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.
The inside of the Vibrant Media Lab in the Cathedral of Learning.

Vibrant Media Lab offers glimpse into first game system

By Vaibhav Gupta, For The Pitt News • March 18, 2019
The group, the Vibrant Media Lab, will present one of the earliest-created game consoles in history — the Magnavox Odyssey — to Pitt students on April 5 in order to promote a wider understanding of the history and culture behind video games along with the VML’s work for the past two years.
(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...

(Illustration by Raka Sarkar | Senior Staff Illustrator)

Microtransactions mar gaming experience

By Thomas Wick | Columnist • December 4, 2017

A short time ago in an industry not so far away, the gaming empire Electronic Arts released a video game called “Star Wars Battlefront II” — but gamers should keep their wallets handy if they want...

"Star Wars Battlefront II." Lucasarts for Xbox (also for PlayStation 2, PC and PSP), $49.99. Rating: T (Teen). TNS

Hold out on video game hype culture, wait for results

By Thomas Wick | Columnist • March 23, 2017

When two gamers took their players on a virtual journey to a far-off video game planet, they expected to be able to see and interact with each other’s player in the game. To their surprise, they saw...

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