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Activision Blizzard: More Overwatch League teams are coming this year

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Video game giant Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick said that its Blizzard Entertainment division would announce more teams soon and formally launch its Overwatch League later this year.

The league is the company’s big dive into esports, as Overwatch local team franchises are reportedly selling for $20 million each. The drive to create a professional esports league for the popular game (which has more than 40 million users) represents one of the biggest efforts in the game industry to create a spectator sport on the scale of the NFL or the NBA.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.