the lowercase esports podcast

The US government officially issued its non-response to the Leffen Petition yesterday, and confirms that esports still has a ways to go before it no longer needs that special hand-holding to explain what it is.

E3's largest press conferences are over with, so in advance of tomorrow's Hype Train post, I've picked one thing from each press conference that could have relevancy to esports to highlight.

An Overwatch clone was announced by Bethesda. It's too bad it has the Quake name attached to it.

Heroes of the Storm was a cool game. I'm too tired to hope it finds success anymore.

Assigning blame and analysis aren't necessarily the same thing. Get of Thorin's back for having an opinion that's too simplistic--he is right, you know.

Facebook's deal with ATVI sees more than just promotional blitzes in the form of produced live streams, but tighter integration with Facebook for customers. Meh.

Overwatch is a lot of fun when it comes to casual, quick matches, but if the competitive format--yet to be announced--is a copy of the casual according mechanism… I'm not quite sure what that'll work out.

Watching streams and paying for skins aren't necessarily the best ways for you support esports. Sometimes you just have to go.

This podcast is late, for sure but I wanted to try to explain what my rationale is for thinking about changing from WASD to ESDF.

I watched the first week of Turner's league and talked about it until I decided that I don't really know enough to feel confident to come to a conclusion.