Original Gamer Life

Original Gamer Life, or OGLife, is an online platform and community that encourages gamers in underserved communities and high-stress sectors to participate. These communities include military veterans, first responders and people over the age of 40 years old.[1] The platform, which is the first incubated project powered by Infrastructure-as-a-Service tech company StrongNode.io,[2] describes itself as a ‘thriving-as-a-service’ social impact ecosystem which users can interact with by playing games, watching streams or completing wellbeing tasks.[3]

Original Gamer Life
TypePrivate
IndustryOnline gaming
Founded2021 in Texas, U.S.
FounderDaniel Saito
Websiteogl.gg

History

Original Gamer Life was founded as a blockchain-powered streaming service in 2021 by Daniel Saito in response to the oldest esports champion in the world, Abbe Borg, also known as ‘DieHardBirdie’, who wanted to help veterans, seniors and former military personnel to express themselves through esports and gaming. The Swedish gamer, who was featured in his own episode of documentary series Totally Game [4] and has his own stream on video game live streaming service Twitch, wanted to do this following his win with teammates in the Seniors Counter-Strike: Global offensive (CS:GO) tournament at DreamHack Summer 2019 tournament. He was 76 years old at the time.[5] Abbe Borg is OGLife's chief gaming officer and Brandon Sivret is its CEO.

References
  1. Chen, Amy. "CS:GO world champion DieHardBirdie recruits for all-senior esports team". Upcomer. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. Timms, Jessica. "Original Gamer Life's All-Senior Esports Team, Golden Snipers, Challenge Japan's Matagi Snipers to an Unprecedented International Showdown". Accesswire. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  3. Yeh, Dennis. "Senior Esports Team Opens Applications To Players Age 60 & Above". Screenrant. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  4. "Totally Game: DieHardBirdie became a CS:GO champion at 78". PC Gamer. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  5. Tuting, Kristine. "Totally Game: DieHardBirdie became a CS:GO champion at 78". OneEsports. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
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