Luminosity Gaming owns the Overwatch League team Vancouver Titans.

Enthusiast Gaming will be the first game media and influencer company on Nasdaq

Enthusiast Gaming announced that it will become a publicly traded company on the Nasdaq stock market, moving a step up from the Toronto Stock Exchange.

The Toronto-based Enthusiast Gaming aggregates publications, user-generated content, advertisers, events, and influencers that are all about gaming enthusiasm. The company owns a network of 100 web sites such as Destructoid, Nintendo Enthusiast, and The Escapist. It owns more than 1,000 YouTube channels and the Luminosity Gaming esports team. Enthusiast Gaming’s content reaches more than 300 million gamers a month globally, including 65 million mostly millennial and Generation Z gamers in the U.S.

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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.