Esports
Shimakaze Cosplay: The Photo-Set That Arrived at the Wrong Address in the Esports DatabaseThis is a Bengali news analysis of a cosplay photo-set feature for the Azur...
MidOne in Mid: Team Liquid's Calculated GambleSeptember 25. As soon as BLAST Slam 8's official participant list went live,...
Judge, Jury and Appeals Court in One Room: Why the Marathon Pivot and the Himass Ban Are Two Faces of One StructureMore than 4.1 million signatures. A national broadcaster. And a publisher...
From a Fifth-Pull Promise to a Lifetime Ban: The Single Crack Running Through KRAFTON's Four ControversiesThe promise on the fifth pull was the marketing. "Four empty pulls and the...
Team Liquid's Mid-Lane Gamble: Nisha's Silence, MidOne's Return, and the Weight of an Unequal ComparisonHook: The Name That Should Never Have Been on That Line On September 25, from...
When the Publisher Is Also the Judge: Marathon’s PvE Turn and PUBG’s 4.1 Million SignaturesI was casting a regional PUBG Mobile bracket from a small studio in Dhaka in...
Where the Rule-Maker Also Runs the Tournament: The Real Layer of PUBG's Vietnam CrisisSeptember 25–26, 2026. On the live SteamDB graph, PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS shows a...
Whistle, Ball and Ticket in One Hand: The Long Autopsy of KRAFTON's Crisis of Trust3 AM, Mymensingh. On my desk sit two things: cold tea and an open notebook wi...
100 Percent Written Behind a 9 Percent Rate: Four KRAFTON Case Files and Esports' Trust LedgerThe fifth bundle was the contract. The in-game screen said it plainly: fail...
Inside the PUBG Controversy: KRAFTON's Governance Crisis and Its Impact on South Asian Gaming EconomyOver 4.4 million signatures were collected on a petition last week — this is...
BLAST's List, Liquid's Mid Lane, and One Unfinished QuestionOn the evening of September 25, I was scrolling the BLAST participant list,...