Industry-changing shifts are easier to spot in hindsight, long after hundreds of little decisions steered video games into a new epoch. The parallel rise of downloadable content, post-launch patches, and in-app purchases happened over years. Today is different. A significant amount of change is happening all at once, and you can see it in real […]
Opinion: Why We Must Open the Doors for Young Women to Participate in Esports
In this opinion piece, CSL Esports Marketing and Social Media Manager Haleigh Durkin talks about the ongoing challenges of making esports more welcoming and safe for women and girls and what we can do about it as an industry. Have you grown into someone your younger self would have respected? The question lingers in my […]
Why I Hope I Never Find My Copy Of Okage: Shadow King Despite How Much I Loved It
Just about 20 years ago, Okage: Shadow King—developed by Zener Works—was released for the PlayStation 2. A few years after that, I played through the game several times, lost it, and have never played it again since. Have you ever experienced something magical in your life that you find yourself wishing you could go back […]
Why machine learning struggles with causality
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. When you look at a baseball player hitting the ball, you can make inferences about causal relations between different elements. For instance, you can see the bat and the baseball player’s arm moving in unison, but you also know that […]
Why Can’t Blizzard Figure Out Its Esports Scene?
News that Activision Blizzard chopped its esports division by 50 employees recently is unfortunate, but at the same time, unsurprising and yet another sign that the company has again failed to understand the esports market. Reports indicate that the move mostly affects both the Overwatch and Call of Duty Leagues, but the past few years […]
Why Yakuza 0 Has The Best Opening Theme Of All Time
Duh-dun-dun – whackawhew! That’s my acapella rendition of the first four notes of the Yakuza 0 opening theme, AKA the best intro track for any video game ever. Believe me, I pay an outrageous amount of attention to this sort of thing – Persona 5’s Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There comes remarkably close […]
Why the Super Mario ‘cum pipe’ was all over Twitter
If you logged onto Twitter this Monday, you may have found yourself bewildered to see the words “the cum pipe” trending on the social media site’s side bar. Don’t know what that arrangement of words means? Good news: I figured it out and can explain it to you. It all started this morning, when a […]
Why The Xbox Wireless Headset Is A Good Option For Series X Owners
When Xbox Series X launched earlier this year (check out our review here), it delivered several improvements over its predecessor, the Xbox One. However, while one of Xbox Series X’s main legs-up over PlayStation 5 is in how all the accessories you had for Xbox One, including controllers and headsets, were instantly compatible with your new system, […]
Why The World Of Online Gaming Terrifies Me But I Want To Be A Part Of It
Though I’ve been obsessed with video games from a very young age, I have yet to get into the world of online gaming. I went through a phase in my early teens with RuneScape, and that was only because it was such a chill game in which I rarely participated in PvP combat. Most other […]
Why Accenture lists ‘digital twins’ as top-five technology trend in 2021
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. A digital twin technology is one that creates a virtual replication of a real-world entity, like a plane, manufacturing plant, or supply chain. Manufacturing companies have increasingly used digital twin technologies to accelerate digital transformation initiatives for product development, and […]