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…6 min read·4 days ago----
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…5 min read·4 days ago----
Will PartinRepost: ‘Artifact’ Isn’t a Game on Steam, It’s Steam in a GameImagine if we monetized the rot.18 min read·4 days ago----
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 cool25 min read·Dec 8, 2019----
Will Partininbboongbboong‘Dota 2’ Player Arteezy on the Hunt for Big Game at the InternationalA Profile of Artour “Arteezy” Babaev18 min read·Nov 30, 2019----
Will PartininbboongbboongWhy bboongbboong? fffpplllrrrtttwhere esports writing goes to die3 min read·Nov 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…27 min read·Nov 9, 2019--1--1
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…24 min read·Feb 9, 2019----
Will Partininblink-sasRecent IssuesSurveillance and the Global Turn to Authoritarianism Vol 15 No 3/4 (2017)2 min read·Oct 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…39 min read·Oct 18, 2017----