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Enthusiast Gaming goes public in Canada to build game fan network

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Enthusiast Gaming Holdings, an esports event and online community startup, has gone public through a reverse merger transaction on the TSX Venture Exchange. That helps the company get acquired by a shell company, in this case Tova Ventures, and then rename that entity as Enthusiast Gaming.

Toronto-based Enthusiast Gaming is trading on the the stock ticker symbol “EGLX.”

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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.