eSports – Gaming for life or gaming takes your life?

Video games have been played competitively since their birth. American organization, Twin Galaxies, tracks video game world records since 1983 and it also has a program of gaming promotions. In the early PC-era the first game to introduce us to multi-player death matches was nothing else than Doom, of course. The multiplayer-scene around Doom grew rapidly and first newsgroups, chat rooms and IRC-channels dedicated for gaming were born.