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- Young Korean conductor and keen gamer Chin Sol combined her hobby with her day job by launching a start-up, Flasic, that puts on concerts of video-game music
- Flasic turns game themes into orchestral scores for performance. They started with Blizzard Entertainment’s Starcraft, and recently signed up Lineage’s NCSoft
Here's an alternate profession for female gamers... but one that also highlights terrible gender stereotypes. Josh paid US$4.50 an hour to play games with three different women, and learned their stories along the way. The whole experience sounds quite unsettling, to be honest. He was showered with praise and flattery, while his (expert) paid partners defended and healed him in the games. Even the way he selected a companion was extremely sexist: A parade of women offered their services in a chatroom, while Josh's avatar sat in a spot called "the Boss Couch."
Here's an alternate profession for female gamers... but one that also highlights terrible gender stereotypes. Josh paid US$4.50 an hour to play games with three different women, and learned their stories along the way. The whole experience sounds quite unsettling, to be honest. He was showered with praise and flattery, while his (expert) paid partners defended and healed him in the games. Even the way he selected a companion was extremely sexist: A parade of women offered their services in a chatroom, while Josh's avatar sat in a spot called "the Boss Couch."
It turns out that recent Chinese victories in esports tournaments has inspired fans to take on the sports themselves, in a country where 30% of esports fans are women -- far higher than the US, where just 17% of esports fans are women. Female players are so common in China that there might be a different barrier: Streaming is so lucrative that some talented players are shunning esports teams to strike it out on their own. "You earn much more and there’s less pressure," says former pro Siqi "Nara" Chen.
It turns out that recent Chinese victories in esports tournaments has inspired fans to take on the sports themselves, in a country where 30% of esports fans are women -- far higher than the US, where just 17% of esports fans are women. Female players are so common in China that there might be a different barrier: Streaming is so lucrative that some talented players are shunning esports teams to strike it out on their own. "You earn much more and there’s less pressure," says former pro Siqi "Nara" Chen.