Background ESports has evolved into a hyper-competitive genre of video gaming. Emerging
evidence has linked its intense engagement with mental health problems, with implications …

Esports, or competitive video gaming competitions, bring together aspects of sports,
business, leisure, technology, and digital media, appealing to academics across multiple …

This editorial gives a short preface to the eSports industry and why this industry is unusual
for media management research–thereby describing the eSports ecosystem based on the …

Within the last decade, esports (ie, the competitive play of video games) has conquered
substantial parts of digital entertainment with annually increasing revenue and consumer …

Electronic sport has seen substantial growth in market value and popularity in the last 10
years. With this growth has come the pursuit of elite esports performance, especially from a …

Research question This study investigates the roles and responsibilities of eSports
stakeholders in ensuring eSports players' health and wellbeing through the following …

Aims: Sustainability refers to the ability of esports to survive or persist. The aim of the paper
is to explore emerging themes that support the development of a sustainable esports …

In multiplayer online games, players from different cultural backgrounds come together to
cooperate and compete in real time. Although these games are enjoyed by billions of …

Esports has seen a phenomenal explosion in popularity in recent years, gaining increasing
interest from the media, sports, and technology industries. The purpose of this study is to …

Esports are rapidly growing within academia. In HCI, earlier work explored how problematic
behaviors emerging from gender biases (eg, toxicity) negatively impact female participation …