Ep. 23: 'Ghost Recon Wildlands' and eSports Analytics

Achievement Oriented

The Ringer's Ben Lindbergh and Jason Concepcion talk to writer Reid McCarter and lecturer in video game studies Hugo Montembeault about the dark side of Ubisoft's 'Ghost Recon Wildlands,' realism in shooters, and big-budget games' ongoing struggle to depict real-world problems in fictional form (0:30). Then they bring on 'Super Smash Bros. Melee' analyst Daniel Lee and 'League of Legends' analyst Jeffrey Liang for a primer on the metagame and the past, present, and future of eSports stats (28:15).

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