In my day, video games were not spectator sports, star players were not celebrities and “professional gamer” was definitely not a legitimate career.But in the intervening years between my day and the present, there’s apparently been a big shakeup in the world of “esports,” or online games: According to a report released yesterday by the market research firm IHS, people watched 2.4 billion hours of video games in 2013 — almost double the year before.
www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/06/03/the-internet-spent-a-whopping-2-4-billion-hours-watching-competitive-video-games-last-year/