Win or lose, these games could shape societies and drive tech. Check out OZY’s original series on the future of gaming.

Google "gaming" and the images you’ll most likely see are those of young men wearing headphones, focused on a screen in front of them, seemingly disconnected from the rest of the world. But you might be surprised by the games they’re increasingly playing — and indeed by those playing them.

Welcome to The Future of Gaming, an OZY series designed to prepare you for the shifts that could transform how games are played, what they’re about and those bringing them to you.

Fumblecore games are designed to make you laugh — and fail. That’s what makes them so good.

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.