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Long Beach City College this week opened a new $2.3 million, state-of-the-art eSports center, where students will practice and compete with headphones, keyboard and mouse.

Officials at the center’s opening touted it as the largest facility of its kind in Southern California. Officials hope it will be a boon for students interested in the fast-growing field of video gaming, an industry expected to take in $4.8 billion this year.

“Long Beach City College is proud to lead the way in providing students with access to this rapidly growing multi-billion-dollar esports industry with well-paying jobs,” Uduak-Joe Ntuk, president of the LBCC Board of Trustees, said in a statement.

A former computer lab and nearby room in Building M, just north of Carson Street, now house the lab at LBCC’s Liberal Arts Campus. Construction began a year ago and finished in July, in time to open for students during the 2024 fall semester.

Renovations were funded by Measure LB as well as the college’s capital outlay fund.

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