ESPORTS FACILITIES AT UA
Three gaming facilities
Zips Gaming Lounge – Williams Honors College
The Zips Gaming Lounge is filled with state-of-the-art gaming PCs and consoles all available for recreation use by UA students. As long as students are in good academic standing, they can bring their classmates for some friendly matches, grind out some competitive games with a buddy or enjoy a AAA title that they may not want to purchase just yet.
- 24 PC Stations
- 5 Console Stations
Zips Esports Center – Jean Hower Taber Student Union
The Zips Esports Center is the central hub for all things esports at The University of Akron. Club esports teams are able to reserve sections of the pC and console stations for their practices and competitions. Unreserved PC and console stations are available for any student in good academic standing to use to play recreationally. The Akron Esports varsity teams also practice out of a computer lab in the center.
- 26 PC Stations
- 10 Console Stations
Akron Esports Arena – InfoCision Stadium
The Akron Esports Arena is the showcase venue for the varsity esports teams. There events are hosted where fans can sit and watch the varsity teams compete in their collegiate leagues against opponents either online or occasionally live and in person at the arena.
Technical Specs
Custom Built Gravity Gaming PCs:
- CPU: i5 12600k
- GPU: Nvidia RTX 4070
- RAM: DDR5 32GB
- Storage: 2TB SSD
Monitor: Viewsonic XG250 280hz .5MS
Keyboard: Corsair K65
Mouse: Corsair M65 Pro RGB
Headset: Corsair HS 60
Chair: AKRacing Premium Gaming Chair
Xbox One S and Xbox Series S
PlayStation 4 Pro and Playstation 5
ASUS
Monitor: VG245H Gaming Monitor – 24” 1080p 1ms
Headset: Corsair HS 60
Chair: AKRacing Premium Gaming Chair
Available Games
All of the gaming facilities come with a large selection of games across PC and console, and many are available to use for free if you don’t own your own account. Check out some of your favorite titles with the highest graphics without sacrificing performance!
Games are free to play or free accounts are provided, unless noted with **.
** = you must purchase your own account.
- Counterstrike: Global Offensive
- Destiny 2
- Diablo 3**
- Dota 2
- Dragonball
- FighterZ
- Fortnite
- Hearthstone
- Injustice 2
- League of Legends
- MapleStory 2
- Minecraft**
- Monster Hunter: World
- Mortal Kombat X
- OSU**
- Overwatch
- Paladins
- Path of Exile
- PUBG
- Rainbow Six Siege
- Rocket League
- Sid Meier’s
- Civilization 6
- Smite
- Starcraft II
- Street Fighter V
- Tabletop Simulator**
- Tekken 7
- Warframe
- Warhammer: Vermintide 2
- World of Warcraft**
PlayStation Plus or Xbox Live accounts are necessary for online play.
PlayStation 4:
- Dragonball FighterZ
- God of War
- Injustice 2
- Madden 19
- Mortal Kombat XL
- NBA 2K19
- Spider-Man
- Street Fighter V
- Tekken 7
Xbox:
- Madden 19
- NBA 2K19
- Red Dead Redemption 2