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The national Overwatch Digital Schoolhouse Esports Tournament is now in its third year of play and since 2017 we’ve seen the competition undergo a huge transformation - not only through volume of participants, but its strengthening impact in careers education.

This week saw the launch of Digital Schoolhouse in academic instiutions across the UK for the new school year.  We chose to focus upon the ‘buzzworthy’ topic of e-safety; an issue that remains ever topical for the video games industry.  The importance of discussing the theme of e-safety stems from the fact that it lies at the core of the continuing attempt to strike a balance between the government’s desire to both make the UK the best digital economy in the world, while also making the UK a safe place to live, work and play.

Digital Schoolhouse powered by PlayStation, and The Duke of York Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award (iDEA) are proud to be collaborating this year, as part of the National Esports Tournament that concluded earlier this month, at Gfinity’s arena in Fulham Broadway.

“Every industry now needs programmers…it is changing every industry, so the demand has sky rocketed”