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Renowned for its ease of use and relatively lag-free video quality, Twitch.tv is the current undisputed king of streaming platforms for video gamers. In January 2018, the site had an average 962,000 total viewers at any given moment across its hosted broadcasts. While the majority of its content is users streaming video game…

Esports has undergone rapid expansion over the past two decades, and this quick growth hasn’t been without its share of controversy. As the scale and profile of the competitive gaming scene has grown, so too have the coverage and impact of social and criminal misdeeds. Some scandals are so large that they achieved…

Since the release of the first arcade fighting games, the fighting game format has always attracted competitive players, making fighters the ideal candidate for esports tournaments. A genre where competitors compete against each other often in a one-on-one environment, there is little reliance on team play as is generally the case with Shooters,…

Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) games are often seen as the driving force behind competitive gaming. Although there are less titles with an active fan base in play than in other genres of esports, those that do have a following tend to bring in far more attention and revenue than any other games…

Shooting games require split-second reactions and co-ordinated team play, two factors that make the genre an ideal format for esports competition. When high-ranking teams go head to head, pre-planning and deciding tactics before each round are as essential to winning as the ability to adapt mid-game. Shooters most often played on PC, due…

As the video games market has grown across the globe, so have esports and the prize pools available for competitors. This added financial incentive raises the stakes for players and viewers, and is a driving factor in the increasing number of aspiring and current professional players. on esports focuses on the current state…

The earliest recorded organized, competitive video games tournament took place at Stanford University in October 1972. The game lineup consisted solely of Spacewar! Two dozen students took part, there was free beer, and first prize was a year’s subscription to Rolling Stone magazine. More than four decades later, esports is an industry that…