Why eSports sector is more than a game

Do the words ganking, head glitch and kappa mean anything to you? If not, it’s likely they soon will as the eSports industry continues to cast its net ever wider in the global entertainment world.

The words are a small selection of slang used in popular online games such as Call of Duty, Overwatch, and League of Legends — a vocabularyin constant parlance amongst an entertainment demographic that is well on the way to eclipsing football in global numbers.