ESPL has teamed up with Paytm First Games on mobile esports tournaments.
ESPL has teamed up with Paytm First Games on mobile esports tournaments.
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Paytm First Games teams up with ESPL for mobile esports tournaments in India

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Indian mobile game platform Paytm First Games has teamed up with Esports Players League (ESPL) for mobile esports tournaments in India.

The Singapore-based ESPL has created an esports tournament and media network, starting with esports competitions in Asia. It wants to give amateur gamers a path to becoming professionals, and it announced last fall that it had raised $2 million.

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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.