The Meaning Behind the PhraseHow Language Evolves in Sports CultureThe phrase "paintball is gay" once worked as a schoolyard dismissal, a direct way to mark the sport as inferior. Words do not stay still. In South African sports culture, language bends around whoever...
The Evolution of Paintball 3D GamingFrom Pixels to Polygons: The Early Days of 3D PaintballIn 1997, nobody complained about pop in because everything was pop in. Those early paintball 3d games rendered entire fields as jagged polygons, and players loved it anyway. We...
The Origins of the SportSix friends armed with surplus guns never expected to create a worldwide phenomenon. In 1981, a group of outdoorsmen including Charles Gaines and Hayes Noel asked a simple question: could a city dweller outsmart a woodsman in a game of...