The Passion Tax: What Esports Owes Its Own Workers
She has the credentials, the languages, the relationships, and the years. She is living off her savings. Anastasija…
Esports World Cup da Riyadh a Parigi: una guerra sposta il torneo
Ci sono compagnie aeree che cancellano rotte. Non per una presa di posizione. Non per un comunicato stampa.…
Bugha’s Disqualification and the Rules Nobody Wrote Down
There’s a specific kind of confusion that comes from doing something everyone does, and then being told it…
PashaBiceps’ Knife and the Logic of the Digital Relic
A knife that has never cut anything changed hands twice in eleven years, and both times someone cried.…
A Nineteen-Year-Old and the Fiction of the Minor Leagues
Lee Hyuk-kyu won his second tournament MVP award before most people had learned to spell his name correctly.…
Digital Performance and the Blindness of Contextual Irony
In a recent broadcast of the Naraka: Bladepoint Spring Tournament, a commentator known as Zha Zha appeared on…