://plus.acast.com/s/my-perfect-console</a>.
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In My Perfect Console, Simon Parkin, award-winning writer for the New Yorker and The Observer newspaper's video game critic invites a well-known guest from the worlds of gaming, film and television, music, comedy and more to pick the five video games they would like to immortalise on their very own fictional games machine. They discuss those five games in chronological order of release, interspersed with biographical chat about the guest’s life and career –– a lens that often leads to new and unexpected insights. "Thoroughly modern and ahead of its time...a gift." - NEW YORK'S VULTURE"Charming, insightful." -- THE GUARDIAN.TIME OUT'S 50 Best Podcasts. (Note: Episode descriptions may contain affiliate links).
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