As the Heat faced off against the Celtics last Friday, earning the highest neilsen ratings in NBA history, another competition was breaking records as well — Major League Gaming's Spring Chamipionship.

Professional gaming, known as esports, still barely makes it into the traditional press despite a string of recent successes. When it does get mainstream coverage, the nuance is often left out. 

“Yes, people play video games for a living. Esports is a thriving business — and even a government-supported one in South Korea, where players are rock stars who earn well over six figures thanks to endorsement deals,” read one article for Time’s blog Techland last week, a few days before North America’s biggest esports event of the year, the Major League Gaming (MLG) Spring Championship in Anaheim.

Whether or not the traditional press noticed, the excitement at MLG Anaheim was high, especially when the famous Korean Starcraft: Brood War players made their first public appearance in North America. The players, famous enough to play Starcraft in airplane hangers that accomodate large crowds, are bringing their celebrity status to the west for the first time. 

While the world speculates as to the origin of the Flame virus found in Iranian computers, the New York Times confirmed that the US ordered a previous virus, Stuxnet, deployed against Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities in 2008. It was the first widespread use of cyberweapons by the US against another nation.

The article, adapted from David Sanger’s new book "Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power," confirms that both the US and Israel worked together to develop and deploy Stuxnet, which issued commands to the hardware controlling the spin rate of Iran's centrifuges, causing it to break apart.

“Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks — begun in the Bush administration and code-named Olympic Games — even after an element of the program accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 because of a programming error that allowed it to escape Iran’s Natanz plant and sent it around the world on the Internet. Computer security experts who began studying the worm, which had been developed by the United States and Israel, gave it a name: Stuxnet,” Sanger wrote.

Formula 1 continues to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Hacker collective Anonymous is threatening to attack Formula 1 related websites in support of Montreal’s student protesters, pledging to carry out cyber-attacks against all things F1 from June 7 to June 10 during the Montreal Grand Prix. The hacker collective similarly attacked the organization for holding a race in Bahrain, where a crackdown has silenced pro-democracy advocates.

"Beginning on June 7 and running through race day on June 10, Anonymous will take down all the F1 websites, dump the servers and databases - and wreck anything else F1 related we can find on the internet,” said an Anonymous spokesperson to techradar.com.

Anonymous, along with thousands of Montreal students, are standing against Quebec’s implementation of Special Law 78, enabling law enforcement to crack down on demonstrations throughout the province. In what began as a protest against tuition hikes, Montreal has become a battleground for human rights, according to Amnesty International, which condemned Special Law 78 .

In an editorial for CNN, Dr. Phillip Zimbardo, psychologist and professor emeritus at Stanford University, and artist and psychologist Nikita Duncan argue that an overuse of video games is heralding the “demise of guys” as men sacrifice meaningful relationships to spend hours playing video games.

Zimbardo and Duncan also argue that the pervasiveness of online pornography, just like video games, creates an addiction to arousal as young men sacrifice their work, studies, and relationships “in the pursuit of getting a tech based buzz."

“The excessive use of video games and online porn in pursuit of the next thing is creating a generation of risk-averse guys who are unable (and unwilling) to navigate the complexities and risks inherent to real-life relationships, school and employment,” reads the piece.

For Zimbardo and Duncan, most problematic for lovers of porn and video games (good God, there are people who like porn AND video games? Terrifying.) are left totally out of sync in romantic relationships due to an inability to build these relationships slow and gradually.