With eSports having gained a lot of legitimacy as a serious competitive sport, it has also been beset by some of the negative aspects that plague the conventional sporting world. This includes illegal betting, player exploitation and the use of performance-enhancing drugs such as Adderall.

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With the huge E3 gaming event about to be underway, all of our favourite game publishers are announcing – and teasing – some very exciting new titles. Never before has there been this much buzz for mobile platform games. Game developers have certainly upped the ante with the announcement of The Elder Scrolls: Blades, Command and Conquer: Rivals and Gears POP!

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Never has there been a better era to break into the game design field, given the fact that the gaming industry has grown so formidably that it now rivals even the film industry. It is a technological niche that has never stopped growing since its very conception, with most households owning at the very least one dedicated gaming console. But also take into account that games are available for mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets, computers and various other platforms, turning the act of gaming into an almost daily activity.

The interest and fascination with computer and video games began almost as soon as the first computers appeared. The roots of this kind of gaming can be traced back to 1958 when a physicist named William Higinbotham, in conjunction with technician Robert Dvorak, created a very simple tennis game called Tennis for Two as an interactive demonstration for the Brookhaven National Laboratory. The game was a huge success and clearly demonstrated the message that William Higinbotham was trying to display – that scientific pursuits are relevant to ordinary society. Shortly after Tennis for Two there came Spacewar! which was released in 1961-1962 and from that time onwards computer and video games only increased in popularity.