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Although Benny Torres recently graduated from college with a degree in psychology and advertising, he got his current job simply by being himself: a 23-year-old guy who’s totally into videogames.
Torres spends most of his waking hours playing the latest games and reading all the latest gaming news and gossip online. And since last year, he’s been doing it from a cubicle in the Chicago headquarters of ad agency Leo Burnett.
Torres first joined Burnett as an intern last June—and quickly became known as the go-to guy on videogames. Creatives on the Nintendo account turned to Torres for answers on everything from the key plot points of games to the types of fonts that were used in them. By fall, he had a full-time staff […]
Original post by Willow Duttge, Portfolio.com
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