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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Lucas Zhang / DFP Staff

Gaming the System: Keeping gaming communities safe is worth expelling even the best players

Nick Speranza April 22, 2022
Frankly, the amount of people who are willing to welcome Won back to esports with open arms disgusts me.
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Gaming the System: The equal-opportunity fighting game

Nick Speranza March 1, 2022
The fighting game community, or FGC, has been called the most racially diverse community in video games, and offers a large amount of opportunities to Black creators, talent and players. 
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Being told as a ‘girl gamer’ to go back to the kitchen in 2022

Melina Nguyen January 31, 2022
Gameplay is no longer objectively fun and interactive with the ongoing sexist comments many girls receive.
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Gaming the System: Should battle passes be the future of video games?

Nick Speranza January 25, 2022
The battle pass model epitomizes everything wrong with the future of tech.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Gaming the System: Balancing enthusiasm with hate in inter-regional esports beef

Nick Speranza December 9, 2021
Inflammatory trash-talk in international video game chatrooms can create friendly competition — as well as a source of hate speech.
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BU Gaming Club, Student Government collaborate to host partially in-person Valorant tournament

Molly Farrar April 7, 2021
BU gamers will compete in a global esports competition Saturday through a BU Gaming Club event.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Gaming the System: Behind closed doors, esports perpetuate sexual assault

Nick Speranza March 17, 2021
Esports and video games are a great thing, and their communities have the potential to reflect that even more. However, they demonstrate with particular clarity the systemic factors that facilitate an epidemic of sexual assault. They are the same factors that plague our world outside of gaming, including our own lives as Boston University students.
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