The Internet is Vain, and Smart People are Taking Advantage of It The picture above is a graph of Twitch streamer Alinity’s viewership after the…cat throwing scandal in 2019. Just look it up, I’m not going to explain it. As you can see, negative attention doesn’t mean someone is “cancelled”…

Esports Needs to be Bottom-Up, Not Top-Down (Part II) I have never been comfortable with the current arrangement that the esports industry is in. As I’ve discussed in Part I of this series, esports organizations are essentially held hostage by the will of game developers. Orgs are often forced to…

It’s very clear that the esports industry, as it currently stands, is a racket. Organizations purely focused on esports as a business are not scaling and becoming profitable the way many thought they would. This is in spite of millions of dollars in venture capital being pumped into the system…

Valve’s Artifact is Back from the Dead, but Can It Really be Saved? Absolutely. Valve made the expected decision to go back to the drawing board on their digital card game Artifact in March 2019. The somber blog post elicited feelings of heartache and validation from the card game and…

Why Ninja’s Tweet Defines the Debate on Tilt and Anger in Esports A few days ago, professional streamer and gaming phenomenon Tyler “Ninja" Blevins had this to say on being angry or emotional while playing competitive games: Obviously, there’s a lot to unpack about this tweet. It is clear (at…

WoW Classic: A Retro-Retrospective It’s not often that I change my mind about a game. It’s even less often that I change my mind and completely fall in love with it. World of Warcraft had always seemed like a game that was all flash and no substance. I first played…

Checking the internet has become a daily habit and a cornerstone of modernity. There’s a lot to see: Youtube videos, news, podcasts, e-mails, video games, Instagram pictures, Facebook and Twitter diatribes, and so on. It’s easy to just get lost in just these parts of internet culture. There’s enough information…

The East African Federation (EAF) has received a modest amount of coverage for how important it could be for the future stability of East Africa. It is a proposed unification of six East African countries: Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda, and Burundi. These nations have already made efforts in…