What is ARC?

The Arena Research Cluster (ARC) is a global community of researchers from across academia and industry who work with esports and sports analytics. ARC provides the following key services to the international esports community.

Access to latest reserach

Through a vetted interdisciplinary research literature database that is continually updated by the ARC community

Contact information

People and company directories

Knowledge exchange

Platform of knowledge exchange and dissemination, through the ARC website and newsletter

News dissemination

Quarterly newsletters, providing an overview of the latest research in esports, and disseminating news and white papers from the ARC community

Research highlights

Research spotlights and whitepapers

Collaborative events

Joint planning and execution of conferences and workshops

Blog and News

Check out our latest posts

Papers you need to read: June 2021

Check out these interesting publications. Esports in HCI The authors of this paper present a new Special Interest Group that aims to identify intersections between HCI and esports and to establish holistic discussions about relevant Read more…

Papers you need to read: March 2021

Check out these interesting papers. Boosting: Rank and skill deception in esports An extremely interesting paper that brings forth and analyses a lesser known issue in competitive video games, boosting.  Boosting, as the authors put Read more…

Get in Touch

Contact ARC - Visit us or send us an email

Find us

The Ron Cooke Hub
Heslington, York, YO10 5GE, UK

Contact us

arc@york.ac.uk

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