Following the Trail of eSports: The Multidisciplinary Boom of Research on the Competitive Practice of Video Games

Despite eSports' relatively long history, the attention paid by academia to this phenomenon has been much more recent and is still in an embryonic state in all of the views. The scientific production has grown because of the global success associated with the widespread growth of live events an...

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