This article was published on January 10, 2017

Watch: Elon Musk geeks out on games


Although I’ve previously heard that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk enjoys watching HBO’s Silicon Valley and likes to bake cookies on weekends, I didn’t know he was into gaming too.

In this short clip of an interview between him and Y Combinator president Sam Altman about games, Musk recommends Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch and Hearthstone, and waxes eloquent about the original Deus Ex title, which was released in 2000 on PC and PS2.

As it turns out, he’s been a fan of Overwatch at least since last June. I haven’t gotten into it yet as I’ve been way too busy farming weapon parts in Warframe, but the possibility of bumping into Musk in an Overwatch arena might just be enough to convince me to try it.

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