jpg All my regular esports tournaments are on cooldown at the moment, so I ve had my head peeked around the corner of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds for a bit. It s good! I like getting into a new scene and deciding which team to support. I like how it gradually builds across the course of a match from something I m not really watching in the background to the engrossing final fight. I like that the best way they ve figured out how to quantify victory is to make them play dozens of matches in a single weekend and hand the reward to the best statistical average.

I could not be more creeped out by the eye-tracking that they sometimes put on the screen.

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