Female fans and players are finding an esports community — just not in the United States. This is the unexpected future of gaming: Four young Hong Kong women casually dressed in oversize hoodies, each holding a stuffed panda and smiling timidly into the camera. Gaming, as with many sports, has long been dominated by male players. But these women are members of PandaCute, Hong Kong’s first all-female gaming team, founded in October 2016, and — despite the silly name — they’re part of a revolution in Asia’s gaming industry. The rise of women in Asia’s gaming industry is no accident — and, in part, it’s fan driven. In fact, South Korea and China have the highest percentage of hard-core female esports fans in the world, far more than France, the U.K. or the U.S. | 