War as eSport: the politics of PlayerUnknown's Battleground
- Written by Lachlan MacDowall, Lecturer, Screen and Cultural Studies, School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne
eSports, which includes online multiplayer games like PUGB, is an industry forecast to reach nearly US$1 billion in revenue by 2019.YouTube
One of the most popular video games of the last few years is a war game, PUBG, or PlayerUnknown’s Battleground. In this online multi-player game, 100 competitors parachute onto an island strewn with...
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