News: Center for Gaming Research
![Lied Library](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/Library_D65847_22.jpg?itok=JUjykjMc)
Researcher shares his findings on the motivations and views of industry players during Dec. 13 event.
![Innovation Lab](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/IGI_g2e.jpg?itok=4b9aZiCZ)
UNLV class brings student-developed ideas to the market at the Global Gaming Expo trade show.
![Milton Bradley & Co. lithograph](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/Milton%20Bradley%20Springfield%20copy.png?itok=OCPMCKGB)
Research connects the material legacy of gambling in the Renaissance with contemporary board and card games.
![esports gaming arena](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/eSports-Librarystory.jpg?itok=q4YjLXqH)
Card players, sports bettors and pool hustlers used to be the only ones playing games professionally. Now esports joins the fray.
![Illustration of several people playing video games](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/esports_feature_opener.jpg?itok=Ivcv6O81)
Esports is moving from huddles around a computer to becoming the next big spectator sport — and resorts are betting that it’ll bring Millennials into casinos.
![A woman crossing her arms in front of a slot machine](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/media/image/2023-01/Brett-Abarbanel-D71207-006.jpg?itok=u_kX2Sye)
The relationship between resorts, eSports and the Gaming Control Board is still being fleshed out. UNLV researchers are right there to examine these emerging paradigms.
![Iglesias](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/Iglesias.jpg?itok=ns_dKV1t)
Eadington Lecture looks at how the rise of public relations helped push the casino industry out of its past and into a new era of legitimacy.
![gamblers at a casino](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/Photograph_of_gamblers_at_the_Apache_Casino_Las_Vegas_circa_1930s1940s.jpg?itok=c8F0KaGP)
German historian explores how Las Vegas achieved what cities around the world have not: true distinction as a gaming destination.
![Hotel guests gamble at the slots](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/gamblers_at_the_slots_in_the_Sands_Hotel_Las_Vegas_circa_1950s.jpg?itok=cz22tQae)
How the old papers of an esteemed accountant and the memories of a casino legend chart the shift in the casino model.
![Ai Ja, Min, and Sue Kim](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/Photograph_of_the_Kim_Sisters_Las_Vegas_August_8_1963%20%281%29.jpg?itok=1nqWMHeW)
Long before K-pop, there were the Kim Sisters. Now an Eadington Fellow is exploring what their meteroic rise on Las Vegas entertainment scene has to do with American ideals of beauty, citizenship and capitalism amidst Cold War politics.
![Item from University Libraries Special Collections](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/releases/main-images/nc_D70159_38.jpg?itok=k2wEcGCE)
National Archives grant helps University Libraries' Special Collections Division preserve archival collections on expansion of gaming in America from 1970 to 2010.
![World Series of Poker game](/sites/default/files/styles/768_width/public/articles/main-images/0318_0055BennyPoker.jpg?itok=MyolHhk_)
Eadington Fellow dives into UNLV's archives to examine the relationship between sports media and cultural memory in poker's main event.