Author: The Sugar Gamers Team
Community is the reason Sugar Gamers was born! Our founders started Sugar Gamers through looking for people who shared a love for gaming and tech that she could identify with. Since, we have cultivated a community that is diverse in every sense. All of our content is created with our community in mind.
Technology has become integral to how we connect. and dating apps do everything they can to make it feel like a game. It’s easy to feel lost and even invisible in a sea of young sexy people on sites like Tinder, Hinge, and Bumble. Part of the fault lies with the unholy union of love and capitalism– dating apps are ultimately a business. Men, you’re the customer. Women, you’re the product. Non-binary people, they have no idea what to do with you. But the commodification of desirability aside, a lot of people are making simple mistakes on their dating profiles…
As the gaming industry continues to transform, Sugar Gamer, Jolene Brown, tackles why it’s easier with more engaging experiences. One technology that is changing the gaming landscape is cryptocurrency, which is a use-case for blockchain. As reported by Forbes on crypto, the blockchain gaming industry has grown by over 2000% in the past year. In the first quarter of 2022, more than $2.5 billion in investments were made, a significant increase from the $4 billion made throughout 2021. This unprecedented growth was met by changing gaming standards, making it all the more important to understand these new assets. Cryptocurrency is run…
The United Center in Chicago, IL is no stranger to big crowds and eruptions of cheers when it comes to physical sports, esports is no different. Chicago has hosted Counter-Strike: Global Offense, the League of Legends Quarterfinals in 2016, and now the League of Legends Championship Series 2022 where Sugar Gamer, Junae Bennett, made it onto the scene for our latest coverage. Sugar Gamers Team Member, Junae Bennett, League of Legends Championship Series 2022 The weekend of the LCS 2022 was not a pretty one, weather-wise. It was a humid Summer Saturday reaching almost 90 degrees. Then winds and rain…
After two pandemic years, the longest running and largest tabletop gaming convention in North America, Gen Con, welcomed over 50,000 people back to its winding halls. As Gen Con returned to Indie, so did the Sugar Gamers.
As we all slowly re-emerge into the post-lockdown world, Sugar Gamers hit the ground running by crafting a series of small, curated experiences to bring tech advocates and gaming aficionados back together. On Friday, April 22nd, Sugar Gamers kicked off their first post-pandemic gathering with an event called “Industry Night,” an evening of food, drinks and games specifically curated for folks to get reacquainted with their peers who have been making waves in the gaming and tech industries in Chicago over the past few years of lockdown.
Stop what you’re doing– we’re going to talk about UFOs. From as far back as human beings were keeping written records, we’ve been earnestly asking the question, “What else is out there?” Shit has been stressful since the year of our Lorde 2020. Devastating natural disasters caused by climate change, a global pandemic, actual world war, rampant social and political unrest, fear surrounding the weaponization of rapidly developing technology the likes of which we can’t even begin to fathom, Ellen Degeneres– the list goes on when it comes to reasons for losing sleep. At any other time in human history…
The gaming industry is booming and jobs aren’t in short supply, but the knowledge about is. If you ask anyone to name a job in the gaming industry they’re going to say, content creator, professional gamer, community manager, and game developer. However, there are so many other roles in the gaming industry. Let’s go through a couple of six-figure careers in the gaming industry.
Whether you want to share music with the world, color while your viewers watch or have epic fails in your favorite video game, there’s an audience out there to watch and possibly even some money to be made.