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20 Oct 2024

Ibelin: ‘Our gamer son proved us wrong about World of Warcraft’

Mats Steen died at the age of just 25 – he’d been diagnosed with muscular dystrophy as a child.

His parents thought he had lived a lonely life, shut away in his bedroom playing computer games.

But after his death, they found out his gaming activities had made him famous online, as an heroic character called Ibelin Redmoore.

A new documentary for Netflix tells his story.