"The games developer stereotype is a bespectacled geek programmer with questionable personal hygiene and few social skills," wrote Jason Hill in the Age.com. However, Hill noted at least one exception in computer game creator Jason Rubin. Rubin is the wunderkind computer game developer of the "Crash" series, which sold more than twenty million units worldwide, even breaking into the difficult to probe Japanese market with a million copies sold. Indeed, since out-profiting the movie industry in 2001, the multi-billion dollar games industry is no longer considered geek or niche. Joshua Gliddon, writing in the Bulletin EdDesk, echoed Hill's sentiments. "Rubin doesn't look like your stereotypical computer-game guy," Gliddon noted. He "comes across as a media hipster, right down to the supple, tooled-leather shoes, funky hair-do and slightly belled blue jeans." Rubin left the computer-game-guy image behind with his early garage projects, written with collaborator Andy Gavin. Friends since...