Daniel Condren (born 13 April 1995), better known as RTGame (formerly RTGameCrowd), is an Irish-Canadian YouTuber and live streamer.[2][3][4][5] He is known for his humorous commentary during gameplay,[6] and often plays games in unorthodox or mischievous ways.[7] He began making videos in 2011, began streaming in 2016, and experienced a surge in popularity in 2018.[2] As of 27 October 2021[update], his YouTube channel has over 2.66 million subscribers,[8] while his Twitch channel has over 1.05 million followers.[9]
Condren was born in Ireland on 13 April 1995,[10] the son of an Irish father and Canadian mother. He holds dual Irish and Canadian citizenship.[11] He studied at Trinity College in Dublin, where he earned a bachelor's degree in English literature in November 2017.[12][13] While studying there, he was a part of a gaming society, where he won a Mario Kart tournament and earned the title of "the Drift King".[14][15]
Condren created his YouTube channel on 13 August 2011 and uploaded his first video, a Terraria Let's Play, five days later.[16] In 2012, he started a video series on the game Team Fortress 2, which lasted until 2018.[17]
In early 2018, Condren moved to Tokyo to pursue a career as an English teacher.[18][19] However, his YouTube and Twitch channels unexpectedly skyrocketed in popularity shortly before he began teaching, and he decided to forego the job in order to dedicate his time to streaming, editing, and publishing videos.[20][21] The most notable videos from this time were on the games The Sims 3, Planet Coaster, and Cities: Skylines. He moved back to Ireland in the summer of 2018, and his YouTube channel hit 1 million subscribers several weeks later.[22][23] In December 2018, he joined Yogscast's annual charity event Jingle Jam, where he helped raise $3.3 million.[24][25]
Since 2020, Condren has had a video editor to help with his YouTube channel.[26] His most notable videos have included organising Minecraft building sessions for his Twitch subscribers,[2] spending 13 days (and an in-game time of 2 days) searching for a shiny Wooloo in Pokémon Sword and Shield,[27] and knocking out every NPC on a Hitman 3 level in order to stuff them all into a meat freezer and kill the entire population with a single shot into an explosive canister (which ultimately failed when the bodies formed a "meat shield").[4][5][28]