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A Close-Up Look at the Global Phenomenon of Competitive Video Gaming
Esports is one of the fastest growing—and most cutthroat—industries in the world. A confluence of technology, culture, and determination has made this possible. Players around the world compete for millions of dollars in prize money, and companies like Amazon, Coca Cola, and Intel have invested billions. E A Close-Up Look at the Global Phenomenon of Competitive Video Gaming
Esports is one of the fastest growing—and most cutthroat—industries in the world. A confluence of technology, culture, and determination has made this possible. Players around the world compete for millions of dollars in prize money, and companies like Amazon, Coca Cola, and Intel have invested billions. Esports events have sold out Los Angeles’s Staples Center, Seoul’s World Cup Stadium, and Seattle’s KeyArena. Hundreds of people have dedicated their lives to gaming, sacrificing their education, relationships, and even their bodies to compete, committing themselves with the same fervor of any professional athlete. In Good Luck Have Fun, author Roland Li talks to some of the biggest names in the business and explores the players, companies, and games that have made it to the new major leagues.
Follow Alexander Garfield as he builds Evil Geniuses, a modest gaming group, in his college dorm into a global, multimillion-dollar eSports empire. Learn how Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill made League of Legends the world’s most successful eSports league and most popular PC game, on track to make over $1 billion a year. See how Twitch pivoted from a video streaming novelty into a $1 billion startup on the back of professional gamers. And dive into eSports’ dark side: drug abuse, labor troubles, and for each success story, hundreds of people who failed to make it big. These are the stories of the rise of an industry and culture that challenge what we know about sports, games, and competition. …more
Review ebook Good Luck Have Fun: The Rise of eSports
This book was an easy read and I imagine it will appeal to all the gamer geeks out there. I used to be one myself before I discovered reading was actually more fun. My main problem with this book is the lack of a well-defined structure which, if it did have one, would enable me to really get into it more easily. It introduces a host of gaming legends, team managers and top teams willy-nilly and as a result, feels like a really long magazine article. It would have been better to build the book fo This book was an easy read and I imagine it will appeal to all the gamer geeks out there. I used to be one myself before I discovered reading was actually more fun. My main problem with this book is the lack of a well-defined structure which, if it did have one, would enable me to really get into it more easily. It introduces a host of gaming legends, team managers and top teams willy-nilly and as a result, feels like a really long magazine article. It would have been better to build the book focused on a few central players and wrap the rest of the narrative around them. The good parts are when the author gets into the real game action, especially at crucial stages of important tournaments, where we read about amazing moves, players buckling under pressure, teammates blowing up at each other. Unfortunately, Li doesn’t do that nearly enough.
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