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Chronicle on collegiate e-sports

I was quoted in a short piece at the Chronicle of Higher Ed on the emerging collegiate e-sports scene. I found it interesting that what I think of as the newspaper for academics was taking this up.

One clarification from the piece, I do actually think gaming in college spaces is growing, my point to the reporter was more wanting to highlight that playing computer games on campus has long been a part of student life and we’re now seeing that get formalized (something Jesse Sell and I also discussed in our GDC lecture on the subject last year).

How videogames are becoming university-approved sports