25 Facts About Stevie Case

Stevie Case is known for competing in the first-person shooter game Quake in the late 1990s, as well as contributing professionally to the video game industry.

Stevie Case was the first professional gamer signed to the Cyberathlete Professional League.

Stevie Case left the company to manage Monkeystone Games with former Ion Storm employees Romero and Tom Hall.

Stevie Case's parents are a science teacher and a social worker, and she has a younger brother named Andy.

Stevie Case attended Olathe East High School from 1991 to 1994.

Stevie Case later attended the University of Kansas in hopes of getting into law school.

Stevie Case joined Kimzey's team, Impulse 9, and began competing under the name KillCreek.

Stevie Case was twenty years old at the time she won the rematch in 1997, and beating one of the co-creators of Quake at his own game brought her a lot of publicity.

Stevie Case gained a sponsor in computer mouse manufacturer SpaceTec IMC that year, and her victory against Romero received coverage in Rolling Stone.

Angel Munoz, the founder of the Cyberathlete Professional League, convinced Stevie Case to join his league in July 1997, becoming its first signed professional gamer.

Stevie Case eventually became one of the league's original founders.

Stevie Case competed in the first all-female Quake tournament that year, coming in second behind Kornelia Takacs.

Between 1998 and 2000, Stevie Case authored three strategy guide books for Prima Games: Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Buck Bumble, and Daikatana.

Stevie Case was hired at Ion Storm in the summer of 1997 as a video game tester.

Stevie Case received further press coverage, appearing on the March 2000 cover of PC Accelerator, and being featured as one of the "Next Game Gods" in the November 2000 issue of PC Gamer.

Stevie Case was approached by Playboy to appear in a nude pictorial, based on an interview she did in the Los Angeles Times.

Stevie Case was still involved in the Cyberathlete Professional League in some capacity.

Stevie Case eventually transitioned into being CPL's "Master of Ceremonies", and in 1999, Case joined the CPL's board of directors.

Stevie Case left Ion Storm in January 2001 to follow Romero to his new company, Monkeystone Games, which was founded in August 2001.

Stevie Case was credited on titles like Monkeystone's Red Faction port for the N-Gage.

Stevie Case recalled receiving the opportunity to leave game development when one of her contacts approached her about a potential junior sales position at his workplace.

Stevie Case served as Senior Director of Business Development at Live Gamer, and joined PlaySpan in 2010 as vice president of sales.

Stevie Case is listed as a participant in SheEO, a nonprofit supporting the funding of female entrepreneurs, as well as the female investor group 37 Angels.

Stevie Case dated Quake player Tom "Entropy" Kimzey, who was a University of Kansas student and a member of Impulse 9.

Stevie Case went on to marry a director of product development at THQ, and had a child with him.