The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
A player holds an Xbox controller.

Experts discuss gender, the body in esports

By Patrick Swain, Staff Writer • February 10, 2022
Keung Yoon Bae, an assistant professor of Korean studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology, discussed the politics of bodies and gender in esports on Wednesday as part of the Asia Pop speaker series hosted by Pitt’s Asian Studies Center.
Pitt students at Saturday’s Battle for Pittsburgh gaming tournament in the Connolly Ballroom at Alumni Hall.

Esports comes to Pitt in the Battle for Pittsburgh Gaming Tournament

By Darin Fields, Staff Writer • November 15, 2021
The esports boom made its way to campus this weekend as Pitt gamers gathered in the Connolly Ballroom at Alumni Hall on Saturday for a day full of competition and community in the first Battle for Pittsburgh Gaming Tournament.
(Illustration by Elise Lavallee | Contributing Editor)

esports make natural addition to Olympics

By Thomas Wick | Columnist • February 11, 2018

It’s the 2026 Olympic Winter Games. Two combatants pick up pieces of plastic laced with electrical current and various input chambers. They do not face each other directly, but they fight on a screen...

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