Did Elon Musk create Blastar?
Blastar was a game written by Elon Musk in 1984 (at the age of 12). The source code was published in a magazine and he received $500 for it. Ashlee Vance’s Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future includes a reproduction of the page from the publication where it appeared. This is a remake of the game Blastar, made by Elon Musk made at age 12 in 1984.
Does Elon Musk pay gamers?
According to one of Elon Musk’s gamer buddies, the controversy surrounding Musk’s use of boosted characters in Diablo IV and Path of Exile 2 is a big misunderstanding. In a DM exchange on X, Musk told streamer NikoWrex that he did, indeed, pay people to play video games for him. When Musk played a game called Path of Exile 2 on a livestream, his account looked like that of an accomplished top competitor. But gamers dissected his gameplay performance in a flurry of YouTube videos and Reddit threads as amateurish — or noobish, to use the gaming vernacular.