We’ve seen big growth in e-sports in the last several years as platforms like Twitch have made it much easier to both broadcast and spectate, easier to become a fan or perhaps even imagine yourself competing one day. Growth moments are opportunities to look back at history and think about where we are going. Part…
I’ve been thinking about writing this post for awhile. I hadn’t before because, as perhaps the title suggests, it never quite seemed I was on solid enough ground to. I remember hearing over the years how people felt once they got tenure. A sigh of relief, a feeling of recognition, the sense they had made…
I was recently interviewed for Deutschlandfunk (radio) for a long-form piece they were doing on e-sports. Perhaps of interest to those of you who can understand German! “Vom Sport mit Maus und Tastatur“
I was fortunate to get to be a part of the first dedicated summit on e-sports at GDC this year. It’s been a long time coming in my opinion and big kudos to Lil Chen, Patrick Miller, Frank Lantz, and Rod Breslau for organizing it. Jesse Sell and I presented on collegiate e-sports and a…
As many of us who’ve been researching/working in/following the e-sports scene for years now know, the issues around gender there are complex and often quite fraught. Intel made a big announcement several months back that they were going to supporting serious initiatives on diversity in a variety of domains. It just so happens they are…