Free to Play é um documentário que segue três gamers profissionais ao redor do mundo enquanto eles disputam o prêmio de um milhão de dólares no primeiro Campeonato Internacional de Dota 2. Produzido pela Valve, as imagens do filme apresentam os desafios e sacrifícios exigidos dos jogadores para que atinjam o nível mais alto.
Um jovem estudante universitário tenta se aproximar de uma aluna de ciência da computação depois de se sentir atraído por suas habilidades num jogo de RPG online.
Esta comédia de eSports escandalosamente engraçada segue V (Paris Berelc), uma jogadora competitiva cujas habilidades impressionantes lhe rendem uma bolsa de estudos na faculdade e um lugar nos Betas, uma equipe dominada por homens.
Fãs, especialistas e criadores explicam o sucesso do jogo League of Legends, que evoluiu de uma versão demo gratuita a uma grande referência mundial dos e-sports.
A speculation mini-documentary by Rory 'Rez' Hunter and Adam 'Ginog' Watson looking at the future of Call of Duty featuring Callum 'Swanny' Swan.
Este documentário analisa com franqueza nosso complexo e problemático relacionamento com os videogames do ponto de vista dos gamers — e de pais cada vez mais preocupados.
GAMECHANGERS: Dreams of Blizzcon enters the unexplored realm of professional esports through the eyes of two of the world’s top StarCraft II players.
Magic: The Gathering is the most popular collectible card game in the world. At Magic's Pro Tour, players from around the globe compete to prove who is the best. They are writers, game theorists, jewelry apprentices, female pioneers, and teenage geniuses.
In thirty years, the video game has conquered an increasingly wide audience. Drawing on the recent work of economists, sociologists, experts and interviewing major players in this field, this investigation unravels the overwhelming domination of this new mass media.
For one of the longest-running game franchises in history, Street Fighter creators Capcom needed something exceedingly special to accompany the release of their 25th anniversary edition of the game. AREA 5 produced, shot, edited, and finished a documentary that spans three countries, more than two decades, and tells the story of how a game not only birthed an entire genre, but changed the lives of a generation.
It is a story of an underdog that hopes to win an esports tournament and gain his son’s trust. Main character is a middle-aged game streamer and not a successful one: his audience is constantly making fun of him. He’s behind his rent, ex-wife is taking a full custody over his son. The only hope is an FPS tournament with a prize pool of 5,000,000 RMB that will change his life for the better.
A story of a single mom who would love to raise her son of 15 to the best of her abilities. Her son is bright and a model student. However, when she found out that her son is now participating in the E-sports tournament, she is severely disappointed. She wants to stop her son from this career path and she chooses to set up her own team to beat him and end his chance of being a gamer. Is the person who won the game, really the winner?
A retired cyber game player recruits a team of rookies to play in the national league.
Two professional European gamers navigate the exploding world of electronic sports. Packed with youthful ambition and impeded by reality, the ProGamers struggle to thrive in the fledgling industry of eSports.
In 2011, a computer game tournament in Columbus, Ohio became a battle of two nations. The Foreigner takes you behind the scenes as four elite South Korean pro gamers annihilate the competition, and one American fights back. Witness the event that changed gaming forever.
The film explores the sub-culture of pro-gaming through the lives of North America’s top e-sports team, Team Evil Geniuses, as they tour the world competing for money, fame, and glory. Chris “Huk” Loranger, is Canada’s finest e-sports export and self-proclaimed diva; Greg “IdrA” Fields, a legend in the Starcraft community, now disillusioned with his once passion; Geoff “iNcontroL” Robinson, a former college football captain turned pro-gamer now at a crossroads in his career, and his bride to be, a Miss USA pageant contestant. Evil Geniuses’ CEO, Alex Garfield, is faced with the growing pains of being on the leading edge of a burgeoning multi-billion dollar industry; balancing sponsors and managing egos; all while trying to keep his own life in check.
Liquid Rising is a crowd funded feature film-length documentary by Michael Krukar about the StarCraft eSports team "Team Liquid" and community.
Filmmaker Robin Benger covered 14 wars in 24 countries as a veteran TV producer but nothing prepared him for the discovery that war was being waged in the basement of his own home.
He discovered that "first person shooter" games, and violence-centred gaming, are taking over as the entertainment of choice for a whole generation of (mostly) teenage males. Entering into that world, he began filming in cyber-cafes, games manufacturers‚ conventions, and mega gaming tournaments, even tracking down the designer of the very game causing him so much friction with his own son.
Watch the first-ever global LAN tournament of the fast-growing competitive Team Fortress 2 scene! A groundbreaking community fundraiser gathered enough funds to send two full 6-man teams from America to Europe to compete for a global title. This documentary features incredible in-game footage, interviews from players, shoutcasters and spectators, and an introduction to the basics of competitive TF2.
