
Game on: How COVID-19 became the perfect match for gamers
Video games were already growing in popularity before the coronavirus pandemic. But now they’re everywhere.
Adam (@aepstein) is a reporter for Quartz, covering the future of television and its reverberations throughout business, technology, and culture. He attended Johns Hopkins University as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, where he wrote about the abolitionist John Brown with disturbing frequency and cultivated his obsession with all things Cormac McCarthy. He also has a master's degree from Columbia Journalism School. Before coming to Quartz, Adam was a freelance entertainment writer and worked briefly in publishing.
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