The world’s most popular esports boast millions of players and extremely healthy viewerships for their biggest tournaments. I’m of course talking about MOBAs and namely League of Legends and Dota 2. These games are amongst the most popular with viewers, mostly owing to the sheer scale of their gargantuan player bases - but they're not going to take esports mainstream. So what is?

When it comes to popular media, we love to look back towards "the good ol' days". But while this reverence for nostalgia can be great, often it also leads to some laziness.

Internationally, the world’s biggest brands are investing in esports. Locally, we’ve seen huge brand names like Samsung and Red Bull spending their marketing money on esports events. Can potential sponsors gain value from involvement in the South African scene?

What was your favourite game in your local arcade? What did you pump token into token after, mastering and etching your three initial name into the eternal scoreboards of? Was it Time Crisis and its superb mixture of light-gun duck and cover action?

Whatever your taste, there’s an anime waiting for you. Even if you’ve never watched the stuff before. We’ve got a list of anime series that are prefect for beginners.

So how would you fix the problem of gun violence in the USA, if you were in power and you didn’t happen to be an walking sack of pig testicles in orange tan spray that could barely string a coherent sentence together?

Modern videogames are finding refreshing ways to appeal to their core audience while offering new ways for less experinced players to engage with them. And it's time more started taking better notice of it.

There's a cinematic legacy attached to us that paints most South Africans as villains. Sure, there’s the utterly detestable kind of villain as seen in the racist cabal that harrassed Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon 2. But there’s also another kind of local villain that I adore seeing on the big screen: The South African gun for hire.