By Alex Lockwood, Lifestyle Writer
| September 10, 2025
Fierce competition is heating up in the Huskie Gaming Club, as the popular shooter game “Call of Duty” is joining the lineup of competitive games for the spring semester.
The team will be organized by junior sports management major and former “League...
With the fall semester around the corner, NIU Esports has made several changes and additions to make this semester at the Esports Arena more exciting than ever before.
NIU ESPORTS DIRECTOR CONNER VAGLE RESIGNS
The most significant change...
By Alex Lockwood, Lifestyle Writer
| February 6, 2025
Esports is a profession and hobby that has been growing steadily over the past few years and features some pretty popular games.
An esport is a competition where several video game enthusiasts compete in heavily competitive tournaments with popular...
By Yari Tapia, Lifestyle Writer
| October 17, 2024
NIU Esports invited students for a night of retro gaming this homecoming week at the “Huskie Rumble” event where gamers could try a variety of old school games.
The event ran from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday in Altgeld Hall. Gamers could...
Video games are extremely popular and only growing in appeal to different people around the world, as different ways to play the games are made.
In collaboration with NIU Esports, the Asian American Resource Center (AARC) invited students to attend...
DeKALB – In collaboration with NASCAR, NIU Esports invited both casual and hardcore fans of Rocket League to an event open to all visitors for a chill afternoon of gaming.
Released back in 2015 by Epic Games, Rocket League became one of the bigger...
DeKALB – For the first time this year NIU is partnering with Dr. Levi Harrison, the creator of the Fierce Gamer app, and has given two NIU students the chance to receive the Fierce Gamer Scholarship.
Harrison is an orthopedic surgeon, physician,...
An Esports player lost $10,000 over a political statement made during a postgame interview on Oct. 6. Ng Wai Chung, who plays under the handle Blitzchung, shouted “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times,” according to CBS. This followed a Hearthstone...
Video games are among the quickest-evolving art forms in popular culture due to the constant improvement of the genre. The industry has gone from stacking blocks in “Tetris” to grand worlds of multiplayer games like “League of Legends.” For students...
