Will PartinRepost: A ‘Dota 2’ Matchfixer’s Plea Shows What’s Really Rotten in Dota EsportsIn a global landscape rife with inequality and precarity for aspiring players, packed with gamblers and scam-artists, why do players bear…Jun 21Jun 21
Will PartinRepost: This Bank Uses Animal Crossing to Sell You Financial ServicesAlly Island closes the loop between Animal Crossing’s satirical depiction of endless indebtedness and the financial circumstances of its…Jun 21Jun 21
Will PartinRepost: ‘Artifact’ Isn’t a Game on Steam, It’s Steam in a GameImagine if we monetized the rot.Jun 21Jun 21
Will PartininbboongbboongAs Esports Explores, Will Valve’s ‘Dota 2' Be Left for Dead?in which i offer systemic critique of the dota 2 ecosystem before it was coolDec 8, 2019Dec 8, 2019
Will Partininbboongbboong‘Dota 2’ Player Arteezy on the Hunt for Big Game at the InternationalA Profile of Artour “Arteezy” BabaevNov 30, 2019Nov 30, 2019
Will PartininbboongbboongWhy bboongbboong? fffpplllrrrtttwhere esports writing goes to dieNov 25, 2019Nov 25, 2019
Will PartinRepost: On-Air With LA’s Most Wanted Man [Profile of Ice Poseidon]Some quick background here: The latest round of my portfolio lost to website migrations was all my stories (~35 or so) at Glixel and…Nov 9, 20191Nov 9, 20191
Will PartinEsports: A Living BibliographyWhen, several years ago, it dawned on me that I could research esports in graduate school, my introduction to esports studies was a…Feb 9, 2019Feb 9, 2019
Will Partininblink-sasRecent IssuesSurveillance and the Global Turn to Authoritarianism Vol 15 No 3/4 (2017)Oct 23, 2017Oct 23, 2017
Will PartinTwo Unreleased Interviews with ArteezyBack in July, I published my profile of professional Dota 2 player Artour “Arteezy” Babaev in Rolling Stone, one of a number of esports…Oct 18, 2017Oct 18, 2017