Young Warriors Gather for Battles in Cyberspace

july 24, 2003  10:01 am
Young Warriors Gather for Battles in Cyberspace
This is a new kind of war being played out on hundreds of thousands of computers. And the stakes are not just street cred but money and prizes and a certain kind of rabid fame inherent to a weird subculture like the one surrounding computer gaming. This is Team Forsaken, one of the Houston area’s best gaming clans, and Jennifer Mathieu watches as they humiliate their friends publicly, shake their asses in other people's faces, wear baseball caps at all times and play video games for hours on end.