Chess has been around for a very long time and is considered one of the ultimate competitive games, pitting two people against each other in a strategic battle that is near impossible to perfect. At ...

Esports didn’t start as a stadium-filling spectacle with booming walkout music and sponsor logos everywhere. It grew out of smaller, scrappier competitive scenes, and the “crowd” was whoever could fit ...

On a flight home around Thanksgiving, Laurie Lehman got to chatting with the couple sitting next to her. The esports manager for the Albuquerque public school district was off the clock. But she ...

Tucked away amid an unassuming mix of mid-rise office buildings in a quiet part of Berlin is an entire floor that serves as the headquarters for one of the world’s biggest professional gaming ...

In August, the first ever Esports World Cup concluded. It featured more than 1,500 players and a prize pool of $60 million. Esports involves teams or inviduals competing against each other in ...

I first started trying to get an esports program at my school in 2011. At the time, there was a lot of resistance around the misconception that violent video games make violent kids, despite all the ...

To become sustainable in the long term, esports organizations are experimenting with an ever-expanding variety of revenue streams. Last week, gaming streamer Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm tweeted that all ...

This series of Playable Futures articles considers how the design, technology, people, and theory of video games are informing and influencing the wider world. You can find all previous Playable ...

The world's largest gaming festival has officially kicked off. More than 1,500 gamers from all over the globe have flocked to Saudi Arabia for the first ever "Esports World Cup," where they are ...

Esports catches a different set of people who become student-athletes. While there is some overlap of folks who played both traditional sports and Esports growing up, more often than not, Esports team ...

Gary Denham is the Founder and CEO of Wamba Technologies and developing the patented Esports platform with in-game wagering, Gamers Oasis. The popularity of online esports is soaring, making the ...