For years, esports was often described as an emerging opportunity: a growing entertainment category, a promising marketing channel, or a glimpse into the future of media. That future […]
Gaming Is Growing Again. So Why Does the Industry Feel More Fragile Than Ever?
For years, the games industry was built around a comforting assumption: growth would solve almost everything. More players would enter the market. Those players would spend more hours […]
RRQ Hoshi Remains the Heartbeat of MPL Indonesia Viewership in S17
RRQ Hoshi’s journey in MPL Indonesia Season 17 was not the ending the Kingdom had hoped for. For the second time in MPL Indonesia history, RRQ Hoshi had […]
The Illusion of Control: Why Game Rating Systems Are More Complicated Than They Look
In theory, a game rating system is simple. A label appears on a box—or a digital storefront—telling you who a game is for, what it contains, and whether […]
The Social Media Age Limit Debate: Safety, Freedom, and the Future of Childhood
For much of the internet’s history, the question of age has been treated almost like a joke. Every website had the same checkbox: “Yes, I confirm I am over […]
50 Billion Downloads Later, Mobile Gaming Isn’t Slowing Down in 2025
If you blinked in 2025, you might have missed 95,000 mobile game downloads. Not per day.Not per hour. Per minute. That’s roughly 1,583 downloads every second—which means by the time […]
If Science Is Clear, Why Do We Still Blame Video Games?
For more than two decades, researchers have asked a simple question and reached an increasingly consistent answer: violent video games do not cause violent behavior. Meta-analyses, longitudinal studies, […]
How RRQ Dota 2 Built a Legacy That Shaped Indonesian Esports
Chapter 1 – The Rise of the King: From DotA to Dota 2 Before Rex Regum Qeon became a giant in Indonesian esports, it was born from something […]
The Myth That Refuses to Die: Video Games and Violence
When tragedy strikes — a school shooting, a violent act by a young person — we often look for something, anything, to blame. And all too often, fingers […]
How Saudi Arabia Is Redefining Esports Through the EWC
In the heart of Riyadh this summer, a seismic shift is taking place—not just in competitive gaming, but in how the world views esports, youth culture, and even […]