The British Esports Association will create a campus with classrooms and performance arena at the Riverside. A centre dedicated to competitive electronic gaming is set to open in a former car showroom in Sunderland. Competitive gaming, where teams of players pit their skills against rivals online, has tournaments with prizes of millions of pounds and attracts huge audiences across the globe. Esports differs from standard video gaming in that it involves organised teams competing against each other, often with spectators. Is gaming the future ?

