Mon. Dec 23rd, 2024
Self-confessed ‘video game nerd’ Dermot Smurfit Jr aims new firm at confluence of gambling and gaming

Paydirt Games products will roll out on mobile first, and then on VR headsets

Dermot Smurfit Jr says the ambition is to ‘challenge the traditional video games industry’

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In the early 1980s, when Dermot Smurfit was a boy of eight, his dad bought him a ZX Spectrum home computer as a Christmas present not long after its release.

“That was probably the beginning of my love affair with computing and video games,” Dermot reckons.

By Xplayer