video games
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Gaming Culture
UGA Esports Club’s Only Female Leader Talks About Being a Woman in Competitive Gaming
When a young Hannah Suarez first stumbled upon her older sister’s gaming console at age 11, she never realized that her love for playing games on a big television screen would eventually lead to a bittersweet experience as a woman in competitive gaming. I had to branch my sub-community off…
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Gaming Culture
Competitive Comradery: Members of Esports@UGA Build Friendships On, Off Screen
Esports has broken into mainstream media and become a $1 billion industry over the past few years. Leagues have formed around individual games, like Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege and Overwatch, attracting six-figure investments that finance teams or individual players. This has led to the formation of smaller groups and…
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Athens-Clarke County
How Independent Game Stores Are Surviving in the Age of Amazon
It’s a difficult time for brick-and-mortar stores in the United States, as they struggle to contend with online competitors like Amazon. But video game retailers like GameStop also have to compete with digital downloads ⏤ whether they be from PC game launchers, like Steam and the Epic Games Store, or…
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Gaming Culture
DreamHack Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary in Atlanta
DreamHack is a video game convention that takes place in several cities across the world multiple times a year. This year is the convention’s 25th anniversary. Hi-Rez Studios, makers of Smite and Paladins from Alpharetta, Georgia, held their own expo inside and revealed their new game: a team shooter called…
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Gaming Culture
Local Video Game Developers Show Their Games at SIEGE2019
SIEGE2019 is a video game convention where local student and independent game developers can show off their games, network and attend workshops to sharpen their skills. This year, SIEGE2019 took place at Kennesaw State University. Josiah Byler is a senior majoring in journalism in the Grady College of Journalism and…
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Gaming Culture
Playing Video Games In VR Can Improve Your Health
For the past 15 or so years, video game developers have been playing around with incorporating fitness. The latest wave of fitness-based gaming has come in the form of virtual reality. Josiah Byler shows how scientists at the VR Health Institute can equate playing video games in VR to exercise.…
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Athens-Clarke County
The New Sp0rt L@ndscap3: UGA eSports, Industry Continue Growth
ATHENS — The University of Georgia esports club started with 50-60 people in 2015. Three years later, the club’s grown to more than 300 members and multiple teams for different video games. Once just thought of as a hobby, esports is evolving into a legitimate phenomenon both in the…
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In-Depth
Esports at UGA Hosts Overwatch Tryouts
Esports at UGA recently hosted tryouts for its competitive Overwatch team. The student organization is forming a new team for the popular online game. The last day of Overwatch tryouts was Sept. 27. William Rohrbach, a freshman biology student who was trying out for the team, played his first game…
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In-Depth
Gaming Center Coming to Tate
Students will soon be able to relax and play video games at the Tate Student Center. A planned video arcade may open as early as this fall, according to Stan Jackson, director of student affairs communications and marketing initiatives at UGA. Jackson told Grady Newsource the arcade might be located across…